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- 3 February 1825: The last great festival at Bradford for Bishop Blaize, the wool-combers’ patron
- 30 October 1744: Landowners form a partnership to pipe water from Little Horton to Bradford, facilitating urban growth
- 29 July 1895: The Law Lords rule that Edward Pickles of Trooper’s Farm may, even in malice, divert water under his property away from Bradford’s Hewenden Reservoir
- 28 March 1692: On Easter Monday Francis Pemberton, Vicar of Bradford, sits all day in a Haworth pub, collecting his Easter dues, while Oliver Heywood preaches for next to nothing
- 18 December 1642: “Bradford quarter” is given to a Royalist besieger during the First Siege
- 26 July 1827: Amid Nonconformist protests at a new church rate, payable by all Leeds to build temples for the Church of England, a Farnley man says organs are a waste of money
- 21 November 1855: Catherine Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army, writes from Dewsbury of her hopes for her unborn child
- 22 August 1876: The Sheffield Independent publishes a letter condemning “the blackguardism of the streets”
- 9 April 1833: Messrs. Verdon Brittain & Co. claim before a Sheffield court that razor-maker William Harrison of Sims Croft has plagiarised the mark granted them by the Cutlers’ Company
- 31 January 1858: John Henry is found guilty of “debauching the minds and ruining the rising generation” in his sweetshop on Broomhall Street, Sheffield
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