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- 19 March 1894: The Goole coroner wonders at the frequency of death by tripe
- 25 September 1779: The Rev. William Whytehead writes from Hornsea to his cousin four miles away with news of the Battle of Flamborough Head
- 23 August 1837: Robert Gibson, fishmonger of Queen Street, Hull, is beggared by his Liberal landlord for favouring the Conservatives in the general election, says the (Tory) Hull Packet
- 25 July 1837: Sir Walter James, 2nd Baronet (21) is elected MP for Kingston upon Hull, to the joy of a young Tory author
- 3 March 1825: Children’s author Annie Keary is born at Bilton-in-Ainsty, to the alarm of sister Lucy (7), as she recalls 50 years later
- 23 December 1732: The Hornsea hurricane of today, and the miraculous escape of the Gales, as recalled for the Rev. William Whytehead by his parishioners 55 years later
- 21 February 1853: Henry Warrass (14) dies like his fellow-Sheffielder, the infanticide Alfred Warrington
- 12 October 1659: With political turmoil elsewhere, gunfire celebrating the ceremonial demarcation of Hull’s bounds is heard as “a strange and very wonderful thing”
- 10 June 1882: A satirical London magazine congratulates the Yorkshire Tannery and Boot Manufactory on its embracement of meritocracy in the appointment of directors
- 3 October 1815: In the Hull Packet, a London reader defends a preference for the exact sciences over the humanities in the exam for mastership of the Trinity House mariners’ school
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