KIRKLEES HERITAGE FORUM

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DIRECTORY OF CONTACTS

DISCLAIMER

Every effort has been made to ensure that the listing which follows is comprehensive, correct and up-to-date.

Under each heading, items are listed chronologically. However Huddersfield Local History Society wishes to

stress that cannot admit responsibility for unintended errors or omissions

CONTENTS:.

General works and archives .......................................................................................... 2

Western European communities .................................................................................... 4

Scottish ....................................................................................................................................... 4

Welsh ......................................................................................................................................... 4

Irish ............................................................................................................................................ 5

Austrian ...................................................................................................................................... 6

Belgian ....................................................................................................................................... 6

Bosnian

Czechoslovakian ........................................................................................................................ 7

Danish ........................................................................................................................................ 7

French ........................................................................................................................................ 7

German ....................................................................................................................................... 7

Italian ......................................................................................................................................... 8

Norwegian .................................................................................................................................. 8

Basque ........................................................................................................................................ 8

Jewish ......................................................................................................................................... 9

Travellers/Roma ......................................................................................................................... 9

Post 1945 Central and Eastern Europe ......................................................................... 9

Czech........................................................................................................................................ 10

Latvian ..................................................................................................................................... 10

Polish........................................................................................................................................ 10

Ukrainian.................................................................................................................................. 11

Estonian.................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

African-Caribbean communities .................................................................................. 12

Carriacou .................................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.

Jamaican ................................................................................................................................... 13

Trinidadian ............................................................................................................................... 13

Barbados .................................................................................................................................. 14

Grenada .................................................................................................................................... 14

St Lucian .................................................................................................................................. 14

North American ............................................................................................................ 14

Canada...................................................................................................................................... 14

United States ............................................................................................................................ 14

Asian Communities ...................................................................................................... 14

Chinese ..................................................................................................................................... 15

Indonesian

Vietnamese ............................................................................................................................... 15

Phillippines .............................................................................................................................. 15

South Asian communities ............................................................................................. 15

Bangladeshi .............................................................................................................................. 16

Indian ....................................................................................................................................... 16

Sikh .......................................................................................................................................... 17

Pakistani ................................................................................................................................... 18

Ugandan [Kenyan] Asians ....................................................................................................... 19

Near Eastern communities ........................................................................................... 19

Arabian ..................................................................................................................................... 19

Eritrean ..................................................................................................................................... 19

Ethiopian .................................................................................................................................. 19

Iraqi .......................................................................................................................................... 19

Iranian ...................................................................................................................................... 19

Kurds ........................................................................................................................................ 19

Libyan ...................................................................................................................................... 20

Syrian ....................................................................................................................................... 20

African communities .................................................................................................... 20

Nigerian.................................................................................................................................... 20

Zimbabwean ............................................................................................................................. 20

Asylum Seekers............................................................................................................. 20

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General works and archives

[References in square brackets refer to holdings in the Local History Library].

Huddersfield University Archives: Huddersfield Foreign Library Society, 1851-1870.

Huddersfield University Archives: St Andrew’s Society.

Yorkshire Film Archive:

Huddersfield International Club Opening Night, 1968. 3 minute film. Springwood Adult Education

Centre, ‘The Rainbow Community’. Film No. 428;

Huddersfield and Bradford Demonstrations (1974-1975). Film No. 4527;

National Front Rallies in Huddersfield and Dewsbury (1974-1975). Film No. 4520;

Trevor Burgin and P. Edson, Spring Grove: The Education of Immigrant Children (Institute of Race Relations,

Oxford University Press, 1967. [371.98]

B Jackson, Working Class Community: Some General Notions Raised by a Series of Studies in Northern

England (London, 1968) [323.33]

Robin Oakley ed., New Backgrounds: The Immigrant Child at Home and at School ( Institute of Race Relations,

Oxford University Press, 1968). [Contains references to Spring Grove in final chapter].

Roy Brook, The Story of Huddersfield (Macgibbon & Kee, 1968) pp. 239-40.

Brian Jackson, Childminder: A Study in Acting Research (Routledge, 1979).

Donald Wade, Yorkshire Survey: A Report on Community Relations in Yorkshire (The Yorkshire Committee for

Community Relations, Leeds, 1971).

‘Declaration of Racial Friendship’, Huddersfield Action Committee Against Racism [HACAR], Huddersfield

Daily Examiner, 23 March 1976.

S S Duncan, ‘Housing Disadvantage and Residential Mobility: Immigrants and Institutions in a Northern Town’

[Huddersfield] Working Paper 5, Urban and Regional Studies, (University of Sussex, Brighton, 1977) [B

302.54]

Roger Ballard, The Ethnic Minorities in Kirklees: An Analysis of the 1981 Census (University of Leeds, Leeds)

[301.451042813]

‘Huddersfield’s first major multicultural festival – the Sangam,’ Huddersfield Daily

Examiner, March 1988.

K & A Strickson eds., Stories in a Suitcase: Looking Back and Looking Forward with the People of

Ravensthorpe (Ripponden, 2004) [942.813 Ravensthorpe]

Kirklees MC, Corporate Development Unit, ‘Ethnic Groups in Kirklees’, June 2005

Kirklees Moving Here Stories www.movinghere.org.uk, Accounts of individuals moving to Kirklees, many

recorded in 2006.

Kirklees MC, ‘Mapping Faiths in Kirklees’, [?2007] www.2.kirklees.gov.uk/chil

Brian Haigh, Sue Gillooley, A Century of Huddersfield (Stroud, Sutton, 2007)

Errol Hannon, Huddersfield Voices (Stroud, 2007) [942.813]

Paul Ward. ‘”We have come a long way” – the Labour Party and Ethnicity in West Yorkshire’, Brendan Evans

ed., Sons and Daughters of Labour: A History and Recollection of the Labour Party within the Historic

Boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire, University of Huddersfield Press, 2007.

