As an early Twitter user (my personal account) it pains me, but X is a car crash these days thanks to its ketamine addled owner. I've moved on over to the other side now -- hope to see some of you there :-) https://t.co/lgsjqUISz0

Winter 1947, A snowbound bus on Castle Hill in Huddersfield. This was one of three single deck buses stranded for several weeks on this road that winter. Image and information courtesy of Arthur Shaw.

Today marks the 110th anniversary of the opening of #Holmfirth Auxiliary Cottage hospital on Woodhead Road, Bottoms

To mark Huddersfield Local History Society's republication of suffragist Florence Lockwood's autobiography, they are dedicating their annual History Day (Sat 9 Nov) to speakers who will share the stories of some of the district's other pioneering women. https://t.co/qKMptZKfms

Both films may possibly date from late March 1898 when "heavy snow showers prevailed" in much of West Yorkshire.

This from the Examiner interview with Fred Beaumont in 1926:

@YorkshireFilm In the second sequence, the local squire (played by Beaumont), arrives to tell the boys off but ends up getting snowballed himself. Another man (played by Edwin Bamforth) arrives to assist him. The sequences were film near Wheat Close off Woodhead Road.

@YorkshireFilm In the first sequence, school boys (who'd been recruited from a school in Holmbridge) are seen throwing snowballs at hapless passers by.

@YorkshireFilm We've got Fred Beaumont to thank for confirming in a Huddersfield Examiner interview that these two were the very earliest Bamforth films to be made (likely in 1898) and were meant to be screened one after the other... https://t.co/zSuTMK0dpR https://t.co/NSrnCIZAd1

@YorkshireFilm Rather than shouting "cut" when the family dog ran on, they kept on filming. Is this the earliest known example of a "blooper reel" as Lizzie Bamforth gets the giggles and looks across towards the camera? :-D

@YorkshireFilm Playing the role of the tramp was Fred Beaumont aka "Shiner", whose day job was a French polisher. Beaumont appears in lots of early Bamforth comic postcards and later became the landlord of the Jolly Hatters beerhouse in Holmfirth.

@YorkshireFilm Lizzie Bamforth is believed to be the actress in this early film, "The Tramp and the Baby's Bottle". If you watch the film, look out for the Bamforth's pet dog making an unscripted cameo appearance near the end. https://t.co/lQR1sPqqP8

@YorkshireFilm Again, it's difficult to be sure, but the chap on the right holding the camera might be Clem Wintermann (born Franz William Clemens Wintermann) who was the cinematographer of a number of Bamforth films. He married James Bamforth's daughter Lizzie.

It's unclear if Birch appears in this cast & crew photo (seemingly taken in 1912) that appears to be from "Winky Causes a Panic" which can be watched online at @YorkshireFilm https://t.co/KruECdp0hp

When Birch enlisted at Woolwich on 24 Feb 1916, he gave his profession as "cinema producer". However, after being discharged in 1918, he returned to working in education.

Birch directed all of the Bamforth "Winky" films, which starred stage comic actor Reginald Alfred Schwitzguebel (1874-1954). Of Swiss ancestry, he shortened his stage name to Reginald Switz. Winky's trademark was... you guessed it, doing a wink to the camera!

I'm currently down the rabbit hole of why a Welsh school master named Arthur Cecil Birch somehow ended up writing and directing around 130 films in Holmfirth between around 1912 and 1916. After wrapping filming on "Paula" in Jan 1916, he enlisted in the Army a few weeks later.

Charles Ingram Armitage was also a noted cricketer and the family is mention in Mrs Jagger's "History of Honley" book. He lived at High Royd House, Honley. https://t.co/3WGLmjCUeQ https://t.co/1PmaWftr7p

After Charles' death, Winifred moved with her mother to Albury, Surrey (1921 Census) and it was there that she married John William on 4 Dec 1924. Quite possibly she knew John from when his father was the vicar of Honley and they had stayed in touch over the years?

By 1891, John William was living in London and working as a civil engineer's assistant. Elizabeth's mother was Winifred Eileen Armitage, born Honley 1893, who was the daughter of local woollen manufacturer Charles Ingram Armitage and his Irish wife Jane Elizabeth Coates.