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Showing posts with label raids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raids. Show all posts
Monday, 2 January 2017

2nd January 1817: Poaching raid on Lord Middleton's estate turns into a gun battle, prisoner taken

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In the evening of 2nd January 1817, a raid on the estate of Lord Middleton, near Wollaton in Nottinghamshire, set off a chain of events that...
Sunday, 17 January 2016

17th January 1816: Cloth belonging to Wormald, Gott & Wormald damaged in Leeds

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Some time in the evening of Wednesday 17th January 1816, some cloth upon the tenters at the Park Lane factory of Wormald, Gott & Worma...
Tuesday, 14 October 2014

14th October 1814: Armed attack on the home of Thomas Garton leaves a Luddite and bystander dead

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The home of Thomas Garton had been raided, and six knitting frames had been destroyed , on 4th September 1814. Shortly afterwards, a framewo...
Friday, 11 April 2014

11th April 1814: Attacks on properties of the enemies of Luddites around Huddersfield

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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...
Sunday, 12 May 2013

12th May 1813: Third attack on a Tenter belonging to John Drake

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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...
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.
Thursday, 28 March 2013

28th March 1813: John Drake's Tenters are smashed again at Longroyd Bridge

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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...
Saturday, 23 March 2013

23rd March 1813: Statue of George III pulled down in Bristol

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Between the hours of 9.00 and 10.00 p.m. on Tuesday 23rd March 1813,8 or 9 people vaulted the iron railings surrounding Portland Square in B...
Thursday, 21 February 2013

21st February 1813: Lieutenant Cooper reports an attack on the property of a relative of William Horsfall

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Elland 21st February 1813— Sir I have the Honor to inform you that nothing of importance has occurred to me to report this week. To mo...
Thursday, 14 February 2013

14th February 1813: Attack on plantations belonging to a relative of William Horsfall and another man

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At some point during the evening of Sunday 14th February 1813, persons unknown attacked two young plantations of trees in the Huddersfield a...

14th February 1813: Attack on the Tenters of a relative of a witness at the York Special Commission

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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...
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...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012

24th October 1812: Attack on watchmen at Lindley, near Huddersfield

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Between 11.00 p.m. & 12.00 p.m. on Saturday 24th October 1812, a party of watchmen at Lindley, near Huddersfield came under attack from ...
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...
Monday, 17 September 2012

17th September 1812: Attack on the premises of Colonel Moore at Brockwell, near Sowerby

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On Monday 14th September 1812, the Mill of a Colonel Moore at Brockwell, near Sowerby had been visited by a thief who had taken 20 yards of ...
Tuesday, 4 September 2012

4th September 1812: Gig Mills destroyed at Southowram, near Halifax

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After a hiatus in machine-breaking of several months, destruction broke out in the early hours of Friday 4th September 1812 at Southowram, n...
Friday, 31 August 2012

31st August 1812: Arms raid & shots fired at Brighouse

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Between 11.00 p.m. and midnight in the evening of Monday 31st August, Luddites launched raids at Brighouse in the West Riding. At Thornhil...
Thursday, 10 May 2012

10th May 1812: Building belonging to a cornfactor attacked at Wakefield

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In the evening of Sunday 10th May 1812, the hot-house belonging to a cornfactor called Tootal were attacked at Wakefield. 300 panes of glass...

10th May 1812: The bourgeoisie have their windows broken in Wakefield

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In the 'early morning' of Sunday 10th May, a group of up to 100 men moved down Kirkgate in Wakefield and smashed the windows of the ...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012

17th April 1812: Further disturbances at Carlisle

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The Times of 23rd April 1812 reported that the disturbances there, which had commenced 11 days earlier, were still continuing with the follo...