Graham Thurgood, ‘A History of Nursing in Halifax and Huddersfield, 1870-1960’, University of Huddersfield

PhD thesis, 2008.

Eurofound, ‘Intercultural Policies and Intergroup Relations. Case Study: Kirklees, United Kingdom’, Cities for

Local Integration Policy, 2010. www.eurofound.europa.eu

Migration Yorkshire: Kirklees Local Migration Profile, November 2011.

‘Minority Ethnic Groups’, Kirklees Fact Sheets 2012 www.kirklees.gov.uk/communities/statistics/fact

Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity, University of Manchester, Geographies of Diversity in Kirklees, Evidence

from the 2011 Census www.ethnicity.ac.uk

‘Huddersfield’s Venn Street club gears up for reunion – what are your memories?’ Huddersfield Daily

Examiner, 11 April 2012.

‘First permanent Asia radio station in Kirklees’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 20 April 2014.

‘Dewsbury, Our Town’, Boothroyd Connecting Communities Film Project, 20 June 2014.

‘£100,000 research grant to University of Huddersfield Expert Prof Wendy Webster to study immigration during

World War II’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 16 October 2014.

Professor Mark Ormrod, University of York: lecture to Huddersfield Local History Society, 15 November 2014

on his research project ‘England’s immigrants 1330-1550’ [this will contain some reference to immigrants in

Huddersfield].

Wendy Webster, leader, ‘Mixing It: The Changing Faces of Wartime Britain,’ exhibition at the Imperial War

Museum North,, until September 2016.

Bill Roberts, Cosmopolitan Trail, Discover Huddersfield, 2016.

Ala Sirriyeh, Inhabiting Borders, Routes Home: Youth, Gender, Asylum (Routledge, Abingdon, 2016).

Western European communities

‘Welcome to comrades in arms from eight European countries’, Colne Valley Guardian, 18 June 1943.

Scottish

Huddersfield University Archives: St Andrew’s Society.

Huddersfield St. Andrew’s Society www.huddersfieldstandrewssociey.org.uk

Hilary Marland, Medicine and Society inWakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870 (Cambridge University Press,

1987) [Scottish doctors in Huddersfield}

Ian Morton, ‘Persecuted Scottish Potters?’ Journal of the Huddersfield & District Family History Society, Vol

25 No 1, Oct 2011, p. 21 [early references to Scottish migrants]

Welsh

Huddersfield Welsh Society musicalmargaret@btinternet.com

Maureen Wheeler, ‘Mystery at Netherthong’ [grave of Welshman Dr Thomas James (1817-1879)] Journal of

the Huddersfield and District Family History Society, Vol 29 No 4, July 2016, pp. 32-3.

Irish

Huddersfield Irish Centre www.irishcentre.plus.com History of the Irish League Club in Huddersfield, 1880-

1994.

www.rootswebancestry.com ‘A Brief Synopsis of the Irish in the 41 Districts (plus the Huddersfield Infirmary

and District Model Lodging House) of the 1891 Huddersfield, Yorkshire England Census.

W. Cosgrove, History of the Irish in Huddersfield and District (1902; reprint? Norman Ellis, 1925) [cannot

trace]

A Historical Record of St. Patrick’s Church, Huddersfield, 1832-1932 (Swindlehurst and Nicholson,

Huddersfield, n.d.)

Michael Nolan ‘The Irish in Huddersfield, 1831-1871’, unpublished B.A. dissertation, University of

Huddersfield, December, 1975 [B 301.324]

Hilary Marland, Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield (Cambridge University Press, 1987) [pp.

344-8, cases of typhus fever among Irish living in fifteen lodging house in Huddersfield in the 1820s].

Richard Dennis, ‘The Social Geography of Victorian Huddersfield,’ in E.A. Hilary Haigh ed., Huddersfield: A

Most Handsome Town (Huddersfield, 1992) pp. 428-31.

Anne McCluskey, ‘Irish Women in Huddersfield: A Challenge to Explanations of Women’s Emigration’,

unpublished dissertation, University of Huddersfield, 1993 [B 301.324]

Janice Gilbert, ‘The Irish in Batley, 1841-1881’, unpublished dissertation, no place or date [B 301.324]

Malcolm Clegg, A History of Birstall: The Last 200 years (Otley, 1994) pp. 128-33 ‘A Touch of the Irish’.

Kirklees Moving Here Stories, 2006

John McLoughlin, ‘Irish migration to Huddersfield’ [1960-2006]

Michael Kitterick, ‘Migration from County Mayo to Huddersfield’ [1938-2006]

Michael Kitterick, ‘Life in County Mayo’ [1938-2006]

Tony Lambe, ‘From Dublin to Huddersfield’, [1950-2006]

St Patrick’s Day Parade Committee, ‘Huddersfield St Patrick’s Day Parade’

Trevor Elam, ‘Paddy on the Railway’, Journal of the Huddersfield & District Famiy History Society, 21.4, July

2008, p. 38

Claire Binns, ‘More flesh on the bones’, Journal of the Huddersfield and District Family History Society, Vol

22 No 4 July 2009 pp. 24-6 [Irish ancestry]

‘Our Town, Our Communities, Huddersfield’s Irish Community’,.Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 17 March

2010.

Esther Moriarty, ‘The Great Famine, an Irish tragedy and its impact on the English town of Huddersfield from

1845-1861’, Ph.D. thesis 2010, Huddersfield University.

Alan Stewart-Kaye, ‘Irish Ancestry’, Huddersfield & District Family History Society talk, Batley Town Hall, 9

March 2010.

Esther Moriarty, ‘The Irish in Huddersfield’. Talk to Huddersfield Local History Society, 27 February 2012.

