This year marks the centenary of the unveiling of both the Heckmondwike and also Cleckheaton’s Spenborough War Memorials. Features of our local landscape that with the dulling of their initial poignancy for local families are all too often taken for granted and...
Local Catholics departed at first light on August Bank Holiday Monday from Holy Spirit Church at Heckmondwike to begin a five day pilgrimage to Normandy and some of the sites associated with the D-Day landings in 1944. Under the guidance of military historian and...
In 2008 Fr Nicholas Hird, Parish Priest of Cleckheaton and Heckmondwike, published the first two volumes of his monumental biographical dictionary of the priests of the Diocese of Leeds. This work covered the years from 1878, when the Diocese was founded, up to 1914....
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