Hinchliffe Mill Liberal Club
The club held a large meeting in
the Ebenezer Chapel at Hinchliffe Mill in October 1885. At that point the chapel
was no longer used as a place of worship but the seating remained and it could accommodate
around 300 people. It was estimated that
at the Liberal meeting there were 250 people present, including Conservatives! The
Huddersfield Chronicle reported that the residents of Hinchliffe Mill were “conspicuous
by their absence” and that the Liberal members had had to drum up support from
Holme and Holmfirth for the event. Mr Priestman of Bradford addressed the crowd
at quite some length and was reported as “evidently wearying his audience.”
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Henry Joseph Wilson, MP.
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Various other prominent Liberals attended the meeting, the most significant being Henry Joseph Wilson MP for Holmfirth, who spoke on the issues of the day and questions were posed by members of the audience. Huddersfield Chronicle 10 October 1885
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| Holmbridge War Memorial |
Hinchliffe Mill Liberal Club and WW1.
Brothers
George Willie and Arthur Howard Dawson
George Willie and Arthur Howard Dawson, were the sons of Firth and Emma Dawson of Austonley near Hinchliffe Mill in the Holme Valley. The two brothers joined the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in different battalions. Arthur was
serving with the 9th Battalion and George was in the 2nd Battalion .
George, aged 23, was killed on the first day of the battle of the
Somme, 1st July 1916. His brother, Arthur Dawson, aged 26, died
six days later on July 7.
Both
men were members of Hinchliffe Mill Liberal Club and played football for
Holmbridge football club. Their names appear
on the Holme and Holmbridge war memorials and on the Thiepval Memorial to the
missing.
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| Holmbridge War Memorial |
References -
www.ancestry.co.uk
