Tales from the past

This page is aimed at giving some details of various Spen Valley news, events and topics of interest from the distant past. 

More stories will be added in due course...

Heckmondwike in 1805 by Dr. Thomas Birkhead Oldfield

Tales of "Old Cleckheaton" by Henry Harrison - The people & places of the mid 1800s (11 parts)

Wedding of the Century - The marriage of "Little Billy" & Ruth Kent (4 Aug 1851)

Rambles on the slopes of Liversedge - An insight to life in the 1870s (10 parts)

Tales from the Grave - Sad case of the abandoned child (6 Jan 1877)

Cleckheaton Town Hall - Laying of the foundation stone (21 Jun 1890)

Cleckheaton Town Hall - The Opening Ceremony (10 Feb 1892) 

Cleckheaton Town Hall - The Clock & The Committee (late 1892)

Marsh Mills Chimney Disaster - The Victims, Inquest & Verdict (24 Feb 1892)

Opening of Cleckheaton Secondary & Technical School (Whitcliffe Mount) (Nov 1910)

Spen Valley Through the Years (1903 - 1932) (10 parts)