Entries for 1825
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January,
February,
March,
April,
June,
July 1825:
- 11 January 1825: American comment on William Hirst of Leeds’s revolutionary and controversial labour-saving improvements to spinning and stubbing machines, patented today
- 12 January 1825: Safety failings kill 24 in an explosion at Gosforth Pit, Middleton (Leeds), owner Charles Brandling MP, manager John Blenkinsop
- 3 February 1825: The last great festival at Bradford for Bishop Blaize, the wool-combers’ patron
- 3 March 1825: Children’s author Annie Keary is born at Bilton-in-Ainsty, to the alarm of sister Lucy (7), as she recalls 50 years later
- 4 April 1825: A Leeds jury shows limited sympathy for Job Robinson, a London fashion designer who lost his job with Hardwick’s of Briggate through alcohol and cricket
- 20 June 1825: The Wool Combers and Weavers Union of Bradford, meeting at the Roebuck Inn, signs off a poster condemning the anti-strike petition issued by the employers, meeting at the Sun
- 6 July 1825: James Backhouse, a Quaker nurseryman from York, triumphs with exotic varieties at the Yorkshire Horticultural Society’s summer meeting in Leeds
- 30 July 1825: The Bridlington bellman Dickey Fletcher cries two keys found on the resort’s North Sands