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- 20 November 1826: “Nimrod” of London encounters The Four Alls on a pub sign in Burniston (Scarborough) while on a hunting tour
- 3 November 1826: “Nimrod” of London gets to know a coachman during a journey from Leeds to York
- 12 June 1810: Curate Patrick Brontë anticipates muscular Christianity and creates material for Charlotte during a Whit walk from Dewsbury to Earlsheaton
- 7 November 1920: In a guest sermon in the parish church where his father had officiated, Clifford Allbutt evokes the village of Dewsbury in the 1840s
- 27 April 1924: In a letter to Edmund Gosse, Clifford Allbutt recalls the Brontës
- 10 April 1877: Echoing Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, John Collier tells a meeting at Walkley (Sheffield) that there was an initial local separation between Normans and Anglo-Saxons
- 18 September 1904: Henry Ross of Sheffield kidnaps neighbour Jenny Whitnear’s youngest son and flees to New Jersey, but 30 years later everyone will have questions to answer
- 6 February 1906: A reporter gains exclusive access to the entombment of Horatio Bright, a Sheffield steel merchant and lapsed Jew, alongside his first wife and only son
- 16 February 1789: Thomas Paine writes to Thomas Jefferson telling of the “revolutionary” iron bridge being built to his design by the Walkers of Masbrough (Rotherham)
- 21 December 1852: Sarah Slater (19) insists that Alfred Waddington (21) had no moral right to murder her and behead their toddler
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