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- 25 December 1923: Winifred Stansfield of Balby (Doncaster) gets her doll
- 3 March 1913: Winifred Stansfield is born unable to suckle at Balby (Doncaster)
- 20 April 1835: A teetotallers’ tea-party at the first, great, Wilsden Temperance Festival
- 2 May 1844: The Bradford Observer reports a 10% increase in two years in the borough’s population
- 17 June 1830: Prophet John Wroe exorcises the epileptic daughter of a Bradford wool-sorter
- 12 November 1819: The first, nocturnal vision of Prophet Wroe in one of his fields at Tong Street, Bradford following his near-fatal fever
- 28 November 1796: The Royal Navy seeks recruits among the seamen of Sculcoates, Cottingham and Little Weighton (ER)
- 30 July 1798: The homeward-bound Greenland whaler Blenheim fights off a Royal Navy press gang in Hull harbour, killing two boarders
- 27 May 1746: Advertisement for a cockfight featuring 86 roosters at Pocklington (East Riding)
- 1 December 1773: 2½ days after leaving London, legal clerk Foster Powell walks into York, rests briefly, and starts back
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