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- 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 (West Riding) 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 caused the invention of Greater Manchester
- 6 November 1973: Baron Rhodes of Saddleworth (West Riding) 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 (West Riding) attends a public meeting in favour of male suffrage at St Peter’s Square, Manchester – Peterloo
- 18 July 1973: London-based folk-rock band Steeleye Span (lead singer Maddy Prior) play a Yorkshire-influenced support set for Jethro Tull at the LA Forum
- 3 July 1769: Thomas Pennant goes bird-watching at Flamborough Head
- 30 July 1882: On his way to play with the Muker church band, Richard Guy of Hill Top Farm climbs over a wall to inspect a fertile heifer
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