St. Patrick’s Catholic Primary School, 150th

anniversary book, stpats150@yahoo.com

Michael Walsh, ‘Influx of Connemara people to Huddersfield in the 1950s [emails to bill@roberts04.plus.com,

January 2014].

Ros Whittaker, ‘St Patrick’s Roman Catholic School 1832-1894’, Huddersfield Local History Society Journal,

25, 2014/2015, pp. 52-7.

Huddersfield Irish Centre, Unknown Stories behind the Tour de France, Part 2 www.kirkleeslocaltv.com, 2014.

‘Huddersfield England Irish Community mid-19th

Century’, 2014 [refers to many aspects of the Irish

community in Huddersfield in this period] www.rootsweb.ancestry.com

John Lambe, ‘The Irish in Huddersfield’ Discover Huddersfield 21 April 2016

Austrian

Dr Josef Petraczek, ‘The Austrian Chemist’s Private Letters and Photos’ [c. 1883 - ], Heritage Quay archives,

University of Huddersfield.

Belgian ‘Belgian Refugees in Huddersfield’, The Worker, 10 October 1914.

‘Some 324 Belgian refugees in Huddersfield. Aided by Huddersfield Belgian Refugee Sub-committee’

Huddersfield Examiner, November 1914.

Owen Balmforth comp., Jubilee History of the Corporation of Huddersfield. 1868-1918 (Huddersfield 1918),

pp. 86, 88.

‘The Belgian invasion of Huddersfield’. Talk given by Dr Rebecca Gill on Belgian refugees in Huddersfield

r.gill@hud.ac.uk Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 31 March 2014.

Belgian refugees in Thongsbridge, Unknown Stories behind the Tour de France, Part 4

www.kirkleeslocaltv.com, 2014.

P. D. F. O’Brien, Kirklees War Memorials, 1914-2014. Illustration of a tablet expressing the gratitude of the

town of Marsden to Belgian refugees, in Marsden Mechanics’ Hall.

University of Huddersfield, ‘Historian Dr Rebecca Gill welcomes family members of the Belgian WW1

refugee Josephus Van Camp’, December 2014.

‘Intriguing study of Belgian war refugees in Huddersfield’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 18 January 2015.

Janet Green, ‘Belgian refugee married woman from Milnsbridge’, Journal of the Huddersfield and District

Family History Society, Vol 28, No 3, April 2015, pp. 17-18.

Rebecca Gill, ‘”Brave little Belgium” arrives in Hudderfield. . . voluntary action, local politics and the history of

international relief work’, Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora Vol 34.2, 2016, pp. 132-50.

Bosnian Hilal Bosnian Cultural Association, Hyrstlands Road, Batley WF17 7JU

Czechoslovakian Rudi Thraemer,’Why my father left Sudetenland as a refugee’ and ‘Why my family left Sudetenland as refugees

from Hitler in WW2. Part 2 Life in England up to 1965’ Journal of the Huddersfield and District Family

History Society.Vol 22 No 4, pp. 41-3; Vol 23 No 1, pp. 31-3 [ethramer@talktalk.net]

Frank Grombir, ‘Helping the victims of Nazi oppression: the refugees from Czechoslovakia in Huddersfield’.

Talk given to Huddersfield Local History Society, 27 January 2014.

Danish W.G. Collingwood, Angles, Danes and Norse in the District of Huddersfield, Tolson Museum Booklets,

Huddersfield, 1929.

Kirklees Council, ‘The Pen-Den Trail’ [Denby Dale]

French

D.F.E. Sykes,, The Huguenot Ancestry of the Mallalieus of Saddleworth (1920) [A 920 MAL]

Huddersfield French Circle, www.huddersfieldfrenchcircle.org.uk

German

Huddersfield German Circle

8 Hill Grove Lea, Salendine Nook,

Huddersfield HD3 3YD

Alan Cardwell ‘My German connections’, Journal of the Huddersfield and District Family History Society Part

1, Vol 23 No 1, October 2009 pp.17-19; Part 2, ibid. Vol 23 No 2 pp. 17-20. [Family members went to Gruben

in Brandenburg, Germany. He had ancestors and relations who were combatants on both sides during both

World Wars]. agcardwell@yahoo.co.uk

Fretchfield Frobisher, ‘A Small Trader in WW1’ Journal of the Huddersfield and District Family History

Society Vol 23 No. 1, pp. 36-7 [Suspicion of people with German-sounding names – J Michelbacher, a pork

butcher, looking for premises in Lockwood].

Article about Fritz Polzin, formerly of SS, held as a POW at Stirley Hill, near Castle Hill. Married a local girl,

Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 15 January 2010.

‘Readers share their memories of Huddersfield’s prisoner of war camps.’ Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 19

January 2010,

Vivien Nicholson ‘Shoddy Farms or ”Through Rags to Riches” Journal of the Huddersfield and District Family

History Society, Vol 24 No 1, October 2010, p. 21. [Link between Batley and Germany in shoddy

manufacture].

Article about a boy, Anthony Dewhirst, finding a stone in Meltham marked ‘PA POW 1945’. Huddersfield

Daily Examiner, 4 October 2010.

‘Huddersfield German Circle Going from Strength to Strength’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner 9 February 2012.

David Cockman, ‘In Search of Martha’, Huddersfield Local History Society Journal, 23, May 2012, pp.27-30.

David Cockman, ‘ In Search of Martha Stocks - Part Two’, Huddersfield Local History Society Journal, 24,

May 2013, pp.9-13.

David Cockman, ‘An Encounter in Lutzschena: An Intriguing Footnote on the Search for Martha Stocks’,

Huddersfield Local History Society Journal, 24, May 2013, pp.14-19.

David Griffiths, ‘Another German Connection – Joseph Brook of Greenhead’, Huddersfield Local History

Society Journal, 24, May 2013, pp.20-1.

