Latest
April 2017
The Video Archive:
Huddersfield v Hull 1922 Stan Moorhouse benefit match
Huddersfield Heritage Match
Lindley Junior School Boys Choir singing "Hurrah For The Claret And Gold"
Eorl Crabtree on Radio Leeds talking about Harold Wagstaff
Rugby League World Cup 2013 'WOW' Moment
Douglas Clark Story
September 2016
The Oral Archive takes shape:
Lindley Junior School Choir singing "Hurrah For The Claret And Gold"
Fartown legend Tony Johnson on his rugby career
Eorl Crabtree talks about Harold Wagstaff
Diane Calverley talks about being a Rugby Wife
Brian Sanderson talking about, er, Leeds???
David Gronow recollects his earlier generations' rugby
Graeme Sykes' early memories
Ian Van Bellen explains his surname
Jeff Slevin reminiscing about his father, Ted
Leo Booth and that 1962 Cup Final victory
Sadie Booth and her day out at Wembley, 1962
Ken Davy, guiding the Giants
Jennifer Davy, who persuaded Ken
Nancy Beaumont and ladies at Fartown
Maurice Oldroyd meets the Queen
Graeme Buckley on being Big G
David Faiumu - does he mention that swerve?
Keith Burhouse, a saviour of Fartown
Seth, Ken Senior, our 60's GB winger
August 2016
Ally Ford's Scrapbook added
[Sadly, Ally passed away on the 15th August 2016.]
Walter Smith's Scrapbook added
March 2016
Presentation to West Yorkshire Disability Sport of Items Suitable for their Reminiscence Boxes
20 more programmes added.
Alan Sutcliffe's Scrapbook added
Fartown Centenary
Pastime [from 1897]
Rugby League Magazine Articles
Extract from Rugby League Football Book 1962 Challenge Cup Final
Through 56 Years by Stanley Chadwick
October 2015
From the David Gronow Collection [courtesy of the the Gronow family]
Pre-WW1 photos added;
WW1 to WW2 photos added;
WW2 to SL photos added;
SL photos added.
May 2015
"Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants"
"A History Of Huddersfield RLFC"
is now available to buy.
April 2015
The Yorkshireman
September 21st 1895
We challenge any Union stalwart to read to the end of this cutting!
February 2015
Education Resources for Schools
RTF documents have been replaced with Word documents.
January 2015
Education Resources for Schools
Celebration Event
[To mark the end of Phase 1 of the project]
December
Our book, 'Huddersfield In World War 1' available for online purchase.
Photo Galleries totally updated. Find via this link;
More Sketches added;
Players Association's Calendars added;
'Huddersfield In World War 1' Book Launch photos.
Please note
Links to photo galleries below this notice will almost certainly be broken. See the comments in December, above.
November
Check out and pre-order our soon to be launched book 'Huddersfield in World War I' here.
More information about the site's opening page can be found at Radio Leeds' website which features our Harold Wagstaff Trail feature and, from the coming weekend, a feature about our discovery of 'The Salient' trenches newspaper in Kirklees Archive. The Salient, published at Xmas 1915, appears to be a little-known fore-runner to 'The Wipers Times and Salient', the most famous trenches newspaper, published seven weeks later.
September 8
Photos of lapel badges and various caps and medals.
August 18
Photos of Players & Teams updated
Latest
August 6
Pages from the Players' Association's Calendar
[Clicking on a thumbnail will take you to its large image, where you can scroll backwards or forwards through other pages.]
August 5
A century of pages, the first third, from Dave Thorpe's scrapbook
[Clicking on a thumbnail will take you to its large image, where you can scroll backwards or forwards through other pages.]
July 19
Launch of the Wagstaff Trail photos
Launch of the Reminiscence Boxes
'Wagstaff Trail' & 'Huddersfield In WWI Trail' leaflets
July 18
Fartown, 1910-1946, 6
Fartown, 1910-1946, 7
Fartown, 1910-1946, 8
Fartown, 1910-1946, 9
Fartown, 1910-1946, 10
March 13
March 9
March 6
March 4
March 3
A 10-part serialisation of a scrap book which was handed in just as the project was being set up.
