‘Usually we regard the beginning of a new year as a time for good resolutions, but his is a time such as has never before been known in the history of our country and it calls for the highest personal service and self-sacrifice.'

‘The cloud of war still hangs over Europe and the whole mind of our people is concentrated on one single thought and purpose, namely, the emancipation of the world from military oppression.

‘The new year’s chimes should serve as a trumpet call to duty in every department of life so that before the close of the year the tyrant may have been laid low and a permanent peace established.'

- Onlooker's New Year Message

The links below will take you to a digest of stories from January 1915


- Christmas treat for workhouse inmates
- Deserted the army to join the navy
- Shipley MP in New Year's honours

- Families face 1915 on limited budget
- Man fined for attack on tram conductor
- Crash puts schoolboy in hospital at Christmas

- Life at the front: jam on slices of turnip
- Gruelling schedule in army training camp
- Soldier's hazardous route to his wedding

- Shipley MP Percy Illingworth dies
- When the MP was saved by his dog
- 'Ah feel as if Ah'd lost a friend'

- Men resign because of their foreign names
- Boy steals bread for 'litle ones at home'
- New year treats for soldiers' dependents
- Military funeral for Windhill soldier
- Unlucky Jim killed in submarine raid
- Man works passage from USA to enlist
- Council discuss who pays for Volunteer Force
- Liberals search for new MP
- Hard labour for beggar
- Bombarding lifts boredom at sea
- Wounded soldier ready to return to front
- Counting the cost of looking after refugees
- Stanley's photo saves dad's life
- Reports of civilian suffering at the front
- POWs urgently need more socks
- Big guns blast as soldiers sing hymns
- Everyman for himself as ship goes down
- 36 set out, only four return
- Council accused over Volunteer Force funds
- Pub hours shortened
- Golf superstars at war fund raiser
- Churches battle dwindling congregations
- Windhill mourns inspirational teacher
- More Belgian refugees expected
- Optimism for local businesses
- Pot-hole defence helps motorists
- Hartlepool shell fragment put on show
- Women collect cigarettes to send to troops
- When every house had a pig but no post
- Shipley has a new MP
- Edwin Blackburn in district's 11th victim
- Volunteer Force unimpressed by ping pong
- Holiday homes used to house refugees

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