Chris Helme
From a small hamlet and a bridge, the town of Brighouse in Calderdale grew rapidly with the building of the Calder and Hebble Navigation in the late eighteenth century, which led to the development of the town’s successful textiles industries. £12.99 + £3 p/p - Published 2017
'Brighouse at work' arrived today. I've read my father's chapter, which is great, I look forward to reading the rest of the book. Well done! - Robert N. Fitton....15 September 2017
I would like to say thankyou for creating the book Brighouse At Work. I have read quite a few Historical Books about Calderdale since I took early retirement in October 2016. This has been by far the most enjoyable. The love of the people that worked at the places is what glows from the pages. Thankyou again. - Andrew Binns.....3 December 2018
96 pages of both black and white and coloured images of aspects with views of Brighouse and its surrounding communities displaying scenes of 'then and now'. £12.99 + £3 - Published 2011
Ship Street c 1968 - Below is the same Ship Street - 2010. This street was previously known as Victoria Street as can be seen on the map, which is c1893, I have no information to indicate when the name was chanegd but I doubt whether it would be in Queen Victoria's life time. This street dates back to the early ninteenth century. Further research could even reveal it to be older than that, judging from some evidence I have seen. The origins of the current street name are linked to the Ship Inn, which was on the corner of Canal Street with Ship Sreet and is now the cafe 'The Secret Tea Rooms'. The illustrated 'Old Brighouse' map, which is A3 size can be purchased at the Secret Tea Rooms.
Great news - I have just heard that my 2011 book 'Brighouse Through Time' has been brought back into print by the publishers - Amberley Publishing. This book direct from me is £12.99 + £3 p/p - if your delivery address is nearer enough I will deliver the book and of course that means no p/p.
It is 96 pages of both black and white and coloured images of aspects with views of Brighouse and its surrounding communities displaying scenes of 'then and now'. Whilst some scenes have hardly changed others have changed completely. If you would like to purchase a copy please contact me through the contact page on this website.
Derek Bourgeois, our photograph for this week's show (16.10 1941– 6.9. 2017) was an English composer. After receiving his university education at Magdalene College, Cambridge he spent 2 years at the Royal College of Music, studying composition with Herbert Howells and conducting with Sir Adrian Boult. From 1971 / 84, a lecturer in music at Bristol University, in 1980 he began conducting the Sun Life Band of Bristol, which was his introduction to brass bands.
In 2002 he and his wife settled in Mallorca. Following her death in 2006, he remarried in 2008 and moved to New York City, but returned to the UK in 2009. He has also conducted for various orchestras and was a member of the Music Advisory Panel of the Arts Council. He was a prolific composer for brass bands. His works include two Concerti for Brass Band, the Concerto Grosso, Blitz, Diversions, Serenade, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, and Apocalypse. He has also played the tuba.
Sadly, Derek's death was circulated in the band press this week.
From a small hamlet and a bridge, the town of Brighouse in Calderdale grew rapidly with the building of the Calder and Hebble Navigation in the late eighteenth century, which led to the development of the town’s successful textiles industries.
Looking back to those pre-First World War halcyon days of the annual excursions to what many affectionately knew as ‘…the show ground of the world …’, otherwise known as the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens. The very mention of this magical place will instantly conjure up images of Bank Holidays treats, Sunday School outings and the hustle and bustle of packed railway platforms. The smell of impatiently waiting steam engines bellowing out their thick grey clouds of smoke, the sound of children laughing and shouting in anticipation of the expectant splendour that awaited them at Belle Vue.
Jaime Teixidor Dalmau b:14.04.1884 in Barcelona and d:23.02.1957. He was a Spanish musician, conductor, publisher, and composer.
After studying composition and conducting in Barcelona he joined the army in 1906 as a musician, performing on the saxophone. He became the director of the 68th “Africa” Regiment band in the Spanish city of Melilla on the Moroccan coast. He retired from military service in 1920 after 13 years with this band.
He composed over 500 works. These include marches and pasodobles as well as boleros, foxtrots, jotas, sambas, tangos, schottisches, and waltzes for band.
His best-known composition is Amparito Roca, written in 1925 and first performed in September 1925. The score was published in Madrid in 1925 and in Barcelona 1928. Boosey & Hawkes published this in 1935 in an arrangement by Aubrey Winter (1870–1955).
The one on this week's show is his Bonds of Friendship, a march in the Spanish style.
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