Fartown, 1910-1946, 1
March 2
1935 Challenge Cup Souvenir Booklet
Newsome Panthers v St Joseph's, 2006 Holliday Cup Final
February 24
1933 Challenge Cup Final v Warrington programme
Newsome Panthers v St Joseph's, 2009 Holliday Cup Final
February 21
1890 - Hurrah For The Claret & Gold songsheet
1890 - Hurrah For The Claret & Gold songsheet [as copied]
February 20
February 19
1933 Challenge Cup Final Song Sheet
Huddersfield & District League Minutes 1969-70
February 18
1915 v St Helens, Challenge Cup Final programme
Underbank v St Joseph's, 1978 programme
December 26
1946: 7-A-Side tournament at Fartown
1954 v Hull A, Yorkshire Senior Competition Final
1978 v York
November 29
Launch of the Larchwood Cares Homes Sponsorship
November 15
Jeff Smith on Lionel Cooper's 10 tries
November 13
Ken George's film for the opening ceremony of the England v Ireland RLWC2013 game
November 11
Unveiling of The St John's Stone Photos
November 10
World Cup Celebration Day Report
November 3
World Cup Celebration Day Photos
October 23
October 20
Amateur Memories courtesy of the Huddersfield Examiner
A pre-view of the Exhibition at the Tolson Museum
October 18
Huddersfield RL Schools - selected minutes from the 1970s
Frank Dyson Testimonial Programme, 1960
Welcome To Super League
October 17
Huddersfield RL Schools - selected minutes from the 1960s
October 15
Amateur & other Photo Albums updated
October 9
July 31
July
South Crosland Junior School Assembly
We visited an assembly at South Crosland Junior School to give some details of project. [Continued here]
Children's Art and Writing Competitions
The launch of our Children's Art and Writing Competitions at South Crosland Junior School on Monday was successful. [Continued here]
Local Heritage Project - Schools Competition
Oral Interviewing
VOX POPS oral history training company has now completed its work for the project, training 16 adults and 70 children... [Continued here]
Tolson Museum Exhibition
After 15 months of collecting and borrowing memorabilia, interviewing players, officials and supporters, and filming various events, the heritage project is ready to share its findings... [Continued here]
The theme of the exhibition is outlined here.
Collectors' Cards
Two sets of 50 heritage Collectors' Cards will soon be released for sale by the project. The cards are believed to be unique in covering the entire history of one club... [Continued here]
Rugby League World Cup 2013 Celebration Day
The heritage project is working in partnership with Rugby League Cares, the World Cup Projects group and Kirklees MBC to organise the Rugby League World Cup 2013 Celebration Day... [Continued here]
Douglas Clark
An outline of Douglas Clark's life can be found here.
RL World Cup
An outline of World Cups from its inception can be found here.
School Visits
Almondbury High School:
Crosland Moor Junior School;
South Crosland Junior School.
May 18
Ray Markham's Scrapbook - whilst some of you might never have heard of him, it is an absolutely fascinating collection which will enthral you for hours.
Please note that it is a large document and may take a few seconds to appear on your screen.
May 17
1960 to 1962 programmes - follow the team to the Challenge Cup Final
May 12
More HC&AC & Supporters Club Documents
April 25
Ian Thomas's testimonial brochure [link is on this page]
April 19
HC&AC Documents - the start of the collection of the written records of the club
April 18
Part 2 of the Players Association's stock of photos in the University's archive
April 12
Some new photos - including some 'before & after'
March 27
The photo gallery 'Post WW"' has been split into two:
WW2 to Super League;
Super League.
View them via the Players' Photo Gallery home page.
Site statistics updated for the past month
March 25
March 14
A link to the report about the Sporting Memories Match
March 13
A whole host of programmes have been added
Programme Home Page
March 4
Trevor Leathley's Testimonial Brochure
David Schofield's Testimonial Brochure
Year Book - 1969
Year Book - 1970
Year Book - 1981-82
March 3
Glenn Knight's Testimonial Brochure
Dean Mountain's Testimonial Brochure
February 25
Tom Davies's Testimonial Brochure
Jimmy Johnson's Testimonial Brochure
February 25
Peter Cramp's Testimonial Brochure
Derek Wroe's Testimonial Brochure
February 22
Site statistics updated for the past month
February 20
Rugby League Review Season 1948-49
February 17
Rugby League Review Season 1947-48
February 15
Rugby League Review Season 1949-50
February 14
Rugby League Review Season 1946-47
February 9
Douglas Clark testimonial brochure
February 8
Mick Shepherd testimonial brochure
January 31
View the team selections, number of tries, goals, drop goals, and points scored by every player in every match between 1895 to 1994
[reproduced courtesy of the RL Record Keepers' Club And Richard Bailey of the RL Collectors' Federation].
