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Showing posts with label clifton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clifton. Show all posts
Friday, 23 November 2012

23rd November 1812: a shot is fired into the house of a man at Clifton

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The Monday 30th November 1812 edition of the Leeds Intelligencer featured a letter to the editor which described an attack on an individual ...
Friday, 20 July 2012

20th July 1812: 'Observer' writes to the Leeds Intelligencer about the recent arms raids in Clifton

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To the Editor of the Leeds Intelligencer. SIR—Notwithstanding the very gentle manner in which the Editor of a certain provincial publicati...
Saturday, 14 July 2012

14th July 1812: Extensive arms raid at Clifton, West Yorkshire

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The former Black Bull Inn, Towngate, Clifton, today (as seen on Google Street View) In the early hours of Tuesday 14th July 1812, a group...
Thursday, 12 April 2012

12th April 1812: Late night visitors in the Spen Valley

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At Hightown, Sarah Naylor was still awake and pottering about well after 1.00 a.m. She heard a knock at her door: someone must have seen her...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012

7th February 1812: Letter from “General Lud” to "Unknown Stranger", Clifton

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Unknown Stranger I have intrusted thees Articles into your Care and I do insist that you will see that they are Restored to their respective...
Thursday, 26 January 2012

26th January 1812: Frame-breaking early and late in the day across Nottinghamshire

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In the early hours of Sunday 26th January, Luddites struck at Clifton, breaking 20 stocking frames there and a week after the last attack in...