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1852:
5 February
1852
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A local poet recounts the fate of some of his 81 neighbours drowned this morning in Holmfirth Flood through the miserliness of the mill-owners
20 March
1852
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Sam Hyam, gents’ outfitter of Briggate, Leeds, markets his spring collection to poetry-lovers
3 April
1852
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Brickfield workers from Wortley (Leeds) bring Henry Denny, curator of the Leeds Museum, some huge “unchristian” bones
8 November
1852
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Commander John R. Ward, R.N., rescues Ann Millanby from the Tees at Stockton
21 December
1852
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Sarah Slater (19) insists that Alfred Waddington (21) had no moral right to murder her and behead their toddler