David Cockman, ‘In Search of Martha Stocks’. Talk given to Huddersfield Local History Society, 30

September, 2013.

Italian ‘With the “Census Man” A visit to a slum district – some sad and sickening scenes’, Dewsbury Reporter, 8

April 1911, quoted in Huddersfield & District Family History Society Journal, 22.3, April 2009, pp. 16-18. [An

‘Italian colony’ in ? Dewsbury]

Italian POWs held at Stirley Hill.

43 Italian POWs in Huddersfield Huddersfield Weekly Examiner, 2 December 1944.

Friends of Greenhead Park, Greenhead Park Stories, ‘I scream, you scream’, The Coletta family’s ice cream

business www.greenheadstories.co.uk

Da Sandro Restaurant, Unknown Stories behind the Tour de France, Part 1 www.kirkleeslocaltv.com, 2014.

Norwegian W.G. Collingwood, Angles, Danes and Norse in the District of Huddersfield, Tolson Museum Booklets,

Huddersfield, 1929.

Scandinavian

Walter E. Haigh, A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Hudderfield District, foreword by J.R.R. Tolkien

(London, Oxford University Press, 1928).

Kirklees Anglo-Scandinavian Society

Basque ‘Basque children: Huddersfield Contingent Arriving Today’, Yorkshire Post, 28 September, 1937.

Alan Brooke, ‘Basque Refugees in Huddersfield 1937-1939’, Underground Histories,

www.undergroundhistories.wordpress.com

Alan Brooke about the Basque refugees who arrived in Britain in 1937. Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 3 October

2012.

Carmen Kilner Sanchez, Talk to Huddersfield Local History Society ‘The Basque Children in Almondbury and

West Yorkshire’, 29 October 2012. carmen@basquechildren.org; www.basquechildren.org

Alan Brooke, ‘Aid for Spain’, Huddersfield Local History Society Journal, 24, May 2013, pp. 22-31.

‘Spanish Civil War refugee set to appear at plaque unveiling at an Almondbury house he called home’,

Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 26 November 2013.

Jewish

J. Buckman, Immigrants and the class struggle: The Jewish immigration in Leeds 1880-1914 (Manchester

University Press, 1983).

Jewish Community and Records. Small Jewish community in Huddersfield, synagogue in Northumberland St.,

and, from 1940s, 11 Albion St. Stopped in about 1970.

Diane Langleben [nee Friend], ‘Pesach – Memories of a life in the sticks’. Copy with bill@roberts04.plus.com

David Gronow, ‘Albert Rosenfeld’, Huddersfield Rugby League Heritage, www.huddersfieldrlheritage.co.uk

‘One man’s quest to find Huddersfield’s “hidden Jews”’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 9 May 2008.

Anne C. Brook, ‘A Communal History of Jews in Huddersfield’, Huddersfield Local History Society Journal

25, 2014/2015, pp. 9-17.

Anne C. Brook, ‘Mark Freedman and the early cinema in Huddersfield’, Huddersfield Local History Society

Journal 26, 2015/2016, pp. 9-14.

Nigel Grizzard, ‘Politics, Textiles and Rugby League – The Jews of Huddersfield’, Jewish Heritage Walking

Tour, 25 May 2014 and onwards. ‘Politics, Textiles and Rugby League – The Jews of Huddersfield’,

kirkleeslocaltv.com 26 June 2014.

Dr Anne Brook, ‘A History of Huddersfield’s Jewish Community’, Huddersfield Local History Society lecture,

24 April 2017.

Travellers/Roma

‘Visit of a Gipsy Queen - Death in the Camp’ The Huddersfield Chronicle and West Yorkshire Advertiser, 17

March 1866,

Row over choice of Jake Bowers as speaker on Gypsies and Travellers. Huddersfield has a ‘large population of

settled gypsies’. Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 10 October 2009.

‘[Hungarian] Roma children from Old Bank School, Mirfield, prepare for Holocaust memorial event’.

Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 5 November 2011.

Post 1945 Central and Eastern Europe

Frank Grombir ‘Polishing Up Their English: The Coming of East Europeans into the Huddersfield Area’ Talk

given to the Huddersfield Lunchtime Club, 16 November 2011.

Frank Grombir, ‘”Brief Encounters”: Baltic Hospital Workers in and around Huddersfield, 1946-1951’

Huddersfield Local History Society Journal, 23, May 2012, pp. 51-8.

Frank Grombir, ‘European Exile Communities Trail’, Discover Huddersfield, 2015.

Czech

George Jokl, ‘No English Blood’ in Robin Crawshaw comp. and ed., The Class of ’58 (Just Print IT!

Huntingdon 2008). Local Studies Library 920.973 [Mirfield Grammar School].

‘Czech fans flying flag for homeland’ Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 15 June 2012 [Frank Grombir].

Frank Grombir,’Czech Me Out! Introducing next year’s Journal Editor’, Huddersfield Local History Society

Journal No 27,2016/2017 pp. 77-82.

Estonian

Frank Grombir, ‘”Brief Encounters”: Baltic Hospital Workers in and around Huddersfield, 1946-1951’

Huddersfield Local History Society Journal 23, May 2012, pp. 51-8.

Estonian nurses working in Holme Valley Memorial Hospital, Unknown Stories behind the Tour de France,

Part 4 www.kirkleeslocaltv.com, 2014.

Latvian

Latvian Club

1 Belmont Street

Huddersfield HD1 5BZ

Huddersfield Latvian Welfare Fund

Frank Grombir, ‘”Brief Encounters”: Baltic Hospital Workers in and around Huddersfield, 1946-1951’

Huddersfield Local History Society Journal, 23, May 2012, pp. 51-8.

