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West Yorkshire Map and “Kirklees Cousins” family origins
West Yorkshire 1775 Map Extracts
Maps West Yorkshire Heavy Woollen District 1841, 1903
Map Extracts Earlsheaton and Chickenley 1892-1906
Map Extracts Mirfield and Lower Hopton 1890s
Maps Dewsbury
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Historic Photographs of Earlsheaton
Historic Photographs of Mirfield
Historic Photographs and Memories of Dewsbury
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Dewsbury’s Victorian Town Hall
Halifax (new 2020)
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Thornhill
Upper Hopton
Wills
Hemyngwaye of Southowram Halifax – will extracts
John Archer the Elder, Ossett, Will dated 1757
John Archer the Younger Ossett Will dated 6th August 1803
Thomas Sheard of Ovenden, Will of 1565
William Land of Horbury Will of 1639
Social History
Misdemeanour, Felony and Bankruptcy
Are You Mad?
Archer/Wilson
Archer of Ossett
A Case of Industrial Espionage?
George Archer and the Bantams
George Archer at Passchendaele
Harold Archer in the 15th Scottish Division RASC in WW2
On Education
Richard Wilson’s Long Walk
Sheard/Bottom
16th Century Woolman – Thomas Sheard of Ovenden
Atkinson’s Mill Fire 14th February 1818
Martha Arnold of Woolwich and Mirfield – a possible Luddite link?
Memoir of Brother Frank Bottom
Hemingway
Hemingway of the Walterclough Southowram…and a Brontë Connection
Earlsheaton
John Hemingway (1795-1872) of Dewsbury and Menai
Ancient & Medieval
Ancient People: Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Danes (updated 2020)
Christianity comes to Northumbria (2020)
The Grey Apple Tree (Script of Battle of Hastings 1066)
Medieval Yorkshire (Updated and extended 2020)
Plague in West Yorkshire
Wars of the Roses
Civil War
West Yorkshire in the First English Civil War
First Civil War Battles in West Yorkshire 1642
First English Civil War Events in 1643
Civil War Years 1644-48
Aftermath of the Civil War
The Farnley Wood Plot
The Wool Trade
The Rise of the West Yorkshire Wool Trade
Expansion of the Wool Trade – 16th Century Onwards
Cloth Market and Cloth Halls
Shoddy and Mungo
Yorkshire Coal
History of Coal Mining in Yorkshire (new 2020)
The Combs Colliery Disaster 5th July 1893 (new 2020)
Miscellany
Weighing the World – John Michell 1724-1793
Professor Tom Kilburn CBE FRS – a Personal View of a Remarkable Man
The Bradford Arsenic Poisonings
The Fozzards
Contact
Home
About
Who do you think you are?
Maps
West Yorkshire Map and “Kirklees Cousins” family origins
West Yorkshire 1775 Map Extracts
Maps West Yorkshire Heavy Woollen District 1841, 1903
Map Extracts Earlsheaton and Chickenley 1892-1906
Map Extracts Mirfield and Lower Hopton 1890s
Maps Dewsbury
Images
Living History Photographs
Historic Photographs of Earlsheaton
Historic Photographs of Mirfield
Historic Photographs and Memories of Dewsbury
Photographs of Dewsbury
Places
Almondbury
Dewsbury
Dewsbury’s Victorian Town Hall
Halifax (new 2020)
Kirkheaton
Mirfield
Ossett
Thornhill
Upper Hopton
Wills
Hemyngwaye of Southowram Halifax – will extracts
John Archer the Elder, Ossett, Will dated 1757
John Archer the Younger Ossett Will dated 6th August 1803
Thomas Sheard of Ovenden, Will of 1565
William Land of Horbury Will of 1639
Social History
Misdemeanour, Felony and Bankruptcy
Are You Mad?
Archer/Wilson
Archer of Ossett
A Case of Industrial Espionage?
George Archer and the Bantams
George Archer at Passchendaele
Harold Archer in the 15th Scottish Division RASC in WW2
On Education
Richard Wilson’s Long Walk
Sheard/Bottom
16th Century Woolman – Thomas Sheard of Ovenden
Atkinson’s Mill Fire 14th February 1818
Martha Arnold of Woolwich and Mirfield – a possible Luddite link?
Memoir of Brother Frank Bottom
Hemingway
Hemingway of the Walterclough Southowram…and a Brontë Connection
Earlsheaton
John Hemingway (1795-1872) of Dewsbury and Menai
Ancient & Medieval
Ancient People: Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Danes (updated 2020)
Christianity comes to Northumbria (2020)
The Grey Apple Tree (Script of Battle of Hastings 1066)
Medieval Yorkshire (Updated and extended 2020)
Plague in West Yorkshire
Wars of the Roses
Civil War
West Yorkshire in the First English Civil War
First Civil War Battles in West Yorkshire 1642
First English Civil War Events in 1643
Civil War Years 1644-48
Aftermath of the Civil War
The Farnley Wood Plot
The Wool Trade
The Rise of the West Yorkshire Wool Trade
Expansion of the Wool Trade – 16th Century Onwards
Cloth Market and Cloth Halls
Shoddy and Mungo
Yorkshire Coal
History of Coal Mining in Yorkshire (new 2020)
The Combs Colliery Disaster 5th July 1893 (new 2020)
Miscellany
Weighing the World – John Michell 1724-1793
Professor Tom Kilburn CBE FRS – a Personal View of a Remarkable Man
The Bradford Arsenic Poisonings
The Fozzards
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