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Showing posts with label fosters mill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fosters mill. Show all posts
Wednesday, 6 June 2012

6th June 1812: Shots fired close to the owner of Foster's Mill, near Horbury

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At 11.00 a.m. on Saturday 6th June 1812, apparent shots from a musket were fired at Mr. Foster, the owner of the Mill attacked by Luddites a...
Wednesday, 11 April 2012

11th April 1812: Colonel Campbell warns General Grey of a planned attack on Bradley Mills in Huddersfield

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Leeds 11th April 1812 Sir I am sorry to say that the Mills at Horbury S.W of Wakefield were on Thursday night attacked by an armed body ...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012

10th April 1812: 'Constitution of the United Britons' found near to Foster's Mill at Horbury

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On 14th May 1812, the Reverend William Robert Hay , Chairman of the Salford Quarter Session and a rector at Pontefract, came into the posses...

The horror of Foster's factories, 21 years later in 1833

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In 1833, the government conducted an inquiry into the working conditions for children employed employed in mills and factories throughout t...

[After] 9th April 1812: Song titled “Forster’s Mill," Huddersfield vicinity

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Come all ye croppers stout and bold, Let your faith grow stronger still, Oh, the cropper lads in the county of York Broke the shears at F...
Monday, 9 April 2012

9th April 1812: Attack on the Mill of Joseph Foster at Horbury, near Wakefield

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Up until the 9th April, Luddite attacks in the West Riding of Yorkshire had been aimed at smaller establishments, in particular cropping sho...