Yours for Eternity: A Huddersfield Romance Wed 22nd Oct 2014 1- 2pm Huddersfield Library - Illustrated talk by John Rumsby describing the lives of a young Huddersfield soldier and his sweetheart in the early years of the First World War. kirklees.gov.uk/events/eventdetails.asp?evID=20942&evDtID=131672 Found in a Birkby attic, this collection of letters and postcards, written by Henry Coulter, Tramways clerk, and Lucy Townsend, shoe shop worker, between 1914 and 1916 shows how the Great War affected the lives of ordinary young people. Their words are soon to appear in a book, published by the Huddersfield Local History Society, and edited by local military historian and retired museum curator, John Rumsby.
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