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- 22 July 1932: Bradford Lord Mayor George Walker, on a jolly to France to make composer Frederick Delius a freeman, is taxed mercilessly by customs officials
- 30 January 1934: The wife of the Vicar of Weston, near Otley, has a nocturnal premonition of the death of the composer Frederick Delius
- 4 July 1838: 26 girls and boys drown trying to escape via a tunnel from flash flooding in Huskar Colliery, Silkstone, Barnsley, after the steam lifts fail during a rainstorm
- 15 May 1841: Patience Kershaw (17) tells the Children’s Employment Commission (Mines) about her work at Joseph Stocks’ Booth Town Pit, Halifax
- 19 February 1857: William Maddison goes into a burning Lundhill Colliery, Barnsley, to look for survivors of the firedamp explosion that killed 189 of the 200 men and boys underground
- 10 August 1870: The foundation stone of Bradford Town Hall is laid today, but not by ex-mayor Edward West, godfather of the project
- 19 October 1715: Abraham Sharp of Halifax fears for the fate of his scientific instruments
- 16 December 1722: Thomas Nettleton of Halifax recounts to James Jurin his success in inoculating against smallpox
- 23 June 1674: Oliver Heywood attends the funeral of Martha Stansfield and her baby
- 14 March 1655: Mary Sharp of Little Horton, Bradford, writes to her son Sam at Cambridge, in the year preceding his death, of his “misery by nature”
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