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- 2 December 1726: The Rev Hopkins of Kirkheaton castrates himself to prevent further mischief
- 9 October 1726: Two horsemen attack the house of Mr Goodwin, rector of Tankersley (Barnsley)
- 20 September 1726: Dodworth (Barnsley) gets its first window glass
- 25 July 1603: Sir Richard Wortley, persecutor of his neighbours, dies, and is later zoomorphised as the Dragon of Wantley
- 8 August 1514: Sir Thomas Wortley’s death inaugurates the memorial he has built for himself at Wharncliffe
- 15 April 1729: John Hobson of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), pessimist, believes he is about to die
- 9 April 2021: The Singing Organ-Grinder sees his new home of Leeds from the M62, and a terrible memory surfaces
- 31 May 1844: Mrs Haslegrave is savaged by her brother-in-law’s bear at his pleasure garden in Wakefield
- 1 November 1643: Sam Priestley of Soyland (22) saves a Royalist enemy from drowning in Hebden Water at the Battle of Heptonstall, and himself dies later of pneumonia
- 27 February 1717: Julia Calverley of Esholt Hall completes ten panels of needlework currently displayed at Wallington Hall, Northumberland
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