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- 28 June 1727: Barnsley gentlemen celebrate the proclamation of George II with rather mysterious cockades
- 31 October 1674: Riding home to Pontefract from Wakefield fair, a sozzled Silvanus Rich enters the River Calder in flood at Wakefield bridge
- 14 February 1818: 17 girls aged 9-18 die in a fire at Thomas Atkinson’s cotton mill at Colne Bridge (Huddersfield), but the counting house and warehouse are saved
- 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
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