Bygone Marsden (1943) by Lewis B. Whitehead

Description

A downloadable PDF version of Lewis B. Whitehead’s 1943 second edition of “Bygone Marsden” (originally published 1942).

The PDF was prepared from an original edition of the book and the text can be searched.

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The PDF contains 176 pages and has a file size of 55MB.

Also included in the purchase is a ZIP file containing 600 DPI JPEG scans of the ten illustrations in the book:

1. A General View of Present-day Marsden
2. “Planks”
3. Church Lane and the Stocks
4. Old Witnesses, Packhorse Road Trial, April 1908
5. Marsden ‘Old Brig,’ connecting the Waterside with Towngate
6. The Old Church, Infants’ School, and Union Bridge, all now demolished
7. Ottiwells Mill, better known as Kinder’s Mill
8. Towngate
9. Urns Found on Pule Hill
10. Marsden Old Co-operative Stores (‘Th’ Paddock’)

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Contents

• Bygone Marsden (page 13)
• Seventeenth Century (page 14)
• Eighteenth Century (page 24)
• Marsden Manor (page 32)
• The Lords of the Manor (page 33)
• Topical Life in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (page 35)
• The Stocks (page 42)
• Curates and Incumbents of the Parish Church (page 45)
• The Church Day School (page 46)
• The Old Roads (page 47)
• The Packhorse Road Over Clowes Moor (page 52)
• Old Inns — Associations and Traditions (page 57)
• The Bridges (page 61)
• The Standedge Tunnels (page 66)
• The Reservoirs — Their Situation and Surroundings (page 70)
• The Mechanics’ Hall (page 76)
• The Old Mills (page 82)
• Old Friendly Societies (page 91)
• The Iron Foundry and Its Story (page 94)
• Why is Marsden Called Bellas Town? (page 100)
• An Old Marsden Parson (page 105)
• The Wesleyan Chapel (page 110)
• An Early Baptist Communion (page 112)
• The Congregational Church (page 115)
• The Council School — An Historical Summary (page 117)
• The Park (page 118)
• Some Notable Personalities (page 120)
• Marsden Charities (page 124)
• The Musical Life of Marsden (page 126)
• Marsden’s Most Famous Soldier — Major James Grime (page 131)
• Double Murder Committed on the Moors, September 9th, 1903 (page 134)
• Marsden as Hero-Worshipper (page 136)
• Marsden and the Cuckoo Fable (page 140)
• Peacocks and Eagles in Marsden (page 142)
• Our Dialect (page 145)
• Royal Visits (page 146)
• Items of Interest (page 147)

Sample

A sample PDF which includes a selection of pages can be downloaded here if you’d like to “try before you buy”.

Review

Huddersfield Examiner (09/Jan/1943):

This week I have to record the arrival of another notable addition to the shelves where I keep the books which have been written about Huddersfield and district.

The newcomer is “Bygone Marsden,” by Mr. Lewis Buckley Whitehead, a Marsden man bred and born and descendant of an old Marsden family, though he now lives in Huddersfield.

Mr. Whitehead is a man whose interests are literary as well as historical (he is a collector of first editions and close friend of several Northern writers, including Ammon Wrigley, the Saddleworth poet), and so he brings quality to his task of local historian.

The result is a splendid volume of 152 pages, with each particular centre and aspect of local life, be it the church, the inn, the mill, the road, music and so on given its chapter to itself.

There are about thirty-seven of these chapters, so it will be seen that the field is well covered.

Marsden’s link with the famous tunnel through the Pennines and the great reservoirs which supply Huddersfield with water provides two of the most fascinating of these chapters; another I read with much interest tells the story of the struggle to preserve the right of way of the old packhorse trail across Clowes Moor, when the right was challenged in 1908 by the lord of the manor, Sir Joseph P. P. Radcliffe.

Mr. Whitehead was one of those who helped to collect evidence of usage from thirty-three venerable natives of Marsden, and no doubt the contacts then made proved to him that the memories of the old inhabitants are of prime value to the local historian, for in the introduction to his history the author names a number of Marsden worthies whose reminiscences have aided him in compiling his chapters.

“Bygone Marsden” is excellently illustrated with a frontispiece showing a general view of Marsden today, and nine other illustrations, mostly of the Marsden that now merits the title of “Bygone.” The book is well printed by Percy Brothers, Limited, The Hotspur Press Manchester. It is to be had for 5s.