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Showing posts with label milnsbridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label milnsbridge. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 March 2015

12th March 1815: Anonymous threatening letter sent to Sir Joseph Radcliffe

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Sir Joseph Ratclitf March the 12 1815 Ludding is going to Start here again there has been A meetting of croppers at my house but I hea...
Friday, 3 January 2014

3rd January 1814: Subscribers to the portrait/engraving of Joseph Radcliffe

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William Owen's portrait of Joseph Radcliffe On 7th June 1813, the West Riding bourgeoisie had given an Address of Thanks to Joseph...
Wednesday, 25 September 2013

25th September 1813: Joseph Radcliffe is made a Baronet

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On Saturday 25th September 1813, Joseph Radcliffe, the West Riding magistrate and Luddite-baiter was made a Baronet. Nine months earlier, Ge...
Sunday, 28 April 2013

28th April 1813: Tenter belonging to an employer of Benjamin Walker destroyed at Milnsbridge

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Around this date, a Tenter belonging to an employer of the former Luddite turned informer, Benjamin Walker, was destroyed at Milnsbridge.
Wednesday, 6 March 2013

6th March 1813: Thomas Shillitoe visit Joseph Radcliffe and also the families of Joseph Fisher & John Swallow

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On Saturday 6th March 1813, Thomas Shillitoe concluded his visits with Joseph Wood, to the families of executed Luddites, first calling upon...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013

8th January 1813: Shots fired into Joseph Radcliffe's home, Milnsbridge House

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Milnsbridge House today, as depicted by Richard Littlewood (photo used with permission) Three months after a similar attack , and timed...
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...
Friday, 7 December 2012

7th December 1812: Joseph Radcliffe writes to the Home Office about the recent robberies near Huddersfield

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Sir. I had yesterday the honor to receive your Letter of the fourth Instant saying that a correspondent of Mr Lord Sidmouth’s have commun...
Monday, 29 October 2012

29th October 1812: Letter from "Secretary to the Brotherhood" to Joseph Radcliffe, Milnsbridge near Huddersfield

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Joseph Radcliffe Esq Milns Bridge House near Huddersfield J. Radcliffe Esq Unjust Judge This is to inform thee that thy life will be...
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...
Monday, 22 October 2012

22nd October 1812: A new informer appears & Jonathan Dean confesses to being at the 'Rawfolds Fight'

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By Thursday 22nd October 1812, two more statements were sworn before Joseph Radcliffe at Milnsbridge House. The first was from William Hal...
Sunday, 21 October 2012

21st October 1812: The cropper, Benjamin Walker, turns informer & implicates Mellor, Thorpe & Smith in the William Horsfall shooting

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By the evening of Wednesday 21st October 1812, Benjamin Walker, the cropper who had been arrested 4 days before , had reached his limit and ...
Friday, 19 October 2012

19th October 1812: The cropper, William Thorpe, is examined by Joseph Radcliffe

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On Monday 19th October 1812, another West Riding cropper swore a statement before Joseph Radcliffe. William Thorpe had already been put i...
Wednesday, 10 October 2012

10th October 1812: A young apprentice to Joseph Mellor gives information to Joseph Radcliffe, which leads to arrests

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After receiving information from Francis Vickerman via John Lloyd, that possible suspects in the assassination of William Horsfall had been ...
Monday, 1 October 2012

1st October 1812: Shots fired at Joseph Radcliffe's residence, Milnsbridge House

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Milnsbridge House in 1829, a coloured engraving by FR Hay of an original by JP Neale At midnight on Thursday 1st October 1812, the sentr...
Friday, 28 September 2012

28th September 1812: Joseph Radcliffe reacts angrily to comments about his legal cases from Government

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My Lord I had the honor to receive Your Lordship's letter of the 24th Inst this day, & beg not to be intrusive in the following re...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012

16th May 1812: Joseph Radcliffe informs the Home Office about prisoners committed to York Castle

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Sir With the concurrence of My brother magistrates, Messrs G. Armitage & F. Scott, acting in this Neighbourhood, I have the honor to i...
Saturday, 5 May 2012

5th May 1812: Joseph Radcliffe asks the Home Office for powers to seize arms in the West Riding

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Sir It not having been in my power to find any legal power to search for arms, & knowing the demands for arms are nightly made by the ...
Monday, 30 April 2012

30th April 1812: James Haigh is committed to York Castle, charged with attacking Rawfolds Mill

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By Thursday 30th April, the Huddersfield magistrate Joseph Radcliffe had had enough of the cropper James Haigh. Radcliffe had examined Haigh...
Friday, 27 April 2012

27th April 1812: Letter from "A. B." sent to Joseph Radcliffe threatens Thomas Atkinson, William Horsfall and a 'Civil War'

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April 27th 1812 Sir, I thought it my duty as a Friend, to address you with a few lines upon the Perrilous situation of this Country; as ...