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- 21 October 1830: William Smith stands trial for the theft of William Taylor’s hat during a Monday all-nighter at the Labour In Vain pub in Hull
- 17 July 1815: John Dunhill and William Bewell stand trial for their lives shortly after Waterloo, accused of the riotous demolition of a press-gang pub at 41, Humber Street, Hull
- 20 June 1633: The Corporation of Hull issues the technical and commercial specifications for the construction of its new ‘Council House’
- 9 August 1845: Young George Boothby of Honley goes to Huddersfield for a night out, and four women are later transported for ten years
- 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
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