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    • Dewsbury’s Victorian Town Hall
    • Earlsheaton History and Family Connections
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    • Upper Hopton
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    • Archer
      • John Archer the Younger Ossett Will dated 6th August 1803
      • John Archer the Elder, Ossett,1757
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      • Thomas Sheard of Ovenden 1565
      • Michael Sheard Parish Clerk of Mirfield 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
    • Christianity comes to Northumbria
    • Medieval Yorkshire
    • The Grey Apple Tree (Script for a Battle of Hastings 1066 AV)
    • 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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  • 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
    • 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,1757
    • Sheard
      • Thomas Sheard of Ovenden 1565
      • Michael Sheard Parish Clerk of Mirfield 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
    • Christianity comes to Northumbria
    • Medieval Yorkshire
    • The Grey Apple Tree (Script for a Battle of Hastings 1066 AV)
    • 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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  • Medieval Tales of Revenge and The Elland Feud
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  • Historic Photographs and Memories of Dewsbury
  • Who do you think you are?
  • Civil War Years 1644-49
  • Ancient Peoples in Yorkshire
  • Shoddy and Mungo

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    Richard Wilson of Ossett's long walk to sell his woollen cloth at Leeds Cloth Market.

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