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[edit] Timeline1632 First stone chapel built at Holmfirth 1694 School built at Holme 1778 Current Holmfirth chapel built after second Holmfirth flood 1776 Spinning Jenny used by James Beardsell of Holme 1837 Act of parliament authorizing the Holme Valley Reservoirs 1838 Holme school rebuilt 1838 Holmbridge church and Parish 1839 Hinchliffe Mill Chapel 1840 Bilberry reservoir constructed 1840 Holmfirth gas Works 1842 Grouse beating and shooting established on Snailsden Moor 1845 Original Woodhead tunnel opened (involved the death of 32 workers and scandalous conditions) 1852 (4th February) Holmfirth flood (breakage of Bilberry reservoir) 1878 Yateholme reservoir completed 1883 Riding wood reservoir completed 1886 Holmfirth express established 1892 Ramsden Reservoir completed 1899 Bamforths starts producing films 1920 Holme valley memorial hospital built 1932 Brownhill reservoir completed 1830s Aborted Plans to create reservour in Rake valley very near Holme 1938 Digley reservoir announced: Bilbery drained for inspections 1951 First transmitter mast completed at Holme Moss 1954 Digley reservoir constructed (Below reduced size Bilberry reservoir) 1954 Second woodhead tunnel completed (involving death of 6 workers) 1981 Woodhead tunnel closed 1980’s Holme Moss mast replaced with another mast 1998 Ingentia Atmospheric experiments 1999 Procloud atmospheric experiments conducted at holme moss 2008 Holmfirth Express becomes a few pages in Huddersfield Examiner |