Entries for 1858
There is material for
January,
July,
September 1858:
- 31 January 1858: John Henry is found guilty of “debauching the minds and ruining the rising generation” in his sweetshop on Broomhall Street, Sheffield
- 4 July 1858: Incipient water-baby Tom arrives at Malham Cove, discovered today by Charles Kingsley
- 5 July 1858: The view from the tower of Beverley Minster
- 11 July 1858: In Whitby, Walter White buys a religious ballad printed at Otley and called ‘The railway to heaven’
- 13 July 1858: A visit to an alum works near Whitby
- 16 July 1858: Walter White meets two Middlesbrough families on Roseberry Topping
- 20 July 1858: Haymaking with the Quakers of Bainbridge, Wensleydale
- 20 July 1858: Walter White visits Mill Gill and Whitfield Gill Force near Askrigg (Wensleydale)
- 26 July 1858: Walter White finds ancient gloom in Shipley and new hope in Titus Salt’s Saltaire
- 26 July 1858: Walter White samples the nascent Brontë tourist industry at Haworth, but declines to buy photographs or visit the father
- 27 July 1858: Walter White arrives at Batley
- 16 September 1858: Augustus Duncombe, dean of York, reopens St Helen’s, Stonegate, York, following a thoroughly Victorian restoration
- 18 September 1858: The Spectator is bowled over by the new Leeds Festival chorus’s singing of the Messiah – “the music text-book of the West Riding”