Seeking information about a WWll casualty. Frank Abell was a wireless operator and air gunner in WW2 who is buried at Bergen in the Netherlands. A member of the Dutch voluntary organisation which is researching…
It sometimes seems that Wakefield born author George Gissing is more appreciated abroad than at home. So it is very welcome that one of his books, ‘The Odd Women’, is being dramatized for Radio 4.…
The Local and Family History Group are meeting again following Covid this Autumn at Wakefield Library on the 4th Monday of the month. 1.30 – 3pm. Monday 24th October: ‘The Future of our Family Histories’…
On Saturday, September 17th, Empath will meet with members of the public and help them creatively respond to historical fact files about some of Upper Westgate’s most interesting characters, including discovering a lady on Drury…
Westgate HAZ day at West Yorkshire History Centre for Heritage Open Days on Thursday 15 Sept WHS are holding this Open Day jointly with West Yorkshire Archive Service, aimed at showing what information our Research…
WHS member Lorraine Simpson will be giving a talk to the Wakefield Quakers about the diaries of John Edward Bowman which she has transcribed and we have published. John Bowman was a lifelong and committed…
The group have sent a progress report on their activities. Their first AGM has been held, and they mounted a display when Barbara Phipps gave a talk about Waterton in May. A local textile artist,…
An enquiry to our Society led to the interesting story of a Wakefield man, William Walton, and his link to the famous marble production site of Carrara in Italy. Born in 1796 in Wakefield, in…
Our Society received an enquiry from the school historian at the Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, asking if we could clarify where ‘Old Hall’ Sandal was. Jane Wilson the mother of Edith Ann…
The ‘Sponsor a Box’ is now up and running, to help the John Goodchild Collection housed at the West Yorkshire History Centre be catalogued and preserved for the future. Information from the West Yorkshire Archives:…