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Pablo Fanque – Circus Pioneer Buried in Leeds
The visitor to St George’s Fields cemetery, now part of the University of Leeds campus, might be intrigued to find ... -
Collapse of Newland Mill Chimney in Bowling, Bradford
By Vivien Teasdale Most people now realise that Victorian mills were dangerous places. The huge machinery had few guards, children ... -
Owen Madden: Profile – The Leeds Born Criminal Who Joined New York Underworld
The Leeds-born criminal who became a ruthless member of the New York underworld Although Leeds can pride itself on being ... -
Ellen Heaton – Women’s Rights Campaigner from Leeds
Ellen Heaton (1816–94) was an active campaigner for women’s rights and other philanthropic causes, including anti-vivisection, the environment and education. ... -
Mary Bateman – The Yorkshire Witch
By Summer Strevens The story of Mary Bateman, known as The Yorkshire Witch, or The Leeds Witch is well-known and ... -
Best Roman Finds From the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Yorkshire
Highlighting the remarkable Roman objects found in the region by Amy Downes and Rebecca Griffiths Yorkshire was part of the ... -
The Story of Titus Salt and Saltaire
Salts Mill in Saltaire, Bradford is an iconic Yorkshire building. Built by businessman and philanthropist Sir Titus Salt it has ... -
The Victoria Quarter, Leeds – History and Profile
The Knightsbridge of the North The Beatles once played there, top stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Gracie Fields have ... -
Historic Leeds Pubs
Paul Chrystal’s book ‘Central Leeds Through Time’ (Amberley Publishing, 2016, £14.99) charts Leeds’s evolution through a collection of captivating photographs. ... -
Haunted York – A Journey Through York’s Criminal Haunts
Author Summer Strevens investigates York’s murderous and supernatural history… Serving a Spectral Sentence… It is said that powerful or traumatic ... -
Mary Tuke – The Mother of York’s Chocolate Industry
By Summer Strevens If we are to examine the true circumstances surrounding the ‘birth’ of York as ‘Chocolate City’ we ... -
Yorkshire’s Cistercian Abbeys & The Wandering White Monks of Yorkshire
By Richard Smyth Life is seldom comfortable when you’re a monk. Lots of praying, lots of work, not much in ...
