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- 19 September 1854: A multifarious railway accident in the Bramhope tunnel between Leeds and Harrogate
- 5 February 1852: A local poet recounts the fate of some of his 81 neighbours drowned this morning in Holmfirth Flood through the miserliness of the mill-owners
- 14 April 1848: The tombstone epitaph and verse for James Myers, killed on this day while working in the Bramhope Tunnel, and for his daughter, who died three weeks later
- 28 May 1574: William Ireland fails to become Rector of Harthill (South Yorkshire) because of his abysmal ignorance
- 14 March 1573: Archbishop Grindal intercedes on behalf of the commoners of Sutton-on-the-Forest (north of York) against enclosure of part of the royal Forest of Galtres
- 26 December 1570: Edmund Grindal, Puritan archbishop of York, orders the removal of rood-lofts (and their superstitious images), and the erection of pulpits
- 29 August 1570: On arriving in Yorkshire, Archbishop Grindal declares war on bloody-minded folk-Catholicism
- 9 June 1758: Entry into law of the first dedicated railway enabling act, for Richard Humble and Charles Brandling’s wagonway from Middleton Colliery to the Aire at Leeds
- 25 December 1916: I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and other carols and mummery
- 29 September 1830: Tory Radical Richard Oastler: “free” white workers in the Bradford mills are worse off than their enslaved black counterparts in the colonies
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