Now! Then! Tag: Limestone

Entries for the tag ‘Limestone’

A common type of carbonate sedimentary rock, generally formed from the accumulation of corals and shells in the sea, often containing fossils; unsuited for textile manufacturing because of the hardness of the water and the relative lack of springs and brooks on its fells and in its gills.

8 February 1745: Pioneering but pennyless philologist Eugene Aram murders a wealthy Knaresborough wastrel
2 June 1755: John Wesley ponders the cause of the huge landslip (“like many cannons, or loud and rolling thunder”) of 25 March at Whitestone Cliff (Hambleton Hills)
13 October 1769: The poet Thomas Gray walks from Malham (“Maum”) to Gordale Scar and is horrified at the sight
19 October 1816: Serenaded by the military, decorated barges leave Leeds for Liverpool to celebrate the completion, after almost 50 years, of the canal uniting east and west
17 May 1823: “Doncaster fertiliser manufacturers imported more than a million bushels of skeletons from Waterloo and other Napoleonic battlefields in 1822”
15 December 1824: Joseph Aspdin, bricklayer of Hunslet (Leeds), submits the process description for his patent for “artificial stone,” which he calls “Portland cement”
11 July 1844: The botanist James Backhouse Jnr. and colleagues walk from Settle over Malham Cove, Gordale Scar and Arncliffe Clowder to Arncliffe
28 January 1847: Edward Stillingfleet recounts finding a “British” chariot burial during excavation of 100 Iron Age tumuli at Arras and Hessleskew on the Wolds 30 years ago
4 November 1857: Completion of the White Horse of Kilburn (Hambleton Hills)
4 July 1858: Incipient water-baby Tom arrives at Malham Cove, discovered today by Charles Kingsley
13 July 1858: A visit to an alum works near Whitby

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