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- 22 January 1863: Young William Allison sees Bob Gowland, Kilvington’s blacksmith, slaughter a pig while drunk
- 27 November 1833: Lewis Fenton, Huddersfield MP, falls mysteriously from the upper window of his house
- 19 December 1881: Sir William Payne-Gallwey (73), ex-MP for Thirsk, is bested by a turnip while out shooting
- 31 March 1856: William Allison, a 4-year-old port-drinker, hears what he believes to be Russian gunfire while building sandcastles on Redcar beach
- 12 May 1865: John Pick Allison, a Thirsk solicitor, writes to comfort his 14-year-old son William at Rugby School
- 6 December 1853: The Rev. Heslop of Forcett (Richmondshire) writes in the old style to his protégé John Pick Allison regarding the death of the latter’s uncle, and suspicions of legacy-hunting
- 7 April 1679: Catholic missionary Nicholas Postgate (80) speaks words of hope before being hanged, disembowelled and quartered at York on the false word of Titus Oates
- 3 August 1873: Eight years after the end of slavery in the United States, the Fisk Jubilee Singers sing spirituals in a crowded Hull street
- 16 August 1845: The York Herald is conned into posting the American actor Ira Aldridge’s sensational account of his own death
- 9 July 1849: Suicide of a London bride at Holbeck (Leeds)
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