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- 17 May 1828: Joseph Pickles of Wilsden, a Methodist convert, dies, having partially recovered his sight, and helped produce 410 descendants
- 12 July 1770: William Hickington, the Pocklington Poet, writes a verse-will
- 2 October 1800: Part of an obituary to Harry Rowe, Punch and Judy man, trumpeter at the Battle of Culloden and the York assizes, who died today, old and ill, in the York poorhouse
- 6 May 1800: A bread riot at Leeds market, during Napoleon’s blockade of Britain, and following a harvest failure in 1799
- 22 August 1853: Leeds retailers agree to early closing – eight o’clock in summer and seven in winter
- 9 November 1840: The end of the horse trade at the Leeds winter fair
- 12 September 1856: Band-leader John Hope tells an inquest of the life and murder of his daughter, the dancer Jane Banham, by her ex-lover, a Mancunian tailor, at the Malt Mill Inn, Armley
- 7 September 1874: A bell-ringing contest at All Saints Church, Wath upon Dearne prompts an outraged editorial in the trade journal
- 4 October 1831: The end of a 33-week strike by weavers at Gott’s, Leeds
- 29 October 1671: Margaret Pinchbeck of Pickering tells the York coroner that she killed her husband with an axe, and that he deserved to die
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