A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data
John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:
.There has been very fair open weather this month; no frost or snow; some wind as warm as April; primroses sprung in the hedges; flowers in the garden; such a season has not been known in the memory of man.
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There has been very fair open weather this month; no frost or snow; some wind as warm as April; primroses sprung in the hedges; flowers in the garden; such a season has not been known in the memory of man.
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Place-People-Play: Childcare (and the Kazookestra) on the Headingley/Weetwood borders next to Meanwood Park.
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