Talk Subjects
Chris Helme
Now here is a real mystery photograph for you. It was taken on the 25 February 1995. It is a narrow passageway which is not there now, in fact the low building on the left and the higher building on the right have been demolished and is now a car park.
The history of the seven-storey building in the distance and to the left dates back to the nineteenth century. This mill was second in size to the huge Alexander Mill in Mill Royd Street which burnt down in October 1903.
For those readers who attended St Martin's School in Church Lane, Brighouse, you might remember being given one of these blotters. They were used for advertising the Yorkshire Bank school accounts that were being promoted through the bank and most local schools.
Don (Jake) Jacoby was born in Pennsylvania in 1920. He began studying the trumpet at the age of six and a half, taught by his uncle. He was a soloist at the age of nine through to when he finished High School at 16. While in school he was featured on Childrens Hour radio in Philadelphia and New York. Aged 16 he entered music college for three years.
He joined a theatre band in Times Square and later joined the Navy where he was chosen as the Star in uniform and performed with Tommy Dorsey.
After the war he moved to Chicago joining Benny Goodman. Not wanting to leave Chicago he became a soloist with ABC playing shows like Ed Sullivan and worked for NBC and later CBS networks.
He was a Conn Clinician teaching and playing all over North America. After 10 years he formed his own band in Dallas. He also spent time teaching. He died in 1992.
His trumpet trio Carnival Variations is on this week's show played by Derek Garside, Brian Cronshaw and Alan Holmes accompanied by the CWS (Manchester) Band conducted by Alex Mortimer.
Please note it does say on the music thast this piece has to be played in under two minutes.
Brighouse Co-op is certainly getting ahead with the opening of its new haiurdressing salon shown here during the late 1960s. There is no indication who the hairdresser is or who his first customer is in the chair. But Walter Bond the General Manager (left) and Clifford Hartley the Co-op Board President watch on, maybe it's their turn next!
Here is just a small section of Park Street. All these business premises have changed not only the tenants/owners but what they sell as well. First on the right is Walter Robinson's electrical shop. This property was built on the site of some very old 19th century properties that were demolished. Robinson's moved to this site after their own shop in Bradford Road near to the junction with Hangram Street was demolished to make way for the new bypass which was built during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Norman Bearcroft is regarded as one of the most prolific composers in The Salvation Army and he continued to write music up until his passing in June 2020. As a young man he joined the British military and became a member of The Life Guards, the regiment that guards the Royal family, where he joined the band as a French Horn player and later became a State Trumpeter for King George VI and served in Germany during WW II.
Norman left his military service to become a Salvation Army officer. In 1960, and was appointed as the National Bandmaster for the British Territory where he directed over 30 territorial music schools in the United Kingdom and around the world. His name is widely known throughout the Salvation Army world and beyond as a conductor, composer of band and vocal music. He passed away on 26 June 2020, and is buried at Kensico Cemetery in, New York in The Salvation Army section.
One of his marches published in 1958 is on this week's show.
(Courtesy of Brookwrightmusic.com)
This photograph of Market Street will take you back 25 may be 30 years. Some readers will be able to remember all these shops. From the right firstly there was Eurocar, some of you might even remember when it was Willart’s, who actually started in Briggate roughly where the entrance is to what was Wilko's. Next is a doubled fronted cafe with the name Shelagh's Cookhouse, but who was Shelagh? Was it a real name or just a trading name?
Aerial view of Brighouse bypass under construction in the early 1970s. It is difficult to imagine just how bad the town centre would be without the bypass.
His old shoe and boot repair shop at the corner of Halifax Road and Upper Green Lane is the modern looking Shizzy's Barbers shop now.
Talks Available
All the presentations are timed to last up to an hour except where shown - questions are gladly taken after the presentation. All have been presented to male, female and mixed audiences of varying age groups.
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A Postcard from the Past
The Sunny Vale Pleasure Gardens, Halifax - Yorkshire’s Alton Towers of the…
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All in a Days Work
Reminiscences from 30 years in the Police Service – (humorous lecture presentation)…
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Legends from the world of Brass Bands
(Info-tainment – digital slides & music) – 1 hour presentation.
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A Week in May
A story based on the Murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish (of the…
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Memories of Christmas Past
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The Road to Publication
In 1979 I was asked to assist in presenting a series of…
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Holiday Memories from the Past
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How we used to live
We have all seen and experienced changes in our lives. Bring back…
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Other Folks Rubbish (Not suited to a Zoom presentation)
With a local history theme… – (thought provoking humorous lecture presentation) –…
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So you want to be a Pirate ? - The life of a Pirate was not all that it seemed
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Superstitions, New Year Resolutions and the Origins of St Valentine's Day
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Brighouse at Work
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