Memorial Trees

This Sunday, 3rd January,  there are a number of services at Huddersfield Parish Church. The morning offerings are at 8.00am and 10.00am when we will be looking towards the Epiphany and the arrival at the Christmas scene of the wise men or kings. The preacher for this occasion is the Rev’d Dr Anna Wallis. In the afternoon,…

Christmas Memorial Service

In conjunction with the Tree of Remembrance in Huddersfield Parish Church –  a short simple service this Wednesday evening  – 6.30pm.

This Week’s Events at Huddersfield ParishChurch

Wed 4 December 6.30pm Christmas Memorial Service In partnership with the Huddersfield Funeral Home and Slaithwaite Funeral Service. For anyone who is grieving this Christmas time, a gentle service with an opportunity to light a candle to remember your loved one. Trees of memorial: throughout December trees of memorial are available in the church for you…

Memorial Tags and an Evening of Remembrance.

Since the beginning of December, small red tags have been written upon at Huddersfield Parish Church. Each tag with someone’s name upon it has been place onto one of two simply lit Christmas Trees. “The trees at the front of St. Peter’s are laden with tags and names”, commented the Rev’d Canon Simon Moor, “all…

Booth’s Fire Disaster Service and Plaque Unveiling.

Service and Plaque for the Booth’s Fire Disaster In 1941 there was a funeral for 49 individuals killed in the Booth’s Fire Disaster. A raging blaze tore through a Huddersfield factory resulting in so many deaths. The fire took place at the height of World War Two and among almost daily loss of life, this…

Booth’s Memorial

A service for the Booth’s disaster 3rd November 2012 Below is an article describing the disaster in 1941,  that will be remembered by the unveiling of a plaque in a month’s time. Huddersfield’s Black Friday. It was a scene of unimaginable horror, and for the people standing in the street below, they were witnessing something…

Huddersfield Remembers

 A MEMORIAL service for all those wanting to pay their respects and remember all the men and women who have died in the war in Afghanistan will be held in Huddersfield on Sunday.  The Bishop of Wakefield, the Rt Rev Stephen Platten will preach at the service which will be held in Huddersfield Parish Church,…

Public Memorial

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM! At 3pm on Sunday 13th a Memorial Service will be held at Huddersfield Parish Church to remember the six young men who died in March while serving in Afghanistan. Sergeant Nigel Coupe, aged 33 from 1st Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment; and Corporal Jake Hartley, 20; Private Anthony Frampton, 20;…