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This site recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, during the last ten years the site has come a long way from the initial collection of past and present pictures to its present format. In future years time permitting the site will continue to develop with the past and present theme taking a lesser role and more content focusing on local history being added.


As of today the site has had

 

This is a real time count based on individual site visits not page loads.


individual visitors.
  • You can now view the Mirfield poll book for the West Riding election of 1848 HERE.
  • A new special feature on the arrival of the railway in Mirfield is available HERE.
  • There are now over 800 19th Century Mirfield News Articles in the Mirfield Leeds Mercury Archive HERE.
  • You can now search the site by locations on a Google Map and Google Earth HERE.
  • The Scrap Book has now been replaced by a far more extensive collection of Old Mirfield Pictures located in their own Old Pictures gallery, if you choose it is possible to leave a comment on each individual picture.
  • You now find out about the Reverend Joseph Ismay vicar of Mirfield 1740-1778 and read some of his writings in a new special feature HERE.
  • With the upcoming 200th anniversary of the Luddites uprising the special feature
      THE DUMB STEEPLE, THE CROPPERS TALE AND TROUBLE AT THE MILL
     has been updated.
  • The Old Railway Days video is now included on the Gallery 2 page.
  • A New 1908 OS map added HERE.
  • New feature Not The Latest News is available HERE.
  • The new feature on the Mirfield History Archive is available HERE.
  • The new feature on the Community of the Resurrection is available HERE.
  • The new Picture of the Month feature is available HERE.
  • The new Free Mirfield A Second Look Screensaver is available HERE.
  • There is a new scrap book of pictures available on the
    Gallery 1 page.
  • You can now leave Feedback requests etc on the Feedback page.
  • A zoom feature is now available on two of the larger maps in the Map Gallery.
  • The new 2010 Mirfield Quiz is now available for you to complete on-line.
Click HERE to enter The Mirfield Leeds Mercury Archive