Category: Your Stories

Back in the eighties I was out for a meal with my mum at the George Hotel when Gorden Kaye and Su Pollard walked past our table. They must have been dining in the restaurant and were leaving. Both were actors in successful sitcoms at the time, Su Pollard in Hi-De-Hi! and Gorden Kaye in ‘Allo ‘Allo! I remember Su Pollard was very friendly and was speaking to people who recognized her, but Gorden Kaye was quieter. My mum had known Gorden when he was a child and they lived on the same street in Moldgreen.

STEPHEN CLEGG

My grandma Peggy Mackay used to tell me that her Dad, Arthur Holt, used to tell her that when the clock struck 12, the lion on Lion Chambers would climb down and walk around St George’s Square. She then told me that the clock never actually struck.

Catriona swindells

I remember the lovely flowers on the roundabout and the fountain at St George’s Square, the long row of bus stops and once feeding pigeons with my mum. You can’t do that anymore.

Tracie hemphill

Subject to memory fallibility! My father stopped his car on a corner (Lion Buildings?) in the mid 1950s to buy the sporting results newspapers – pink, green (and yellow?) on a Saturday evening

BILL JAGGER

What a day in the history of St Georges Square! Town against all the odds had gained promotion to the Premier League. The team with a meagre budget had amazed the pundits. We believed and yes there we were massed in our thousands, shoulder to shoulder. The triumphal open top bus, the jubilant Terrier team, manager Wagner and owner Dean Hoyle came into view amidst the deafening chants and cheers. The trophy was visible for us all to see.

The atmosphere was electric; a blue and white army, chanting, cheering, celebrating, welcoming our heroes back to a Northern town – the birthplace of Harold Wilson, whose statue draped in Town colours looked on in the midst of the square. There was a sea of blue and white; children on parents’ shoulders, fans adorned with scarves waving flags and with the proud stone lion on Lion Chambers draped in a blue and white scarf. Even the rain later didn’t dampen our enthusiasm. It was a day that will go down in the history of the Square and one I certainly will never forget.

SHARON KELLY

This photograph was taken in July 2014 when there was a temporary fruit, vegetable and flower market in St George’s Square as part of the celebrations surrounding Tour de France coming to Yorkshire.  During the race itself large screens were placed in the square and many people watched the race outdoors. In the photograph are Janette Martin and Maria Clegg, with one of the French stall holders.  Inspired by Tour de France we cycled along the narrow canal to Slaithwaite that day!

JANETTE MARTIN

Huddersfield’s fantastic Festival of Light ran for several years and I’m pretty sure I went along on more than one occasion but I have managed to locate my photos for Friday 16 November 2007 and they suggest it was even more spectacular than I remember. The procession, which featured giant sea creatures, started at St Peter’s Gardens and ended with fireworks in St George’s Square. I had to do a bit of research to find that in 2007 the procession was created and staged by Plasticiens Volants from France.

Chris Verguson