Entries for the tag ‘Dog’
- 2 March 1665: A sighting of the northern lights at Northowram (Halifax) recalls the eve of the civil war
- 25 May 1728: King Jessop, the fighting rector of Treeton (Rotherham), is buried at Sheffield, and remembered for his punch and his parody
- 30 July 1820: Primitive Methodists try to disrupt the traditional Maudlin Fair football match between Hedon and Preston (Holderness)
- 30 May 1835: Alfred Austin, future poet laureate, “Banjo-Byron that twangs the strum-strum,” is born into rural splendour at Ashwood, 48 Headingley Lane, Leeds
- 23 December 1838: Showman Old Jemmy Wild’s body travels by caravan from Bradford to Huddersfield, followed by Billy the fortune-telling pony and Jerry the bloodhound
- 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
- 19 August 1849: The last bull-baiting at Lydgate Wakes, Saddleworth
- 14 February 1863: William Allison (11) witnesses hare-coursing at Cundall
- 12 August 1866: William Allison (15) goes grouse shooting for the first time, on Saltergate Moor (Pickering)
- 7 November 1866: James Robinson of Barnsley is observed teaching his dog to worry cats
- 11 August 1875: The Whitby town crier’s unique act for the municipal dog show
- 14 June 1876: Thomas Pridgin Teale’s family encounters a rabid dog in Headingley
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