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- 14 January 1472: Shipments of wallpaper(?) from Schiedam (Holland) pass through Hull customs
- 30 July 1661: John Ray encounters the effigy of a tragic Inuit in his canoe at Hull Trinity House
- 9 August 1661: John Ray encounters kelp-makers on the coast between Scarborough and Whitby
- 16 July 1858: Walter White meets two Middlesbrough families on Roseberry Topping
- 19 August 1931: Lawrence Ennis of Dorman, Long & Co. of Middlesbrough, producer of steel and bridges, supervises closure of the arch on Sydney Harbour Bridge
- 19 July 1849: As William Clarke’s All-England Eleven begins a match against a Hull 22, the local paper notes the failure of seaports to produce good cricketers
- 4 September 1764: Laurence Sterne, curate at Coxwold, is minded to sin at Scarborough
- 15 November 1745: Nanna Rann Dann dies at Easingwold, leaving a curious epitaph
- 3 April 1797: A sporting flyer with some unsporting spelling
- 15 June 1795: An advert on a chimney sweep’s door at Easingwold
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