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      • On Education
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    • Plague in West Yorkshire
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    • Early Cartography and How Ossett-born Christopher Saxton Mapped the Counties
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  • The Wool Trade
    • The Rise of the West Yorkshire Wool Trade
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    • Cloth Market and Cloth Halls
    • Shoddy and Mungo
  • Yorkshire Coal
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    • The Combs Colliery Disaster 5th July 1893
    • Fishers of Briestfield – Coal Miners
  • Miscellany
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    • Professor Tom Kilburn CBE FRS – a Personal View of a Remarkable Man
    • The Bradford Arsenic Poisonings
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  • 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
    • Earlsheaton History and Family Connections
    • Halifax
    • Kirkheaton
    • Mirfield
    • Ossett
    • Thornhill
    • Upper Hopton
    • Wakefield
  • Wills
    • Archer
      • John Archer the Younger Ossett Will dated 6th August 1803
      • John Archer the Elder, Ossett, Will dated 1757
    • Sheard
      • Thomas Sheard of Ovenden, Will of 1565
      • Michael Sheard Parish Clerk of Mirfield Will written on 23 June 1632
      • Thomas Sheard of Mirfield (1620-1671) Family and Will
    • Hemyngwaye of Southowram Halifax – will extracts
    • Will of William Land, Yeoman, of Horbury 1575-1647
  • Social History
    • Are You Mad?
    • Child Labour and the Atkinson’s Mill Fire 14th February 1818
    • Misdemeanour, Felony and Bankruptcy
    • Hemingway
      • Hemingway of the Walterclough Southowram…and a Brontë Connection
      • John Hemingway (1795-1872) of Dewsbury and Menai
    • Archer/Wilson
      • Medieval Archery and the Archers 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
      • Martha Arnold of Woolwich and Mirfield – a possible Luddite link?
      • Memoir of Brother Frank Bottom
  • Ancient & Medieval
    • Ancient People: Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Danes (updated 2022)
    • Christianity comes to Northumbria (2020)
    • Medieval Yorkshire (Updated and extended 2020)
    • The Grey Apple Tree (Script of Battle of Hastings 1066)
    • Plague in West Yorkshire
    • Wars of the Roses
    • Medieval Tales of Revenge and The Elland Feud
    • Early Cartography and How Ossett-born Christopher Saxton Mapped the Counties
  • 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
    • The Combs Colliery Disaster 5th July 1893
    • Fishers of Briestfield – Coal Miners
  • 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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Fishers of Briestfield – Coal Miners

In the 1870-72 Gazetteer of England, Briestfield was described as a hamlet in Lower Whitley, situated on the edge of Thornhill parish in West Yorkshire. Also known at various times…

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June 25, 2021
Family Stories

On Education

The advances in education opportunities over a century and how they affected one family.

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November 7, 2016
Archive, Family Stories

Memoir of Brother Frank Bottom

Memorial to Frank Bottom, a Lay Preacher, who died at the age of 30, in Thornhill, West Yorkshire.

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April 14, 2014
Family Stories, Featured

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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February 24, 2018
Family Stories, Featured

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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February 25, 2018
Plague in West Yorkshire
Plague in West Yorkshire
Misdemeanour, Felony & Bankruptcy
Misdemeanour, Felony & Bankruptcy
Are you mad?
Are you mad?
  • Earlsheaton History and Family Connections

    December 17, 2020 /

    A potted history of the village of Earlsheaton, my Hemingway ancestors' involvement in woollen blanket manufacture there and my own memories of growing up in the village in the mid-20th Century.

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  • Weighing the World – John Michell 1724-1793

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    The story of John Michell, Rector of Thornhill Parish Church near Dewsbury, who was a member of the Royal Society, and who entertained some of the world's most eminent scientists of the18th century at his Rectory. He published ideas in astronomy that were 200 years before his their time and is one of the greatest unsung scientists of his age.

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  • The Combs Colliery Disaster 4th July 1893

    November 19, 2020 /

    The historic village of Thornhill, near Dewsbury, is situated on a hill on the south side of the River Calder. It’s an important historic site and an area called “The Combs” was named by the ancient Celts, who inhabited the region. Thornhill was mentioned in the Domesday Book and, in the 19th century, it was where many of the author’s ancestors still lived and worked, as miners and quarrymen. Combs Colliery was one of several pits in the area owned by Edward Theodore Ingham, a member of the local gentry who lived at Blake Hall, Mirfield. Of his other pits, Hostingley had closed in 1880 and Ings, situated on adjacent…

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