Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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Hevvin tane a gurt intrust in the vernackler of aar taan, I hav allus been towt that t’reason why we arr calld Leedz Loiners is becoss thear is so monny Loins in Leedz. Nearly all t’owd Streets are name’d Loins or wun soart or anuther, and this I beleev is the oanly real caase of uz bean called Leedz Loiners.

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• Wright, Joseph (1855-1930) (2), philologist, author of the English Dialect Dictionary, rose from humble origins in Idle but said "I have been an idle man all my life, and shall remain an idle man till I die" W/G ·
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This trial followed a long period of more or less successful implementations by other builders elsewhere: the article says that “For some time steam cars similar to this have been used on street tramway lines in Russia and in Germany” (really?), while Daniel Kinnear Clark cites schemes starting in 1859 in the United States, and says that Leonard J. Todd of Leith appears in 1871 to have been the first to build a relatively steam-, smoke-, and noise-free car, like the Kitsons’ (Clark 1894). DKC shows a late 1880s Kitson engine, but doesn’t mention this experiment or its somewhat mixed sequel:

Regular steam car services were not operated, however, until two years later, and then only on routes then being operated by horse cars. Steam trams were not very successful as the heavy engines caused much damage to the very light rails and so were replaced by horse trams again on several routes (Garside 1981).

Re “could travel at a much higher rate of speed than is possible with horses”: speeds were kept low by regulation and/or legislation (Leeds Mercury 1877/03/08).

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