Family Stories
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John Hemingway (1795-1872) of Dewsbury and Menai
The story of John Hemingway of Dewsbury, WR Yorkshire, who was Master Mason on the stonework of the world famous Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait. John was a partner in Nowell, Hemingway and Pearson.
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Tragic Fire at Atkinson’s Mill, Colne Bridge…Subsequent Factories Acts
Account of a tragic mill fire in a cotton mill, that shook the nation and contributed to the first change in the law in the employment of children.
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Richard Wilson’s Long Walk
Richard Wilson of Ossett's long walk to sell his woollen cloth at Leeds Cloth Market.
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George Archer at Passchendaele
Account of one man's war - how a soldier in a Bantam Battalion found himself at Passchendael.
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The Hemingway Family of the Walterclough, Southowram…and a Brontë Connection
The origins of the Hemingway family in Southowram and a connection with the writing of Emily Bronte.
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Medieval Archery
The origin of the Archer name and the the first known Archer family of Dewsbury.
