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- 1 March 1857: Job Senior, the Wharfedale Hermit and a pioneering polyphonic overtone singer, dies at Burley in Wharfedale
- 26 April 1810: Blind Jack of Knaresborough, perhaps the first professional road-builder to emerge during the Industrial Revolution, dies at his home in Spofforth
- 27 March 1634: In commercial Gothic urban legend, John Bartendale, a piper, is hung and buried at York, but awakes, is rescued and pardoned, and returns to the music business
- 18 August 1812: Lady Ludd leads bread rioters through the streets of Leeds
- 20 July 1858: Haymaking with the Quakers of Bainbridge, Wensleydale
- 1 July 1788: Leeds textile workers celebrate the banning of exports of live sheep
- 3 July 1816: Emilia Monteiro (15) of Lisbon dies in the French refugee convent at Heath Old Hall, Wakefield, and is commemorated by a local Liberal doggerelist
- 2 July 1644: Henry Slingsby of the Royalist York garrison recounts Prince Rupert’s defeat at Marston Moor today, which ends Charles I’s hopes in the north
- 18 June 1753: John Alcock becomes rector of Burnsall, Craven, initiating several amusing decades
- 31 July 1881: Underway to the Bicycle Touring Club’s annual August meet, a London rider struggles on the road from Doncaster to Harewood via Pontefract and Leeds
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