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- 5 December 1859: Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon’s nephew and the cousin of the then French emperor, has work for the Barnsley dialectologist Charles Rogers
- 30 May 1835: The (Tory-dominated) Leeds Corporation gives its assets to three cronies to prevent their being inherited by the new (Whiggish) town council created by the Municipal Corporations Act
- 18 October 1835: A Keighley churchwarden and constable drag one Mr Aken, a local bookseller and printer, into Sunday service
- 24 July 1926: “Leeds Corporation’s clean air strategy focuses too much on buildings and not enough on people”
- 31 January 1833: Thomas Tennant, Mayor of Leeds, tells a court how he was mugged on Bank Street on his return from a business trip south
- 20 March 1755: Royal assent for the Whig government’s act prohibiting, among other things, on-street parking in Leeds
- 3 August 1874: The mayor of Grassington addresses the humorist and miner Thomas Blackah and the other eight Pateley Bridge antiquarians during their summer outing around Craven
- 21 September 1874: The young of Nidderdale and Wharfedale celebrate Craven Lass’s victory amid urban railway tourists in the Pateley Bridge Races
- 14 October 1769: The poet Thomas Gray travels from Skipton to Otley
- 13 October 1769: The poet Thomas Gray walks from Malham (“Maum”) to Gordale Scar and is horrified at the sight
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