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- 24 September 1892: Vanity Fair profiles Lord Hawke, amateur captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, and soon to be the most successful county captain ever
- 13 March 1884: Darlington iron magnate William Barningham is portrayed for a probate court from the diary of a beneficiary of his decision to leave his daughter little and his wife nothing of £450,000
- 10 March 1884: At the opening of the municipal Gasworks Committee’s exhibition of domestic appliances, Darlington’s mayor explains how increasing gas consumption will benefit ratepayers
- 22 May 1874: As ironworkers breach their employment contract to celebrate Whitsun, the Darlington Iron Company breaches it too by turning away those wishing to work
- 24 October 1877: Six years after the inauguration of its horse trams, the Leeds Tramways Company tests a steam car by Kitson and Co. of Hunslet
- 14 December 1892: Experts tell the High Court that electromagnetic interference from Leeds’s 1891 overhead electric tramway to Roundhay – the nation’s first – has brought down the local telephone service
- 10 October 1908: Morley-born Liberal PM Asquith gives a speech on alcohol licensing at the Leeds Coliseum, as suffragettes, suffragists, unemployment activists and mounted police entertain outside
- 19 May 1147: An expedition leaves Fountains Abbey to found Barnoldswick (WR/Lancs), predecessor of Kirkstall Abbey, as told by one of the colonists
- 16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday in the minster on a desperate day during the siege of York by Parliament and the Scots, Thomas Mace hears “the most remarkable singing of psalms anywhere in these our latter ages”
- 30 November 1756: A Leeds brewery advertises its March beer, made with fresh Holbeck water, for wholesale in time for Christmas
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