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Showing posts with label wollaton. Show all posts
Friday, 20 January 2017

20th January 1817: Lord Middleton updates the Home Office about the arrest of suspected Luddites

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My Lord Your Lordship has been already apprized by Mr Rolleston , a Respectable magistrate of this County, that Blackburn (the man a few d...
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...
Saturday, 17 December 2016

17th December 1817: John Wheatley tells the Home Office that frame-breaking is 'falling into disrepute with the Workmen' in Nottingham

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Wollaton Park Nr Nottingham December 17.. 1816 Sir In consequence of an Interview I had with my Lord Sidmouth, in the middle of October...
Monday, 2 January 2012

2nd January 1812: Frame destroyed at Wollaton

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On the evening of Thursday 2nd January, the first stocking frame of the new year was broken. The location was near to the toll bar at Wollat...
Saturday, 24 December 2011

24th December 1811: Clashes at Lord Middleton's Estate at Wollaton

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Late on Tuesday 24th December, a group of 18 men deliberately trespassed onto the land of Lord Middleton, near Wollaton in Nottinghamshire. ...
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