Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

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28th.—Dined at Burrowbridge. Lodged at Woodhall’s firth, where I met with Thomas Craibtree, a tanner, nephew to the late Mr. Brook, of Field head. He had formerly a good estate near Bradford, but is now reduced, and gets his living by going about and selling a medicine to kill worms.

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28th.—Dined at Burrowbridge. Lodged at Woodhall’s firth, where I met with Thomas Craibtree, a tanner, nephew to the late Mr. Brook, of Field head. He had formerly a good estate near Bradford, but is now reduced, and gets his living by going about and selling a medicine to kill worms.

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• Boroughbridge (4) ·
• 📌Bradford (72) ·
• Charlatan (2) ·
• Hobson, John (32), enthusiastically morbid diarist of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), the date of whose own death is unknown ·
• Nematicide (1) ·
• Social class (7) ·
• Tanning (leather) (6) ·
• Woodall, South Yorkshire (1) ·
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