A celebration of Huddersfield’s musical heritage
[1] Musical Home Journal (10 March, 1908): 10
[2] J. Sutcliffe Smith, A Musical Pilgrimage in Yorkshire (Leeds: R. Jackson Ltd, 1925): 202
[3] See entry on the North Stars Steel Orchestra
[4] Huddersfield Weekly Examiner (10 October, 1970)
[5] See, for example, Henry Coward, ‘Yorkshire and Music: A New Assessment of The Divine Art’, Musical Herald, (April, 1918): 332.
[6] See the end tables in David Russell, The Popular Music Societies of the Yorkshire Textile District, 1850-1914: A Study of the Relationships between Music and Society (PhD Thesis, University of York, 1979)
[7] TV Mirror (12 December, 1953)
[8] See, for example, the Huddersfield Daily Examiner (16 December, 1953)
[9] Sydney H. Crowther, Huddersfield Glee and Madrigal Society Centenary, 1875 (Huddersfield: Kirklees Libraries and Museums Service, 1975): 4. (Available online: www.huddersfieldsingers.com). Unless otherwise indicated all material comes from this volume
[10] Huddersfield Chronicle and West Yorkshire Advertiser (4 March, 1876)
[11] See, for example, editorial commentary in the Bolton Chronicle (26 February, 1861)
[12] Carole Pegg, ‘Folk Music’ in Grove Music Online
[13] Dave Laing ‘Folk Music Revival’ in Grove Music Online
[14] For a wide range of photographs see The Brian Lawton Legacy
[15] Huddersfield Examiner (29 January, 2011)
[16] Huddersfield Examiner (29 January, 2011)
[17] Harriet Jordan ‘Public Parks, 1885-1914’ Garden History 22/1 (Summer, 1994): 1
[18] British Bandsman (23 May, 1903): 264
[19] British Bandsman (15 March, 1913): 238
[20] Cornet (band periodical) (15 February, 1900): 4
[21] Brass Band News (1 January, 1901): 1
[22] Many examples of these ‘band suppers’ can be found in all brass band periodicals together with reports in the local press
[23] Huddersfield Daily Chronicle (27 July, 1887)
[24] ‘The Lindley Band History’ Also see this site for contemporary recordings of the band
[25] Leeds Mercury (24 February, 1844)
[26] Huddersfield Chronicle and West Yorkshire Advertiser (9 September, 1854)
[27] Brass Band News (16 July, 1900): 4
[28] Unless otherwise mentioned much material about hand-bell ringing bands can be found in, Peter Fawcett, Ringing for Gold: Hand-Bell Ringing, The Living Tradition, The Annals and Development of Hand-Bell Ringing From Its Birth in the Mid 1500s (Canterbury: Donald and Philip Bedford, 2012)
[29] Dave Russell, ‘Music in Huddersfield, c. 1820-1914’ in Hillary A. Haigh (Ed.) Huddersfield A Most Handsome Town: Aspects of the History and Culture of a West Yorkshire Town (Huddersfield: Kirklees Metropolitan Council Cultural Services, 1992): 653
[30] See press comments in ‘The Bellringer’s March’, arr. Albert Townend, Australasian Tour Commemorative Copy (Huddersfield: J. Wood and Sons, 1912)
[31] Dave Pattern, ‘Joe Perkin and the Holmfirth Anthem’ in Phillip Charlsworth (Ed.) Old West Riding: A Collection of Original Articles (n.p. 1995): 10
[32] See, Rachel E. Milestone, ‘A New Impetus to the Love of Music: The Role of the Town Hall in Nineteenth Century English Musical Culture’ (PhD Thesis, University of Leeds, 2009): 4-6
[33] Leeds Mercury (19 October, 1881)
[34] Cited in The Huddersfield Chronicle and West Yorkshire Advertiser (19 October, 1887)
[35] The Huddersfield Chronicle and West Yorkshire Advertiser (19 October, 1887)
[36] Email correspondence with David Wyld, Managing Director of Henry Willis and Sons, Organ Builders, Liverpool (14 March, 2019)
[37] Huddersfield Daily Examiner (7 March, 1991)
[38] Huddersfield Daily Examiner (7 March, 1991)
[39] Roger Mallinson, Do You Want to Be In A Group: Huddersfield Rock and Roll Groups, 1957-1953 (St Anne’s: Central House Publishing Ltd, 2004): 12
[40] Mallinson, Do You Want to Be In A Group: 10-11
[41] Huddersfield Weekly Examiner (29 March, 1902)
[42] Huddersfield Weekly Examiner (29 March, 1902)
[43] Huddersfield Weekly Examiner (29 March, 1902)
[44] John A. Hargreaves, Sunderland [née Sykes], Susan Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/38430
[45] Hargreaves in ODNB
[46] Hargreaves in ODNB
[47] Slaithwaite Guardian and Colne Valley News (21 January, 1898)
[48] Dave Russell, Popular Music in England, 1846-1914 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991): 208
[49] Letter to the organiser of the Morecambe Music Festival, Canon Gorton, quoted in Musical Times, July 1903, cited in, Dave Russell, Looking North: Northern England and the National Imagination (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004): 207
[50] Huddersfield Weekly Examiner (17 October, 1891)
[51] See North’s obituary in the Huddersfield Chronicle and West Yorkshire Advertiser (17 October, 1891)
[52] BBC News website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-24582739
[53] Unless otherwise stated the references come from Adrian Smith, An Improbable Centenary: The Life and Times of The Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra, 1891-1900 (Huddersfield, 1990)
[54] ‘Arthur Butterworth Obituary’ in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/05/arthur-butterworth
[55] British Bandsman (16 February, 1975) Cutting from ‘The Arthur Butterworth Papers: Publicity’, Royal Northern College of Music Archives, Catalogue Ref: ABW 2/10
[56] RNCM Archives: Programme Notes, Catalogue Ref: ABW/1/84
[57] Mallinson, Do You Want to Be In A Group: 18
[58] See, ‘The Beatles Bible’: https://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/11/29/live-abc-cinema-huddersfield/
[59] See assorted reports in the Huddersfield Weekly Examiner (30-31 November, 1963)
[60] See assorted reports in the Huddersfield Weekly Examiner (30-31 November, 1963)
[61] See ‘Anarchy in Huddersfield: The Day the Sex Pistols Played Santa’ Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/23/sex-pistols-anarachy-film-huddersfield-never-mind-baubles
[62] BBC Feature: ‘The Day the Sex Pistols Came to Huddersfield’: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/features/2004/12/sex_pistols_huddersfield.shtml
[63] Guardian (23 December, 2017)
[64] The book ‘Sound System Culture, Celebrating Huddersfield’s Sound Systems’ was produced by Let’s Go Yorkshire
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