Polish

Polish Catholic Centre Club,

88 Fitzwilliam St.,

Huddersfield HD1 5BB

West Yorkshire Archives: Employment of Polish Labour, WYAS WYK1334/5/1/6

Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 23 April 1956

Kirklees Sound Archive, Polish Community in Kirklees (Huddersfield, 1988)

A Nocon, ‘A reluctant welcome? Poles in Britain in the 1940’, Oral History, 24, (1996), pp. 79-87.

Jan V Derych, My Twentieth Century: A Survivor’s Story (Castleford, 2001) [B920 DER]

Beryl Kozak, The Middle Years: Family Life, 1950s-1980s (Barton Print, n.p. c. 2001) [KCC 920 KOZ]

Kirklees Moving Here Stories [2006]

Anna Mankowska, ‘Poland during the War’, [1940-1949]

Anna Mankowska, ‘From Poland to Cannon Hall’ [1940-2006]

Janina Stanowska, ‘The Second World War I Poland’, [1920-1949]

Janina Stanowska, ‘Coming to the UK via the Army’, [1940-1959]

Waclaw Mankowski, ‘Moving to the UK from Poland after the War’ [1940-1989]

V Teasdale., Huddersfield Mill Memories: An Oral History (Barnsley, 2006) pp. 41-52, [two Polish

autobiographies]

‘The Poles: za wolnosc wasja i nasja’, in Errol Hannon, Huddersfield Voices, (Tempus, 2007), pp. 115-22.

Tony Sosna, Formation of the Polish Parish and Parish Centre in Huddersfield (Huddersfield, 2007) [282.438]

Stephen Wade, ‘”The Forgotten People of Huddersfield” Citizens of the Polish Community’ in Stephen Wade

ed., Aspects of Huddersfield: Discovering Local History 2, (Wharncliffe Books, Barnsley, 2008) [942.813] pp.

91-8.

Frank Grombir, ‘Huddersfield Polonia, 1948-1968: Workers, Political Emigres and Devoted Worshippers’,

Unpublished BA Dissertation, University of Huddersfield, 2010.

Frank Grombir ‘A Brief Guide Around Polish Heritage Places in Huddersfield’.

‘Rural camp roots for Polish church’ Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 25 July 2012.

‘Family History: Smiles for Huddersfield’s Polish Paratroopers.’ Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 2 November

2012.

Our Lady of Czestowa Polish Roman Catholic Church, Unknown Stories behind the Tour de France, Part 2

www.kirkleeslocaltv.com, 2014.

‘Photos capture Ukrainian and Polish communities in Huddersfield many years ago,’ Huddersfield Daily

Examiner, 6 May 2015.

Ukrainian

Ukrainian Social Club

7 Edgerton Rd.,

Huddersfield HD1 5RA

Correspondence and photographs relating to the Ukrainian community kept at the club.

David White, ‘The Ukes of Halifax’, New Society 12 June 1980.

Albert Hunt, ‘Bitter in Yorkshire’ [Ukrainian community in Bradford] New Society 21 Nov 1986.

Peter Davies, ‘Thousands pass it every day on their way to and from the M62, but here’s the story of

Huddersfield’s Ukrainian Club’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 17 August 2011.

Frank Grombir ‘Polishing Up Their English: The Coming of East Europeans into the Huddersfield Area’ Talk

given to the Huddersfield Lunchtime Club, 16 Nov 2011.

Frank Grombir: Talks with first generation Ukrainian immigrants. YouTube, 6 May 2012.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMveyY5pyXA

The Ukrainian Club, Unknown Stories behind the Tour de France, Part 1 www.kirkleeslocaltv.com, 2014.

Frank Grombir, ‘”Brief Encounters”: Baltic Hospital Workers in and around Huddersfield, 1946-1951’

Huddersfield Local History Society Journal, 23, May 2012, pp. 51-8.

Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, Huddersfield Branch. www.huddersfieldukrainians.co.uk

African-Caribbean communities

Huddersfield African-Caribbean Cultural Trust

Huddawi Centre,

Great Northern Street,

Huddersfield HD1 6BG

Elim Pentecostal Church, www.huddelim.org.uk/about-us

Rastafarianism: Rasta Men Women and Their Beliefs (Kirklees, n.d.) [B 299.6]

Lionel Morrison, As They See It: A Race Relations Study of Three Areas from a Black Viewpoint, (London,

Community Relation Commission, 1976) [B 301.4]

Pat Lewis & Rabia Patel, ‘With One Voice: Black Women in West Yorkshire Talk about their Working Lives’

(Batley, West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit, 1987) [A 301.324]

Moving Here: Kirklees Museums and Galleries

Huddersfield Carnival Committee, 2006

Jackie Morgan, Interpretation of Carnival, 2006

Huddersfield Carnival Memories, 2006

Amanda Huxtable, Definitions of identity and family heritage

Amanda Huxtable, Migration from the Caribbean from a Second Generation Perspective

Laura Hamlet, ‘North Stars Steel Orchestra in Huddersfield’ [1990-2006]

Marcia Hutchinson ed., The Journey, Foreword by Stephen Wade (Primary Colours, Huddersfield, An Abacus

Project, 1999).

‘How the founders of Huddersfield’s Caribbean community thrived’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 20

December 2010.

Abacus Association, African Caribbean arts and education charity, Huddersfield. Records including minutes

etc., 1999-2006. West Yorkshire Archives WYK1538.

‘Voices from the African Caribbean Diaspora’, University of Huddersfield, 6 November 2013

Venn Street Reunion, Part 1 & 2, www.kirkleeslocal.com 25 March 2014.

‘Caribbean through the Lens’, www.kirkleeslocaltv.com 21 May 2014.

Paul Ward, (2014) ‘Foreword’. In: Sound System Culture: Celebrating Huddersfield's Sound Systems,

(London, UK: One Love Books, 2014).

