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- 19 February 1557: At a tithe hearing, Ralph Dicconson (60) of Malton recalls his visits 40 years ago as a pedlar to Kirkham Priory before its dissolution in 1539
- 25 June 1586: At a tithe tribunal, elderly ex-nuns recall hay-making at Moxby Priory before its dissolution in 1536
- 3 March 1607: During a tithe case at Kirkbymoorside, George Hutton (82) recalls Roland Blyton hunting at Skiplam and Welburn before the Dissolution 70 years ago
- 1 January 1151: Monks from Fountains move into the half-finished mud predecessor of Meaux Abbey (East Riding), built for them by Count William the Fat
- 11 October 1786: George Yardley, charcoal-burner, dies as he had lived
- 22 October 1674: Barbara Lee dies and – says her epitaph – is then buried upright under the fireplace of St James’ Church, Norton, Sheffield
- 5 September 1860: Friends of Elizabeth Mitchell (14), murdered by a fellow-servant at Upton (Pontefract), bear her to her grave at South Kirkby
- 18 July 1848: The sanitation committee of Bradford Council experience the use of iron(III) chloride and iron(II) sulphate as sewage deodorants
- 11 January 1906: Joseph Wright, Oxford professor of comparative philology and ex-donkey-boy for a Shipley quarry, discusses self-interest at the opening of Windhill Library
- 15 December 1888: Frank Kidson longs for Leeds’ musical Christmasses past
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