Read The history of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme : with manorial notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clifton and Kirklees - Joseph Horsfall Turner | PDF Online

IntroductionTHERE is little need for a native, though more than half his lifetime up to the present has been spent outside the dis- trict, to apologise for the pub- lication, however crudely the work may be done, of the history of the old haunts of childhood, especially as no such record has hitherto been attempted. True patriotism takes its rise from a love for the old