The Colonies
Huddersfield, WEST YORKSHIRE - Old Clergy House, Almondbury
Address:
The Old Clergy House, Almondbury, Nr Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Children:
20 boys aged 7-12
Opened:
28 July 1937
Closed:
22 June 1939
Support:
Local BCC (mainly), actively led by the Mayor of Huddersfield: Cllr Joseph Barlow and the Chairman of the House Committee: Mrs W. Lawton
Maestra:
Soledad Gorriño
Auxiliar:
Hilaria Alonso
Click to view photos in the gallery
Short notes
- The children seem to have stayed the whole time here and not been moved around.
Articles concerning this colony
Huddersfield — Huddersfield and the Spanish Civil War
Alan Brooke March 2009
[First published in the Huddersfield Local History Society Journal]
Account of the unveiling of the blue plaque at Almondbury, Huddersfield — by Carmen Kilner
Basque Refugees in Huddersfield, 1937-1939
The Clergy House - 1898 - Almondbury, Huddersfield
Plaque Remembers Basque Refugee Children
Links to external sites concerning this colony
Basque Refugees in Huddersfield, 1937-1939, from the web site of Huddersfield historian Alan Brooke
Contemporary newspaper extracts and reports about this colony
View the extracts, curated by Gaizka Garamendi, by newspaper title or by year, or both.
More to follow as we develop this part of the site …
