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- 27 August 1801: The London painter Joseph Farington reconnoitres Leeds’s public cultural facilities
- 20 June 1795: The London painter Joseph Farington hears from a solicitor the details of the slavery-financed will of Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood and builder of Harewood House
- 6 December 1794: London painter Joseph Farington gets gossip from a pupil about colleague William Hodges’ visit to Walter Fawkes at Farnley Hall, some years before Fawkes met Turner
- 30 December 1779: Tombstone epitaph for William Carleill of Ecclesfield Hall (Sheffield), who died today aged 84
- 21 April 1826: Tombstone epitaph for Jonas Thackray of Grenoside (Sheffield) who died today aged 72
- 2 March 1797: Tombstone epitaph for George Wilkinson, village crier of Ecclesfield (Sheffield), who died today aged 94
- 6 December 1828: Tombstone epitaph for Joseph Batty (32) of Mortonley, who today fell into a coal pit 75 yards deep
- 28 April 1843: Thomas Hardwick announces the sale by auction at the Star and Garter of the Kirkstall Brewery, following the death in bankruptcy of Thomas Walker
- 5 November 1789: John Elley, a run-away apprentice to John Gelderd at Meanwood Tannery, Leeds, begins a distinguished career in the British Army, breaking the heart of his employer’s daughter
- 22 August 1896: A Leeds GP suggests that mysterious cases of diphtheria in Meanwood may be caused by its market gardens
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