Hi Maureen & list Whilst in the area today I thought I would see if there was any trace of Boars Head pub and or yard. I am afraid what must have been the area is covered by a C20th brick built factory building - no trace of either. Regards Roger researching: GILL, BERRY, CHARLESWORTH, ROBINSON in the Holme Valley, south of Huddersfield. > Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:24:26 -0000 > From: "Maureen Mitchell" > Subject: [WRY] Photo of Boar's Head beerhouse/public house - > Moldgreen, Huddersfield > To: , > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hi, > > The above public house was in my family (DODSON & VICKERMAN) from bef 1841 > to c1930s > and am trying to locate any existing photographs. > > I have located the actual site of the pub, using a 1961 Ordnance Survey map, > kindly helped by staff in Kirklees Local Studies. The address of the > Boar's Head > was 26 Wakefield Road, Moldgreen up to 1919 and from 1920 onwards is shown > as 210 Wakefield Road. I am assuming the most likely explanation of this > is a re-numbering of Wakefield Road. The Boar's Head is variously shown > as a beerhouse and inn. > > The pub was situated on the right hand side of Wakefield Road (leaving > Huddersfield) just before the turn off to Almondbury Bank and after the > Rookery Road junction. The pub and the 2 houses in Boar's Head Yard were > literally surrounded by Mills and Works. > > I have tried all the usual online sources including Kirklees local studies, > Kirklees > Image Archive, Andrew Loughran's website, Search engines etc but with no > success. > > Any help/thoughts would be gratefully received > > Kind Regards > > > > Maureen Mitchell > > A Yorkshire tyke living in Norfolk (UK) > > Researching JUBB & VICKERMAN > Guild of One Name Studies

Hi Roger, It was so kind of you to check - thank you so much. Kind Regards Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Gill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:46 PM Subject: [WRY] Boar's Head beerhouse/public house - Moldgreen, Huddersfield > > Hi Maureen & list > > Whilst in the area today I thought I would see if there was any trace of > Boars Head pub and or yard. > I am afraid what must have been the area is covered by a C20th brick built > factory building - no trace of either. > > Regards > > Roger > > researching: GILL, BERRY, CHARLESWORTH, ROBINSON in the Holme Valley, > south of Huddersfield. > > > > > >> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:24:26 -0000 >> From: "Maureen Mitchell" >> Subject: [WRY] Photo of Boar's Head beerhouse/public house - >> Moldgreen, Huddersfield >> To: , >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=original >> >> Hi, >> >> The above public house was in my family (DODSON & VICKERMAN) from bef >> 1841 >> to c1930s >> and am trying to locate any existing photographs. >> >> I have located the actual site of the pub, using a 1961 Ordnance Survey >> map, >> kindly helped by staff in Kirklees Local Studies. The address of the >> Boar's Head >> was 26 Wakefield Road, Moldgreen up to 1919 and from 1920 onwards is >> shown >> as 210 Wakefield Road. I am assuming the most likely explanation of >> this >> is a re-numbering of Wakefield Road. The Boar's Head is variously >> shown >> as a beerhouse and inn. >> >> The pub was situated on the right hand side of Wakefield Road (leaving >> Huddersfield) just before the turn off to Almondbury Bank and after the >> Rookery Road junction. The pub and the 2 houses in Boar's Head Yard >> were >> literally surrounded by Mills and Works. >> >> I have tried all the usual online sources including Kirklees local >> studies, >> Kirklees >> Image Archive, Andrew Loughran's website, Search engines etc but with no >> success. >> >> Any help/thoughts would be gratefully received >> >> Kind Regards >> >> >> >> Maureen Mitchell >> >> A Yorkshire tyke living in Norfolk (UK) >> >> Researching JUBB & VICKERMAN >> Guild of One Name Studies > > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >