Not So Merry WakefieldTalks about the life and times of a Wakefield woman in the late twentieth century with substantial local historical information. This book aims to echo Henry Clarkson's memories of Merry Wakefield (1887), but with more sombre overtones reflecting experiences of single parenthood, and the trauma of a fatal car accident, but with good times too. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Schools | 40 |
Trauma | 62 |
Churches and chapels | 75 |
Institutions and Societies | 90 |
Campaigns successful and unsuccessful | 126 |
Seventy Years of Change | 145 |
Conclusion | 173 |
Common terms and phrases
author’s collection Barnsley became bought bridge building built Calder Caphouse Colliery Cathedral centre century chantry chapel church cinema Civic Society Clarence Park closed club Co—operative College Colliery Committee Councillor County Hall demolished Denby Dale Denby Dale Road Dewsbury Dewsbury Road difficult electricity Electro Convulsive Therapy Enid father fields figure films financed find fire firm first Flanshaw Lane flats floor George girls Gissing Gissing’s Heritage High School Historical Society Horbury Hotel ISBN John Goodchild Kate Taylor Kettlethorpe Kirkgate later Leeds lived Lupset M1 motorway Manygates Methodist mother Newmillerdam Northgate office officer ofWakefield opened Ossett parish Park Pinder’s premises Riding County Council River Calder Sandal Castle Sheffield Silcoates Simon sister Society’s St Andrew’s St John’s St Mary’s Stanley Royd Terrace theatre Thornes took Trust Wakefield Wakefield Corporation Wakefield’s first walk West Riding County West Yorkshire Westgate Wood Street Yorkshire Sculpture Park