RanX Night Club, Unknown Stories behind the Tour de France, Part 4 www.kirkleeslocaltv.com, 2014.

‘Huddersfield Black Community Awards celebrate town’s African and Caribbean heroes’, Huddersfield Daily

Examiner, 16 November 2015.

‘New town trail to spotlight Huddersfield’s Caribbean heritage’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 9 January

2016.

Denzil Nurse, Natalie Pinnock-Hamilton and Heather Nicholson, Caribbean Heritage Trail . Discover

Huddersfield, 2016.

Huddersfield Carnival 2017 www.huddersfieldcarnival.co.uk

Natalie Pinnock-Hamilton, ‘The History of the African Caribbean Community in Huddersfield’, Huddersfield

Local History Society talk, 27 February 2017.

Carriacou

Mackinley’s, 12 Byram Street, Huddersfield.

Jamaican

Marcia Hutchinson, ‘Olivia’s Journey’ [arrival of her mother on the Empire Windrush, made into a musical,

shown at Leeds City Hall].

Alfred Williams and Ray Brown, To Have Is To Know (Yorkshire Art Circus, Castleford, c. 1987) [B 920 WIL]

Kirklees Sound Archive, KSA 032 Afro-Caribbean Prejudice. Jamaican woman who moved to England c. 1951

and trained as a nurse.

Philip Gibson, Learning to Trust, (Primary Colours, Huddersfield, 2001) [B920 GIB]

Conversations in Huddersfield about accent, dialect and attitudes to language – Four Huddersfield residents who

have roots in Jamaica.. BBC Voices www.sounds.bl.uk/Accents

‘Jamaicans plan independence party in Huddersfield’ Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 12 January 2012,

Kirklees Moving Here Stories, 2006:

Eustace Ford, Migration from Jamaica to Huddersfield, 1959-2006

Brenda May Gordon, Migration from Kingston, Jamaica, 1914-1969

‘Jamaicans honoured in Huddersfield’, Jamaican Informatin Service, 26 October 2010.

Mandeep Samra (Heritage Project Manager) Sound System Culture. [Documents the lives of Huddersfield’s first

generation Jamaicans, who laid the foundations of the town’s reggae sound system scene].

Paul Huxtable, Sound System Culture: Celebrating Huddersfield’s Sound Systems, 2014,

mandysamra@hotmail.com

‘The Legacy: What Jamaicans brought to Huddersfield’, www.kirkleeslocaltv.com 18 October 2014.

Jamaican National Council, Huddersfield.

Audley Buckle, History www.audleybuckle.com/history/

‘Jamaican Independence Day Celebration draws a crowd of thousands at Fartown’, Huddersfield Daily

Examiner, 7 August 2016

Trinidadian

Kirklees Moving Here Stories, 2006

George Matheson, ‘Memories of Carnival in Trinidad and Huddersfield’ [1959-2006]

George Matheson, ‘Migration from Trinidad to Huddersfield’[1960-1979]

Barbados

Huddersfield Passenger Transport, West Yorkshire Archives, KX398

Grenada

Kirklees Moving Here Stories, 2006

Lionel Noel, ‘Migration from Grenada’ [1960-2006]

St Lucian Kirklees Moving Here Stories, 2006

James Alcide, Migration to Huddersfield from St Lucia [1950-2006]

North American

Canada John H Rumsby, ‘A Canadian Soldier’s Grave in Upperthong’, Huddersfield Local History Society Journal , 24,

May 2013, pp. 46-52.

John H Rumsby, ‘A Canadian Soldier’s Grave in Upperthong: A Postscript’, Huddersfield Local History Society

Journal , 26, 2015/16, pp. 15-19.

United States ‘Dr George W Brown marries into British textile family, becomes director of historic King’s Mill,’ Ebony, June

1968, p. 106.

Asian Communities

‘First permanent Asia radio station in Kirklees’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 20 April 2014.

Chinese

Huddersfield Chinese Community Centre

2 Claremont St.,

Huddersfield HD1 5BY

[closed before April 2015]

www.huddersfieldchinesecommunitycentre.co.uk/contact.htm [contains a short history of the Chinese

community]

J A G Roberts, China to Chinatown: Chinese Food in the West (Reaktion Books, London, 2002) pp. 178-80.

Kirklees Moving Here Stories, 2006

Chris Sun and Ye Jin, ‘Migration from China to Huddersfield’ [2006]

Joon Asquith, ‘Migration to the UK from Singapore’ [1950-2006]

Judy Cheung, ‘Moving to the UK from the New Territories’ [2003-2006]

Lin Mei Lai, ‘Migration from Hong Kong’ [1960-2006]

Pui Yee Wong, ‘Migration to Huddersfield from Hong Kong’ [[1970-2006]

Sau Lan Tsoi, ‘Chinese migration to the UK’ [1950-2006]

Sui Cheung, ‘Migration from Hong Kong’ [1950-2006]

Sui Cheung, ‘Huddersfield Chinese Community Centre’ [1970-2006]

Sui Cheung ‘Arriving in Huddersfield’ [2006]

Anonymous, ‘Moving from Hong Kong’ [1960-006]

Christine Verguson, ‘Huddersfield’s silent community’, BBC Bradford &West Yorkshire Your Stories, 5

August 2008.

‘Huddersfield’s Chinese community ready to celebrate the year of the snake’ Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 8

February 2013.

‘Huddersfield University students bring Chinese New Year celebrations to the street’, [Huddersfield University

has 1,000 Chinese students, its largest overseas community], 22 February 2015.

Vietnamese Body of a young Vietnamese man, Tuan An Nguyen, who came to UK in 2009, dumped in Lyndon Ave.

Huddersfield Examiner, 14 March 2011.

Phillippines ‘Phillippines appeal by Huddersfield and Calderdale hospital staff,’ Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 6 February

2014.

