Exploring the history of the Huddersfield (UK) area. Account run by Dave (Library Systems Manager, University of Huddersfield). https://huddersfield.exposed https://huddersfield.clickhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposedhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mlwdiwhtqs2gIt's been a while since I played with Map Warper, but I've just uploaded coal mine map: https://mapwarper.net/maps/106695#Preview_Rectified_Map_tab Zoom in and out and use the slider to view just where the coal mine workings are below Newsome.15 May 2026 22:02 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwdiwhtqs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mlqiqxpnsk23#doncasterUFOs13 May 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqiqxpnsk23https://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mlqdekones2iIt'll soon be exactly 122 years since a "CLIMATIC OUTRAGE" occurred in the Colne Valley 🫨13 May 2026 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqdekones2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mllgwsc5x222In the Huddersfield area, wool is harvested from sheep who roam deep under the ground #TrueFacts11 May 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllgwsc5x222https://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mlksk6dack2f"My best mate Iain Cheeseman says that he has a LLM which doesn't hallucinate." [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2026 07:59 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlksk6dack2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mldvnqk7fc2bMuch as I'm enjoying the mine plans, it's even better that the older ones often include the historic field names, so I've been geo indexing the heck out of them 😁 [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldvnqk7fc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mldfik4qjs2rMaybe one day I'll get around to finishing off mapping all the streams and waterways in the local area. But it is not this day 😁 https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Category:Rivers_and_streams https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Streams_in_the_Huddersfield_Area08 May 2026 09:17 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldfik4qjs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mlcdpn2dnc2uI've fallen down a literal rabbit hole in the form of a coal hole. datamine-cauk.hub.arcgis.com has lots of "Mine Plans" which are fascinating to browse through. I wonder if the people living in the fancy new houses on Colders Lane, Meltham, know that they're built right on top of a mine?⛏️07 May 2026 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcdpn2dnc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mlaxxbril22oDogs outside polling stations is nothing new. In 1891, milkman George Frederick Laycock was accompanied by a goose named Solomon when he went to vote in Lockwood.07 May 2026 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlaxxbril22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3ml7aijhndc2yTranscribed all the articles I could find on the "Hermit of Old Magnum": https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Charles_Stubley_(1880-1955) [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 17:37 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7aijhndc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3ml56pfencc23There's often nostalgia for the past, but this photo is within living memory. Four women living at Magnum on the moors to the south of Hade Edge traipsing the half mile round trek to fetch water from a stream which was then boiled to make it safe to drink.05 May 2026 21:59 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml56pfencc23https://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mkxlhdutxc2aOne of the more unusual pieces of WW2 research I've done... today is 85 years since Ronald Gibson of Huddersfield was killed in an air raid over Liverpool. What makes it unusual is that he was one of 22 prisoners killed when German bombs fell on Walton Prison. huddersfield.exposed/s/7581003 May 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxlhdutxc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mksj3g6wq22tI suspect there can't be many couples who both served in the Second World War and who died separately. Ernest Leverington married Muriel Clegg at Lockwood on Boxing Day 1932. He died in the Dunkirk evacuation in May 1940. She served in the WAAF and died in a military hospital on 1 May 1945.01 May 2026 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksj3g6wq22thttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mkpixbxnhk2yFinally gotten around to contacting CWGC with evidence that these two records are actually for the same person, whose birth was registered Q2 1885 Huddersfield as "Haman Smith" to parents who were itinerant hawkers with a caravan. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2752355/o-g-smith/ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7532509/amos-smith/30 Apr 2026 11:25 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpixbxnhk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mkpi2mqxrs2rAs someone who's worked on several Jisc funded projects over the years, I've always factored in the exit strategy to try and ensure the outputs remain online in a usable and easily portable format. It should be baked into every publicly-funded project, but seemingly rarely is ☹️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpi2mqxrs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mkmujslcg22c"... we will THOROUGHLY NAIL YOU IN ... and give you the finest fixing up you ever had" 🔨 A newspaper notice from Harry Houdini's second visit to Huddersfield in April 1911.29 Apr 2026 10:15 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmujslcg22chttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mkmsjufnb222If the newspaper archives can be relied upon, Mrs. Sidebottom of Buxton Road, Huddersfield, may have been the last local baker to make funeral biscuits. These varied from one place to another, but seemingly sponge fingers were the preferred variety in Huddersfield.29 Apr 2026 09:39 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmsjufnb222https://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mkkikzanqs25I added Arthur Dyson (1900-1941) to the WW2 Roll of Honour last night. Unfortunately it looks like previous online research has linked him to other people of the same name born in Wales, so a pleasure to restore his links to the Huddersfield area 😊 huddersfield.exposed/s/7948728 Apr 2026 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkikzanqs25https://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mkih5c6fvk2jYummy Bile Beans 🤢27 Apr 2026 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkih5c6fvk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mjvzqukpzk24"Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and shooting turkeys encased in iron boxes in the head from 160 yards away for just 6d per shot."20 Apr 2026 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvzqukpzk24https://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mjtlmreik22dSunday morning so far... ☑️ Huddersfield Exposed MediaWiki upgraded to 1.43.8 ☑️ nginx web server upgraded to 1.29.8 ☑️ OWASP core rule set upgraded to 4.25.0 ☑️ PHP upgraded to 8.5.5 ...time for a cuppa!19 Apr 2026 08:59 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjtlmreik22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mjpbhjfr2c2nPhotograph circa 1900 of the Rev. Cutfield Wardroper, incumbent at Farnley Tyas for 51 years, and his fourth wife Jane McGeoch whom he married when he was a sprightly 86 and she was young enough to be his granddaughter. Died 1905 and reportedly buried in a wicker coffin that he'd had commissioned.17 Apr 2026 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpbhjfr2c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mjoigc4hb22oI suspect the rest of the family wanted to go on holiday to Tenerife, but father overruled them #Scarborough17 Apr 2026 08:18 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjoigc4hb22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mjh46goa7s2nOdd the things that give me pleasure, but it's great to see that NLS have made a much better quality version of the first series Yorkshire 246 six inch sheet available. Back when you could have a game of bowls before catching the train 😀 maps.nls.uk/view/26666565414 Apr 2026 09:50 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjh46goa7s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/huddersfield.exposed/post/3mhvi3ev5uc2hReposting this gem for any budding website designers out there looking for inspiration [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Mar 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:jqm7k6eixagcsvqb2llcvt65/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvi3ev5uc2h