The Singing Organ Grinder's Yorkshire Almanac

Yorkshire on this day, with 10571 words in 35 entries taken from 39 amusing and informative historical and contemporary sources. Se non è vero, è ben trovato.

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Events inc regular markets, movable feasts historical events are above

Recent additions

1881/07/31 - A London cyclist struggles on the road from Doncaster to Harewood via Pontefract and Leeds, on his way to the Bicycle Touring Club’s annual August Bank Holiday meet in Harrogate

1684/09/29~ - It being Michaelmas, the Jolly Pinder of Wakefield (in song) leaves his beasts and pound and runs away to join Robin Hood in the greenwood

1888/11/05 - A Sheffield Guy Fawkes rhyme

1916/01/01 - A traditional New Year’s verse implies that God helps those who help themselves

1848/12/31 - Fragment of the Richmond Hagmena song, performed on New Year’s Eve by the town pinder

1744/02/08 - Pioneering philologist Eugene Aram murders a worthless Knaresborough man, whose wealth he probably seeks to use to acquire knowledge profitable to mankind

1777/06/04 - Opening of the first phase of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal

1405/05/29 - On Shipton Moor, York, the Earl of Westmorland tricks rebel leaders the Archbishop of York and the Duke of Norfolk into disbanding, whereupon Henry IV has them beheaded

1753/06/18 - Mobs from Otley and Yeadon join forces and destroy over a dozen toll-bars

1769/12/10 - Bill Brown, a poaching Brightside (Sheffield) steelworker, is fatally shot and stabbed by a gamekeeper near Rotherham, begetting a northern and a London ballad

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