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[Dave Pattern]

I’ve set this message board up to support the Holmfirth Flood Project with the aim that it will help bring together anyone who has in interest in the 1852 and 1944 floods and who would like to be involved in a project to mark the upcoming anniversaries in 2024 and 2027.

My own aim is to put transcriptions of contemporary articles and documents about the floods online, along with research into the victims and their families.

There’s certainly potential for a much large commemorative project, which could include the large number of relevant materials held by West Yorkshire Archive Service. If suitable funding could be secured, that would allow those materials to be properly catalogued and restored, and possibly digitised so that they could be made available online.

If you want to get involved, please register for an account. If you have a Facebook, Google or Twitter account, I’d recommend using that as it simplifies the registration process and means you don’t have to remember a separate password.

Once you’re logged in, you can use the “Subscribe” button if you’d like to be alerted by email whenever new topics or replies are posted.

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[Dave Pattern]

To help with researching specific aspects of the floods, I’ve set up synonym searching to allow matches against certain variant spellings. For example, variants of Aner Bailey’s first name include Anor, Enor, Enos, Amor, Haner, and Hanmer. If you try searching for Aner Bailey, matches on the the variant spellings will also be included in the results.

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