From the Courier Archives

years ago

across the globe may be struggling with the economic crisis but a Calderdale savings co-operative is booming. Calderdale Credit Union in Halifax now has more than £1.1 million invested in its accounts and an extra 1,200 members have opened accounts since last March.

Bridge is to be at the centre of a new campaign to bring more tourists to Yorkshire. The town, famed for its radical past, green credentials and Bernard Ingham, will be marketed as a “honeypot” destination for tourists wishing to escape big cities and identikit towns. years ago

with heat-seeking equipment searched among tons of rubble for casualties after a roof collapsed at a Halifax warehouse. About a quarter of the roof of the 100-year-old building at Hamnett Machinery Removals, of Turney Street, Ovenden, collapsed without warning. After a three-hour search firemen said that no one had been trapped.

judge James Pickles is at the centre of a row for jailing a woman who said she was too scared to give evidence against a man accused of beating her up. Her barrister said: “The public may feel this is a mockery. On one hand the man who has allegedly beaten her up walks free and on the other hand the victim is sent to prison.” years ago reaching changes in local government in the West Riding have been proposed. They include the disappearance of several local councils, the takeover by Halifax of much of the builtup area of Sowerby Bridge and the formation of a “Greater Brighouse”. Most of Brighouse and Elland, plus Shelf, part of Spenborough and bits of Huddersfield would form a new county district which would mean the end of urban districts in Elland and Queensbury and Shelf.

second big fire in two months has hit the joinery works of James W Simpson and Son, South Lane, Elland. When Elland firemen reached the works flames 20 ft high were shooting through the roof. Damage is estimated at between £8,000 and £10,000. Experts from the Forensic Science Laboratory are inspecting the scene.