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| Domesday Book, 1086 | 'In Odersfelt, Godwin had six carucates of land.. but it is waste.' |
| John Wesley, 1757 | 'I rode over the mountains to Huddersfield. A wilder people I never saw in England... [they] seemed ready to devour us.' |
| Freidrich Engels, 1844 | '...Huddersfield... the hansomest by far of all the factory towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire by virtue of... its modern architecture.' |
| James Hole, 1853 | 'We know of scarcely another Institute that can compare with it.' - referring to the Huddersfield Mechanic's Institute. |
| Sidney Webb, 1891 | 'London should emulate Galsgow, Liverpool,Dublin, Nottingham and Huddersfield in a large-scale municipal housing programme.' |
| George Bernard Shaw, 1930 | 'Huddersfield is plainly in a dark and pagan condition.' After poor support for his play Back To Methusalah |
| John Betjeman, 1964 | 'Of Huddersfield Station:... the most splendid station façade in England.' |
| Derek Linstrum, 1968 | 'The post-war rebuilding of the larger towns in the West Riding is a dismal story... relieved only by the example of Huddersfield.' |
Source: The Story of Huddersfield by Roy Brook.
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