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Showing posts with label john wood. Show all posts
Monday, 31 December 2012

31st December 1812: An informer, 'A friend to peace', sends an anonymous letter to the magistrate, Joseph Radcliffe

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On the last day of 1812, an anonymous writer penned a letter containing information about Luddites in the Huddersfield area to the West Ridi...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012

23rd October 1812: The solicitors Lloyd & Allison visit John Wood's cropping shop, and a new informer emerges

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John Wood's cropping shop, in a photorgaph before demolition in 1891. In the evening of Friday 23rd October 1812, the two solicitors...
Thursday, 11 October 2012

11th October 1812: Joseph Radcliffe questions the household of Joseph Mellor about suspects in the assassination of William Horsfall

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A Caucasian Horse Pistol, likely to be similar to the one George Mellor reputedly brought back from Russia Joseph Mellor, a master cloth...
Wednesday, 10 October 2012

10th October 1812: The Huddersfield manufacturer Francis Vickerman gives information to the Stockport solicitor, John Lloyd

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By Saturday 10th October Francis Vickerman , the Huddersfield manufacturer who lived at Taylor Hill, had already sent 2 letters to General A...
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