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- 4 July 1829: The first London buses commence service from the Yorkshire Stingo, New Road to Bank
- 13 July 1503: On her way to marry James IV of Scotland, Margaret Tudor (13) is met between Sirowsby and Doncaster by a euphonious sheriff
- 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 local Normans and Anglo-Saxons initially lived apart
- 24 April 1905: Eliza Hawley inaugurates Sheffield’s new crematorium at the City Road Cemetery
- 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
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