Chris Helme - Brighouse Heritage
02Nov2022
Another busy week....

A busy week already and it is only Wednesday - Tuesday morning a visit to the members at Calder and Savile Probus Club in Halifax. It was nice to be back after a few years absence. I can still remember speaking to this group for the first time 40 years ago.

31Dec2021
1950s - Kids Home Entertainment

No Console Games, No PC and hardly any TV either

Take away computers, consol gaming, DVD's and 100 channel TV which is available 24 hours a day and you have the 1950s! We had toys, but ours would fit under the bed and not need a separate room to put them in. Our biggest toys were of a natural kind, trees, woods, and our own imagination. Then we had dreams of being a Roy Rogers, Davy Crockett, or Robin Hood, now it's all about celebrity! 

29Dec2021
Occupations our Ancestors would have had.

Old Trades and Jobs are gradually being taken over by modern technology or they are just simply disappearing altogether. Here are some of the old jobs with strange sounding names that you may or may be not remember. This image shows the Night Soil Tub men at work during the 1950s a vital job for centuries.  Night Soil Men would discreetly remove human waste to be used in fertiliser. They would use long-handled shovels to dig out the waste from the makeshift bathrooms, pile it in carts, and haul it away, all in the dead of night. Each 'toilet' needed to be cleaned out about two or three times a year.

Now what about these jobs

1. ARMOURER - made suits of armour or plates of armour for buildings or ships etc.

2. BAGMAN - travelling salesman

3. BARD - poet or minstrel

4. BEAMER - winds the warp on the roller before putting it on the loom in the textile industry

5. CHAIR BODGER - travelling chair repairman

6. CHIFFONIER - wig maker or rag picker

7. CONEY CATCHER - rabbit catcher

8. DOG-WHIPPER - drove dogs away in a village

9. FAGETTER - made up faggots into bundles, seller of firewood

10. GIMLER - machinist involved in making a gimp, a kind of card

 

01Sep2021
Brighouse & District Heritage Newseum No. 14

Issue number 14 of my magazine Brighouse and District Heritage Newseum is now available..

Page 15 of 50

London Light Music Meetings Group

Broadnib Music

Harrison Lord - art, photography, framing

Wigan FM

Wythenshawe Radio 97.2

Brass Band Radio (York)

Tempo FM Wetherby

Phoenix Radio 96.7FM

Preston Hospital Radio

Radio Christmas - Charity Festive Radio Station

Sounds of Brass logo

BAM Web Radio

Drystone Radio

World FM

Radio 88FM

Lionheart Radio 107.3FM

Oldham Community Radio