FROM ROYDS HALL, THROUGH TOWN CENTRE TO NEWSOME-HUDDERSFIELD

[@surayasattar5092]

Hi alma what a wonderful beautiful video brings back memories. Looking at this awesome video thank you my friend showing this beautiful video I miss all these beautiful roads and streets my gorgeous friend allah bless you and your beautiful family take care my friend stay safe happy and healthy goodnight my friend sweet dreams 🛌 have wonderful happy day tomorrow big hugs my friend 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@almafromengland8697]

Dear friend Suraya, it's such a joy to read your message. I filmed this school because I was asked by one of my subscribers to film it. The person who asked me lives in other country and misses Huddersfield. Dear Suraya, do you miss Huddersfield?? When did you move to Scotland? Is it easier for you there? How is the weather there? What do you miss the most in Huddersfield? Thank you very much for watching my video. I wish you and your nice family a wonderful week and I send you a big hug and my love from Huddersfield. ♡♡♡♡♡

[@flyingscotsman7914]

I like the second movement of Mozart’s A Little Night Music best. 😎 It’s been a long time since I have been swimming as it was before the pandemic so I will go to Huddersfield Leisure Centre for a swim after I will book it to beat the children in the summer holiday on Monday as I like water slides as we know, swimming is tiring but good exercise but walking is the most important exercise as we have been walking daily during the lockdowns. It’s a very good JD Wetherspoon’s pub is The Cherry Tree. It’s lucky about Wimpy still open. 🍔

[@mikeswift6713]

WOW, inevitable when you drive around Huddersfield but you’ve done it again. I don’t know if you are aware but Royds Hall before it was a school was a military hospital during World War One, My maternal grandfather was born in Castleford and in the Great War was in the Royal Artillery at the battle of the Somme, he was wounded on the 7th day and evacuated to Royds Hall hospital. As walking wounded during convalescence he would have known Paddock and Milnsbridge well, on returning to action he ended up in Palestine. In the mid 1930’s the whole family, including his 16 year old daughter, moved to the Manchester road area of Milnsbridge where he worked as a boiler man at Crowther’s mill, maybe as he knew the area from his time at Royds Hall. In 1938 his daughter met and was courted by a young man from Slowit, he served in the navy in World War Two and they were married in 1941 while his ship was undergoing a refit in Hull. I arrived in 1946, you could say I owe my existence to a German soldier who couldn’t shoot straight, it’s a funny old world. P.S. my grandma, his wife, worked at the Barnbow munitions factory in Leeds during WW1 supplying shells which granddad may have fired in the Royal Artillery.

[@almafromengland8697]

What a fantastic history lesson for me and for everybody who reads it. You are a real treasure for all of us. The way you describe people and facts is remarcable. You associate events with places and bring tears in our eyes with your stories. We didn't know the history of Roy's Hall. Only that it was Harold Wilson's school along with Crow Lane Junior School in Milnsbridge. He also lived in Manchester Road in his childhood. My husband also owe his existence to Germans. In his case, his grandad and the grandad 2 brothers survived the first gas attack on May the 5th 1915, at Ypres. They also survived to work at Jowett car factory turning shell cases in the World War II. The impact of all these stories to my soul is indescribable. I learn so much from you and I'm so happy when I find more interesting things about the place where I live. How do you find Huddersfield since you left our town? Which school did you go to? Thank you again for watching my video and thank you for this comprehensive message. Have a wonderful week.♡♡♡

[@mikeswift6713]

Kirkheaton is only 3 or four miles from Huddersfield but I haven’t been round the town for 5 years or so except to taxi my wife to the bottom side of St. Peters garden when she is a Lady Who Lunches with her childhood friends, I find the town run down and depressing. As for schools you went to the nearest when I was a lad so went to St. Luke’s Church of England school on Manchester Road, New Street and Crow Lane and believe it or not 7 days at Royds Hall. I failed my 11 plus but improved a lot at Crow Lane so was offered a place at Huddersfield Technical College to take my G.C.E. O Levels. Crow Lane changed to a junior school in summer 1961 and the secondary pupils transferred to Royds Hall, being born in September at that time I would have left at Christmas but as the Tech term started 2 weeks after Royds I didn’t transfer, my parents got an angry message that I should have attended Royds until my course at the tech started hence the 7 days, a bit daft but you can’t beat bureaucracy. I know Harold Wilson attended New Street and Royds Hall but I don’t think he went to Crow Lane, his childhood home was on Pickford Street between New Street and Morley Lane. My wife, brother and two of our granddaughters also went to Royds Hall.

[@almafromengland8697]

@@mikeswift6713 Again, such an interesting and fascinating story about your life in this secluded area. Thank you again and again. You are inspirational and a real source of information. Thank you. Your knowledge is probably more correct than my husband's. His information came from Harold Wilson's biography and he may have confused New Street and Crow Lane. My husband's brother and niece also went to Royds Hall. So many coincidences. But are these just coincidences?? You are very correct in saying that Huddersfield now is very depressing. I am so sad about this, knowing this town for almost 30 years. But, this is life. Sad and sometimes painful. Thank you again for this great message. Have a peaceful week.♡♡♡