Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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Roll on, gentle Aire, in thy beauty,
Renowned in story and song,
The subject of many a ditty,
From Nicholson’s musical tongue:
But a greater than he hath arisen,
Who has link’d thy name with his own,
He will render thee famous for ages,
And thou wilt to millions be known.

Then let us all join in the chorus,
And sing of the qualities rare,
Of one who by nature is noble,—
And hail him the lord of Saltaire!

He’s rear’d up a palace to Labour,
Will equal the Cæsars of old,
The church and the school and the cottage,
And lavish’d his thousands of gold:
Where the workman may live and be happy,
Enjoying the fruit of his hand;
In contentment, in comfort, and plenty,
Secure as a peer of the land.
Then let us all join, &c.

From Peru he’s brought the alpaca—
From Asia’s plains the mohair—
With skill has wrought both into beauty,
Priz’d much by the wealthy and fair:
He has velvets, and camlets, and lustres,
With them there is none can compare;
Then off, off with your hats and your bonnets,
Hurrah for the lord of Saltaire.
Hip, hip, and all join, &c.

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Roll on, gentle Aire, in thy beauty,
Renowned in story and song,
The subject of many a ditty,
From Nicholson’s musical tongue:
But a greater than he hath arisen,
Who has link’d thy name with his own,
He will render thee famous for ages,
And thou wilt to millions be known.

Then let us all join in the chorus,
And sing of the qualities rare,
Of one who by nature is noble,—
And hail him the lord of Saltaire!

He’s rear’d up a palace to Labour,
Will equal the Cæsars of old,
The church and the school and the cottage,
And lavish’d his thousands of gold:
Where the workman may live and be happy,
Enjoying the fruit of his hand;
In contentment, in comfort, and plenty,
Secure as a peer of the land.
Then let us all join, &c.

From Peru he’s brought the alpaca—
From Asia’s plains the mohair—
With skill has wrought both into beauty,
Priz’d much by the wealthy and fair:
He has velvets, and camlets, and lustres,
With them there is none can compare;
Then off, off with your hats and your bonnets,
Hurrah for the lord of Saltaire.
Hip, hip, and all join, &c.

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• 14 April 1843: John Nicholson, “the Airedale Poet,” “the Bingley Baron,” dies after falling into the Aire while drunk
• 26 July 1858: Walter White finds ancient gloom in Shipley and new hope in Titus Salt’s Saltaire
• 16 May 1881: J. Gill (72) of Sugden & Briggs, wool spinners, Bradford, dies of pulmonary anthrax, and his successor, J.R. Baker (58), is fatally infected with cutaneous anthrax
• 5 February 1852: 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
• 29 February 1824: Prophet John Wroe is baptised on the Leap Day in the Aire near Apperley Bridge before an audience of 30,000
• 18 March 1650: Dorothy Rodes of Bowling (Bradford) blames witchcraft by Mary Sykes for the postpartum illness of her daughter
• 18 April 1812: Dressed as a country lass, George Butler recites the West Riding dialect tragicomedy of Richard and Betty at the Theatre Royal, Ripon
• 1 December 1851: John (65) and Betty (73) of Wibsey are at long last united in a “funny wedding” at Bradford
• 9 June 1758: Entry into law of the first dedicated railway enabling act, for Richard Humble and Charles Brandling’s wagonway from Middleton Colliery to the Aire at Leeds
• 11 July 1858: In Whitby, Walter White buys a religious ballad printed at Otley and called ‘The railway to heaven’