South Asian communities

Nasim Hasnie, ‘The Way Ahead: A Survey of Asian Youth in Huddersfield’, Huddersfield, Kirklees

Metropolitan Council, 1977.

Sharon Wray, A Pilot Research Study on the Quality of Life, Health Capital of OlderSouth Asian Women living

in West Yorkshire’, University of Huddersfield, Centre for Research in the Social Sciences, November 2009

www.hud.ac.uk/research

Nafhesa Ali, Asian Voices, First Generation Asian Immigrants in Huddersfield,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmNOWXpCU8Q

Nafhesa Ali, Asian Voices: First Generation Migrants (University of Huddersfield, 2010).

Nafhesa Ali, ‘Asian Voices’, Huddersfield Local History Society Journal, 22 May 2011, pp. 7-15.

Tolson Memorial Museum to open a Community Heritage Room. First exhibition Life in Transition – Kirklees’

South Indian community. Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 27 October 2011.

Nafhesa Ali, Asian Voices: From South Asia to Springwood presented at the Oral History Society Conference

‘Creation, Destruction, Memory: Oral History and Regeneration’ Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd July 2011,

University of Sunderland.

Kirklees Council, Connecting Communities Film Project: ‘Heckmondwike, 1st and 2

nd Generation Settlers from

the South Asian Community’ KGB Productions, 2012.

Bangladeshi Huddersfield Bangladeshi Muslim Association [1988-2000]

Kirklees Moving Here Stories

Hafizur Rahman, ‘Moving from Bangladesh to Huddersfield’[1977-2006]

Indian

Indian Workers’ Association

52 Old South Street

Springwood

Huddersfield HD1 4BU

Indian Muslim Welfare Society

Hindu Society of Kirklees and Calderdale,

20 Zetland St.,

HD1 2RA

Al-Hikmah Centre,

28 Track Rd,

Batley

www.imws.org.uk

Mai Bhago Indian Women’s Society

Clare Hill Asian Women’s Society

c/o Muslim Community Centre,

Clare Hill

V Teasdale., Huddersfield Mill Memories: An Oral History (Barnsley, 2006) pp.139-42, [an Indian

autobiography]

Kirklees Moving Here Stories, 2006

Gindi Sarai ‘Gindi Sarai and Migration from India’ [1950-2006]

Mashuda Shaikh, ‘India and Islam’ [1971-2006]

Hardeep Singh Sahota, ‘Vaisakhi in Kirklees’ [1971-2006]

Kiran Bali, ‘A British Hindu perspective’ [1980-2006]

Musa Kasi, ‘Indian migration to Batley’ [1950-2006]

Anita Burman, ‘Migration ad Identity’ [1970-2006]

Anita Burman, ‘Diwali’ [1968-2006]

Guru Datt Bali, ‘Migration to Huddersfield from the Punjab’ [1940-2006]

Guru Datt Bali, ‘Hindu traditions’ [2006]

Nafhesa Ali, Asian Voices: First Generation Migrants (University of Huddersfield, 2010).

‘Life in Transition’, based on lives of Kirklees’ South Indian community. Project led by Yorkshire-based

organisation Manasamitra. First exhibition shown in the Community Heritage Room, Tolson Memorial

Museum, 27 October 2011. [ www.manasamitra.com]

‘Indian Independence and British Identity’, Huddersfield Women’s Federation for World Peace, 19 August 2012

www.wfwp.org.uk

Nafhesa Ali, ‘Asian Voices: The First Generation Migration’, talk given to Huddersfield Local History Society,

22 April 2013

Hardeep Sahota, Bhangra Renaissance Project. University of Huddersfield with Heritage Lottery Fund support.

[Research into the origins and heritage of the dance form of Bhangra, with reference to communities in

Kirklees].

Hardeep Singh Sahota, Bhangra: Mystics, Music and Migration [Huddersfield University Press, 2014]

Amarjit Singh, Indian Diaspora: Voices of Grandparents and Grandparenting (Sense Publications, 2016..

Sikh

Sikh Leisure Centre

Prospect Centre

Huddersfield HD1 2NX

sikhleisurecentre@hotmail.co.uk

Constitution of Sikh Temple [B 301.324]

Singh Janjua Harbhajan, Sikh Temples in the U.K.: The People Behind Their Management (Jan Publications,

1976).

Alan G. James, Sikh Children in Britain (Oxford University Press, 1974).

Kirklees Moving Here Stories, 2006

Jaswant Singh Sohanpal [Secretary at the Singh Temple, Prospect Street]

Navdeep Singh Kandola, ‘Western, Sikh and Indian Identity’ 1970-1979 [he is also an

independent filmmaker, navkandola@gmail.com]

Hardeep Sahota, ‘Vaisakhi in Kirklees, 1970-2006’.

‘Jutinder Pal Singh Birdi, Kenyan Sikh now a civil engineer in Huddersfield’ in Errol Hannon ed., Huddersfield

Voices (Tempus, 2007) pp.84-8

‘Huddersfield Sikh community pledges to fund a war memorial to those who served on the frontline’

Huddersfield Daily Examiner 28 November 2012.

Guru Nanak Gurdwara, Unknown Stories behind the Tour de France, Part 3, www.kirkleeslocaltv.com, 2014.

Guru Nanak Gurudwara, www.heritagequay.org/huddersfieldgems/gurudwara

‘Vaisakhi 2016: Sikhs paint Huddersfield town centre orange’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 17 April 2016.

‘Thousands enjoy Sikh Mela in Huddersfield’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 24 July 2016.

