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- 19 August 1767: The will of James Bean of Aldbrough (Holderness), proved today, frees and provides for his ‘mulatto’ daughter Nancie on Jamaica
- 5 November 1841: The over-provision of cottage-style housing in Sheffield by speculative builders
- 16 October 1840: A traffic count is held on Park Road, Sheffield on the quietest day of the week
- 30 March 1850: The Independent quotes from a public health report on the old churchyard of what is now Sheffield Cathedral
- 23 January 1865: Leeds gentleman-photographer, William Lyndon Smith, drowns while trying to save an ice-skating couple on Benyon’s Pond at Gledhow Hall, Leeds
- 28 April 1747: John Wesley visits “the new house of the Germans” (the Moravians) at Pudsey, which is financed by overseas donations
- 19 April 1747: The Methodist John Nelson is attacked by an affluent mob while preaching at Heworth Moor and Acomb (York) on Easter Sunday
- 9 May 1757: John Wesley rides into Huddersfield in the Wild West Riding
- 8 December 1770: The Rev Henry Venn’s heart and lungs require removal from polluted Huddersfield to a Cambridge village
- 2 June 1755: John Wesley ponders the cause of the huge landslip (“like many cannons, or loud and rolling thunder”) of 25 March at Whitestone Cliff (Hambleton Hills)
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