George Hotel, St George’s Square, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, 1850.
By William Wallen & Charles Child.
It was here that the Rugby League was established in 1895.
Grade ll* listed.
The birthplace of Rugby League, 29th August 1895. In this place 21 clubs voted to break away from the Rugby Football Union. In 1922 this became the Rugby Football League.

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St Peter, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Huddersfield Parish Church, 1834-36.
East Window, 1921 (detail - the risen Jesus Christ).
By Ninian Comper (1864-1960).

The lower part of the east window shows a depiction of the risen Jesus Christ, and on his right is St Peter. The other figures are St Mark, St Paul and St Aidan, all representing former daughter churches (now closed).

Sir John Ninian Comper (1864-1960) was a celebrated church architect and furnisher of the Gothic Revival. He was born in Aberdeen in 1864, the son of John Comper, who was an adherent of the Oxford Movement and ordained into the Scottish Episcopal Church. This Anglo-Catholic influence was important, and is clear in Comper's adherence to Gothic. He worked in the offices of Charles Eamer Kempe and Bodley & Garner before establishing his own practice in the late 1880s, initially with William Bucknall (1851-1944). Almost all of his work was ecclesiastical. His trademark strawberry monogram can be found on many of his stained glass windows.

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Bamforth & Co, Station Road, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.
Former warehouse and studio of Bamforth & Co, Fine Art Publishers.

James Bamforth established a business as painter and studio photographer in 1870. Around 1883 he started producing lantern slides. By the late 1890s lantern slides were produced to accompany songs and stories performed in music and variety halls before the advent of the cinema. In 1902 postcards were becoming popular and these were then produced from the negatives of the lantern slides. In the periods 1898 to 1900 and 1913 to 1915 the company had brief success producing comedy films prior to the advent of the Hollywood era. These had a Holmfirth flavour with local people becoming “stars”. During the first World War a wide range of sentimental cards was produced, designed to appeal to those whom the war would separate, some for ever. Bamforths also became popular for comic postcards.

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10-12 Station Road, Batley, West Yorkshire, 1924.
Unlisted.

Jessops Taylors was established in the 1880s by George and Henry Jessop who purchased No 290 Bradford Road, a former cloth warehouse, in the early 1890s. They then extended their mill building back to Rouse Mill Lane in 1900-1910 and extended again adjoining this extension and along Station Road to join up with Nos 2-8 Station Road in 1924. Nos 2-8 Station Road did not become part of Jessops until the 1940s. These properties were built circa 1870 as industrial/warehouse premises and are Grade II listed buildings. The firm traded as Jessops Tailoring Ltd until 1990 and in its hey-day employed 200 people.

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Wellington Street/Nelson Street, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
Former wool textile warehouse, 1873.

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