In the evening of Monday 11th April 1814, the properties of two of the enemies of the Luddites in the Huddersfield area were attacked. The d...

At 10 p.m. on Wednesday 12th May 1813, John Drake senior heard a loud crashing noise coming from outside his house at Longroyd Bridge.  He a...

On Sunday 28th March 1813, six weeks after a similar attack , the Tenters belonging to John Drake, the father of Joseph Drake who gave evid...

Wakefield 23rd Febry 1813. My dear Sir. I went this morning to Huddersfield & fortunately met Mr. Radcliffe, Scott & Armytage t...

John Drake senior was a cropper who kept Tenters at his home at Longroyd Bridge. At some point during the evening of Sunday 14th February 1...