Entries for 1881
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December 1881:
- 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
- 20 June 1881: John Tutin of Hull visits Hart-leap Well, the subject of Wordsworth’s anti-hunting poem
- 31 July 1881: Underway to the Bicycle Touring Club’s annual August meet, a London rider struggles on the road from Doncaster to Harewood via Pontefract and Leeds
- 19 December 1881: Sir William Payne-Gallwey (73), ex-MP for Thirsk, loses a fight with a turnip