17th April 1812: Threshing machine & barn set on fire at Carlton, near Barnsley

On the evening of Friday 17th April 1812, a barn full of grain and a threshing machine were set alight at a farm at Carlton, near Barnsley. The whole was the property of James Stuart-Wortley, a local magistrate and MP, who reported in a letter to the Home Office that he heard reports "of bodies of men having been that night coming down from the Westwood".

The Leeds Mercury saw the matter, predictably & myopically, not as an attack on Stuart-Wortley but an attack on the supply of food: "To burn corn and destroy thrashing machines, is the sure way to convert scarcity into famine."

25th December 1811: Frame-breaking in the Nottinghamshire villages

On the evening of Wednesday 25th December, at least one stocking frame was broken at Carlton, 3 at Sneinton and 2 in the town of Nottingham itself (North Street according to Conant & Baker).

27th November 1811: 1 Frame broken at Carlton, 6 at Basford

One frame was broken at Carlton, and Luddites would have no doubt broken more, but Conant & Baker reported that a party of Dragoons disturbed them.

The destruction at Basford continued: 6 more frames were broken in the evening.

Earlier in the daytime, a party of the 15th Dragoons were escorting a number of Frames from Bulwell and Basford to Nottingham when Luddites mounted an attack at 12 noon at Redhill, near Arnold. One frame was broken, and the Nottingham Review noted that the soldiers "avoided proceeding to extremities, not having the power to obstruct the rioters in a determined purpose."