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- 13 February 1896: Connected to mains electricity from the Whitehall Road power station, Leeds City Council sells off the town hall’s (coal-fired) generation and storage plant
- 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”
- 25 January 1859: John Lumsden, Hull-based Scottish steam entrepreneur and future mayor, addresses the local Robert Burns centenary dinner
- 20 June 1881: John Tutin of Hull visits Hart-leap Well, the subject of Wordsworth’s anti-hunting poem
- 9 November 1967: Hervey Rhodes, Saddleworth (WR/GM) woollen manufacturer and Labour peer, on productivity and Pakistani immigration
- 15 April 1985: Hervey Rhodes tells his fellow-lords how, on the abolition of the Ridings in 1974, Saddleworth was lost to Greater Manchester
- 6 November 1973: Baron Rhodes of Saddleworth (WR/GM) recounts to the Lords a chat with a gamekeeper about the failure of the Tory PM Ted Heath to control the money supply
- 16 August 1819: James Lees of Saddleworth (WR/GM) attends a public meeting in favour of male suffrage at St Peter’s Square, Manchester – Peterloo
- 18 July 1973: Maddy Prior on Steeleye Span’s support set for Jethro Tull at the LA Forum tonight
- 3 July 1769: Thomas Pennant goes bird-watching at Flamborough Head
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