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- 12 April 1875: The Times says that the ventilation tubes patented by Martin Tobin, a retired Leeds merchant, have ended air pollution in the borough’s police court
- 13 June 1864: With the assizes leaving York for the West Riding, manufacturers suffer a surprise defeat by landowners in the Lords in the choice of the new county town
- 27 September 1835: Gabriel Davis, an (Ashkenazi) Jewish optician of Woodhouse, asks a court to add him to the Leeds electoral roll
- 26 September 1835: The (Whig) Leeds Mercury reports the attempt of its proprietor and editor, Edward Baines Jnr, to qualify for the electoral register on the basis of shares in accommodation for the dead
- 27 June 1835: On the eve of municipal reform, the Leeds Mercury maps the self-electing clan that runs the Leeds corporation
- 19 September 1835: The Leeds Mercury attacks property valuations under the recent Municipal Corporations Act, which facilitate the political careers of men from the centre of town
- 21 February 1835: The Spectator sketches the preoccupations of Leeds’ Tory and Whig establishments – respectively, partying, and preventing implementation of the child labour provisions of the Factory Act
- 20 August 1852: Leeds unveils a statue modelled by someone believed to resemble Robert Peel (RIP)
- 8 July 1840: Hairdresser John Kitching of Wellington Road, Hunslet (Leeds) misinterprets the disposal by the murderer of the corpse of rag merchant William Rothery in the Aire as the drowning of a dog
- 17 January 1865: At Leeds, temperance advocate Wilfrid Lawson MP calls for the sale of alcohol to be banned
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