January 27
Updates in the Photo section:
Local Amateur Clubs - Marsh, Netherton, Slaithwaite, Underbank;
Players - Pre WW1, WW1-WW2, Post WW2;
Team - Pre WW1, WW1-WW2, Post WW2;
Sketches.
January 26
Players' Registrations [reproduced courtesy of the Rugby League Archive and the University of Huddersfield] - 1935 to 1936, 1936 to 1937
Players' Records [reproduced courtesy of the RL Record Keepers' Club And Richard Bailey of the RL Collectors' Federation] - 1905 to 1906, 1906 to 1907
An unsorted collection of photos
January 20
Players' Registrations [reproduced courtesy of the Rugby League Archive and the University of Huddersfield] - 1933 to 1934, 1934 to 1935
Year Book - 1966
Players' Records [reproduced courtesy of the RL Record Keepers' Club And Richard Bailey of the RL Collectors' Federation] - 1903 to 1904, 1904 to 1905
January 19
Launch of the News page
Added a 'Post Your Comments' page
January 18
Players' Registrations [reproduced courtesy of the Rugby League Archive and the University of Huddersfield] - 1931 to 1932, 1932 to 1933
Year Book - 1965
Players' Records [reproduced courtesy of the RL Record Keepers' Club And Richard Bailey of the RL Collectors' Federation] - 1901 to 1902, 1902 to 1903
January 17
Players' Registrations [reproduced courtesy of the Rugby League Archive and the University of Huddersfield] - 1928 to 1929, 1929 to 1930
Year Book - 1963
Players' Records [reproduced courtesy of the RL Record Keepers' Club And Richard Bailey of the RL Collectors' Federation] - 1899 to 1900, 1900 to 1901
January 15
Players' Registrations [reproduced courtesy of the Rugby League Archive and the University of Huddersfield] - 1927 to 1928, 1938 to 1939
Year Book - 1961
Players' Records [reproduced courtesy of the RL Record Keepers' Club And Richard Bailey of the RL Collectors' Federation] - 1897 to 1898, 1898 to 1899
January 12
Players' Records [reproduced courtesy of the RL Record Keepers' Club And Richard Bailey of the RL Collectors' Federation] - 1895 to 1896, 1896 to 1897
More information about our Collectors' Cards
January 11
Scanning Guidelines added
See our Visitors page for our site's statistics
January 10
Players' Registrations [reproduced courtesy of the Rugby League Archive and the University of Huddersfield] - 1925 to 1926, 1926 to 1927
Testimonial Brochure - Ted Slevin
Year Book - 1960
January 8
Players' Registrations [reproduced courtesy of the Rugby League Archive and the University of Huddersfield]: 1923 to 1924, 1924 to 1925
Testimonial Brochure: Steve Mullany
Year Book: 1967
January 7
Watch out for the near-future release of the two sets of Collectors' Cards featuring playersfrom 2 centuries ago right up to the present.
January 7
Players' Registrations [reproduced courtesy of the Rugby League Archive and the University of Huddersfield]: 1921 to 1922, 1922 to 1923
Testimonial Brochure: Peter Ramsden
Year Book: 1959
January 5
Players' Registrations [reproduced courtesy of the Rugby League Archive and the University of Huddersfield]: 1920 to 1921, 1937 to 1938
Testimonial Brochure: Don Close Year Book:
1962
January 4
Players' Registrations [reproduced courtesy of the Rugby League Archive and the University of Huddersfield]: 1915 to 1916, 1919 to 1920
Testimonial Brochure: Malcolm Branch
Year Book: 1968
January 3
Programme: 1953 v Wakefield Trinity
Players' Registrations [reproduced courtesy of the Rugby League Archive and the University of Huddersfield]: 1906 to 1909, Testimonial Brochure: Austin Kilroy
Year Book: 1958
December 2
Programmes:
1952 v Hunslet
1954 v Wakefield Trinity
1954 v York
1955 v New Zealand
1956 v Australia
1957 v Oldham
November 28
Souvenir Brochures:
1948 Australian Tour Brochure
1954 World Cup Souvenir Brochure
Supporters' Club Golden Jubilee1971
November 26
Testimonial Brochures:
Ken Bowman
Lionel Cooper
Frank Dyson
Ray Haywood
Johnny Hunter
Russ Pepperell
Stanley Pepperell
November 25
Fixture Cards:
1881-82
1888-89
1889-90
1895
1896-97
1897-98
1898-99
1899-1900
1900-01
1901-02
1902-03
1904-05
1905-06
More information on the Fixture Lists page.