Pakistani

The Pakistan Association

2 Hall Ave., Thornton Lodge,

Huddersfield HD1 3NL

jamilakhtar@hotmail.co.uk

Huddersfield Pakistani Community Alliance, www.hpca.org.uk

Pakistan Muslim Welfare Society

Jeremy Lane, WF16 9HN

Kirklees Imams & Mosques Advisory Board [KIMAB] www.kimab.org.uk

Ahmaddiyah Community

Munir Ahmed munir-ahmed@hotmail.co.uk

Madeleine Blakeley, Nahda’s Family’ (Adam & Charles Black, London, 1977 [?301.324]

Mohammed Akram, ‘Far Upon the Mountain: The Experience of a Young Pakistani in Britain’, London,

Community and Race Relations Unit of the British Council of Churches, 1972. [not found]

Kirklees Moving Here Stories, 2006

Abdul Aslam, ‘Migration from Kashmir to Pakistan and then to Huddersfield’ [1950-1969]

Abdul Aslam, ‘From Pakistan to England’ [1952-2006]

Asif Khan, ‘Pakistan, Britain and Identity’ [2006]

Shabana Begum, ‘Childhood Memories’ [1960-1969]

Mumtaz Ali, ‘Migration from Kashmir to Huddersfield’ [2006]

Waseem Riaz, ‘Memories of childhood in the late 70s’ [1975-1979]

Guinaz Banow, ‘Migration identity and cultural diversity’ [1960-2006]

Nafhesa Ali, Asian Voices: First Generation Migrants (University of Huddersfield, 2010).

Pakistan Youth Forum [Huddersfield Pakistan Community Alliance] ‘Desi to Pardesi: The Journey’ [experience

of first generation Pakistani arrivals in Huddersfield and neighbouring town]

www.hpca.org.uk/publications/Desi_to_Pardesi

Iram Ali, ‘Experiences of life in Britain: Young British Muslim women negotiating their identities’, University

of Huddersfield, Masters by research, 2012.

Razia Parveen, ‘Recipes and songs as tools for solidarity: women’s oral texts, diaspora and communal identity.’

University of Huddersfield Ph.D. dissertation, 2013.

‘First Asian shop goes into third generation: Family celebrates 50 years’ and ‘Tribute to Mr Sadiq’,

Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 31 August and 7 September 2013. [Punjab Stores, Springwood]

Punjab Stores, Unknown Stories behind the Tour de France, Part 3 www.kirkleeslocaltv.com, 2014.

‘Shock, grief and dismay in Dewsbury over its own boy bomber’, The Guardian, 16 June 2015.

Waseem Riaz, ‘Three Job Offers in One Day’, Huddersfield Local History Society Journal No 27, 2016/2017,

pp. 83-93.

Razia Parveen, Recipes and Songs: An Analysis of Cultural Practices from South Asia (Palgrave Macmillan,

2017).

Ugandan [Kenyan] Asians

‘Jutinder Pal Singh Birdi, Kenyan Sikh now a civil engineer in Huddersfield’ in Errol Hannon ed., Huddersfield

Voices (Tempus, 2007) pp.84-8.

Near Eastern communities

Arabian

Huddersfield Arabian Association

Eritrean ‘Huddersfield Church member Daniel Habtey’s incredible journey from Eritrea’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner,

3 March, 2014.

‘A migrant story of hope’, Yorkshire Post, 7 November 2014.

Eritrean Fellowship. Elim Pentecostal Church.

Ethiopian ‘Hundreds of worshippers from Ethiopia and Eritrea celebrate their faith at Huddersfield Parish Church’,

Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 23 August, 2015.

Iraqi ‘How does an Iraqi refugee come to set up a Polish shop in Huddersfield?’ Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 23

August 2011.

Iranian ‘Faith’s fear of Iran “persecution”’, [Huddersfield members of the Bah’ai faith] Huddersfield Daily Examiner,

20 April 2006.

Kurds

Kirklees Kurdish Forum

Summiya Mitha, tel. 01484 482182, summiya.mitha@kirklees’gov.uk; Sarwat Durbani sarwat@hotmail.com

Kurdish Cabinet of Curiosities. Tolson Memorial Museum, 12 May 2009.

‘Huddersfield’s Kurdish community remembers Halabja’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 26 March 2010.

‘Life in the Kurdish commuity’, www.kirkleeslocaltv 28 March 2013.

‘Kurdish protesters gather in Huddersfield to support war against ISIS’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 26

October 2014.

‘Kurdish community holds memorial service to commemorate massacre at Halabja’, www.kirkleeslocaltv 15

March 2015.

Libyan ‘Libyans in Huddersfield celebrate freedom at St George’s Square’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 25 October

2011.

Syrian ‘Family and Health: Doctor flees from Syria to new home in Huddersfield’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 13

March 2013.

‘The whole world should help these people: Syrian refugees living in Huddersfield’, Huddersfield Daily

Examiner, 5 September 2015.

‘First Syrian refugees arrive in Kirklees – 550 expected in West Yorkshire,’ Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 17

December 2015

African communities

Nigerian University celebrates Nigerian Independence Day’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 3 October 2012.

Zimbabwean

‘New skills challenge for Zimbabweans in Huddersfield’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 8 December 2011,

‘New Mother’s Union Branch including Zimbabwean members at St Peter’s, Huddersfield’, Diocese of Leeds,

2016.

Asylum Seekers

Ian Warwick, Ruth Neville and Kate Smith, My life in Huddersfield: Supporting young asylum seekers and

refugees to record their experience of living in Huddersfield. Social Work Education, 25 (2) pp. 19-137. ISSN

0261-5479.

‘New Guide for Huddersfield’s asylum seekers’ Town of Sanctuary Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 2 April

2012.

‘Kirklees councillors back bid to support destitute asylum seekers’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 18 January

2014.

‘Take a look at life through the eyes of Huddersfield’s asylum seekers’, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 22

January 2015.

DASH [Destitute Asylum Seekers Huddersfield] 30 New North Road, Huddersfield HD1 5JY.

Bill Roberts

February 2017