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- 31 March 1943: The Archbishop of York calls in the Lords for the wartime ban on ringing church bells to be lifted or modified
- 10 June 1715: Following the accession of the Hanoverian George I, Tories ring the bells of Leeds church on the birthday of his Jacobite rival, the Old Pretender, currently plotting a comeback
- 27 March 1690: At the première of an ode celebrating the “chief agents” of the Glorious Revolution – “the city and county of York” – London Yorkshiremen hear of domestic decline since Roman rule
- 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 investment, productivity and 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
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