November 23
Videos:
Interview with Bill Boak, grandson of George Boak of the Team Of All Talents
Interview with Catherine Boak & son Robert
Rugby League World Cup 2013 Launch
YouTube Videos
November 22
Programmes:
1935 v Salford
1937 v Wigan
1937 v York
1939 v Halifax
1939 v Keighley
1940 v Featherstone
1941 v Hull
1943 v Dewsbury
1944 v A RL Team
1945 v Barrow
1953 Coronation Year Souvenir Brochure
November 20
Programmes:
1912 v Leeds
1912 v Batley
1914 v Dewsbury
1921 v Australia
1928 v Leeds
1929 v Australia
1930 v Wakefield
1931 v Hunslet
1933 v St Helens Rec
November 10
Jeff Bawden Testimonial Brochure - 1953
Alex Fiddes Testimonial Brochure - 1946
Ben Gronow Testimonial Brochure - 1924
Bob Nicholson Testimonial Brochure - 1951
Ernie Mills Returns to Australia, Examiner cutting
Fartown v St Helens, 1962, Examiner cutting
Huddersfield Barracudas launched!!!
1954 Year Book
1955 Year Book
1956 Year Book
1957 Year Book
1964 Year Book
November 9
Johnny Hunter
George Boak, Jock Forsyth And The Birth Of Rugby League
Jack Bartholomew
November 8
1923 v Swinton programme
1923 v Wakefield programme
1934 v Batley programme
1935 v Oldham programme
November 5
1953 Year Book added.
1909 v Leeds programme
1910 v Leeds programme
1911 v Leeds programme
1913 v Hunslet programme
November 4
1952 Year Book added.
1965 Year Book added.
Press release: About The Project
November 3
Pre World War 1 Team photos added.
Between the World Wars Team photos added.
Post World War 2 Team photos added.
Last Match At Leeds Road, 1996 photos added.
First Match At Stadium, 1992 photos added.
Amateur RL Clubs Around Huddersfield photos added.
29th October
Thoughts on the '53 Wembley Final.
27th October
The following forms are now available for download:
Interviewing A Player;
Interviewing A Supporter;
Digital Recorder Instructions;
FlipPal Scanner Instructions.
26th October
Day off!!!
25th October
The original background discussions to the project.
24th October
Internet Explorer bug fixed!!!
2 players added:
Stanley Moorhouse
Johnny Rodgers
23rd October
1 player added:
Douglas Clark
22nd October
2 players added:
Ben Gronow
Albert Rosenfeld
19th October
3 photo albums added:
Pre-World War 2 Players
Post-World War 2 Players
Players' Sketches
Plus the transcript of Maurice Oldroyd's interview
15th October
In the last few days, many articles and photos have been put online - far too many to mention!
Go to the Written Archive page and scroll down the links on the left - most topics now have articles for you to read.
Rugby League World Cup Launch
This was at the George Hotel. A group of youngster from Scholes Junior & Infant school superbly acted out a never-before scene from theplay 'Brokenb Time'. It showed the meeting in the same room where the document was signed thereby creating the Northern Union.
The photos of the afternoon are here.
The Website
A search facility has been added [see below].
The Website
The following forms are now available for download:
Memorabilia Metadata Record;
Memorabilia Permissions Form.
The Website
We finally have a global presence!
Please be aware that the site only went live on Friday 28th September. Whilst there already is a wealth of information, there are many pages still to be written.
Please be patient.
We now have a Facebook page.
We now Tweet - @HuddsRLHeritage.
Social Media
Training is being organised for those who want to know more about Facebook, Twitter, etc.
