Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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Numbered as the trees in Greno I stood
Till was marked to fall;
Death laid the axe into the root,
As He will do to all.

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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• Death (18) W/G ·
• Ecclesfield (9) W/G ·
• Epitaph (8) W/G ·
• Grenoside (4) W/G ·
• 📌Sheffield (80) W/G ·
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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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6 December 1828: Tombstone epitaph for Joseph Batty (32) of Mortonley, who today fell into a coal pit 75 yards deep

2 March 1797: Tombstone epitaph for George Wilkinson, village crier of Ecclesfield (Sheffield), who died today aged 94

30 December 1779: Tombstone epitaph for William Carleill of Ecclesfield Hall (Sheffield), who died today aged 84

15 January 1873: Mr Fairest details the historical embezzlement and misdirection of charity funds in Ecclesfield (Sheffield), until the audience can take no more

6 February 1906: A reporter gains exclusive access to the entombment of Horatio Bright, a Sheffield steel merchant and lapsed Jew, alongside his first wife and only son

26 April 1810: Blind Jack of Knaresborough, perhaps the first professional road-builder to emerge during the Industrial Revolution, dies at his home in Spofforth

15 August 1805: The Sheffield volunteer infantry depart to fight Napoleon on the beaches

4 July 1838: 26 girls and boys drown trying to escape via a tunnel from flash flooding in Huskar Colliery, Silkstone, Barnsley, after the steam lifts fail during a rainstorm

25 May 1728: King Jessop, the fighting rector of Treeton (Rotherham), is buried at Sheffield, and remembered for his punch and his parody

25 March 1831: Esther Dyson of Ecclesfield (Sheffield), charged with decapitating her infant daughter, is judged insane because she is deaf-mute

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Tip of the hat to David Scrimgeour (Scrimgeour 2015), who includes the detailed report from the Leeds Intelligencer and tells of the inquest prior to the hearing and of Dyson’s subsequent career in the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

What led Dyson to this terrible deed? Who was the father? Was she raped?

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