Huddersfield: Home Town Memories in Words and Pictures

HUDDERSFIELD: Home Town Memories in Words and Pictures presents a host of special memories, recollections, anecdotes and timeless photographs, making it a unique reflection of Huddersfield over the years..

Many of the photographs included in this book come from the archive of Kirklees Community History Service which holds the negatives of photographs taken for the Huddersfield Daily Examiner from 1946 to the early 1980s. Earlier photographs come from collections formed by the individual museums in Kirklees.

Browse through pictures of local workplaces, street scenes, local wildlife, landscapes , people and events in history. Even visits from The Queen, Princess Diana and various politicians are included.

These images will stir the memories of those tho have lived through the changes this town has seen, and act as a window to the past for those born towards the end of the last century.

 Many of the people and places which are featured are now long gone - but this book ensures that they will never be forgotten.