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| On this
day in 1759 |
Yorkshire Day is celebrated on August 1st and is the anniversary of the Battle of Minden in 1759. It is also a celebration of Lammas a harvest festival when the first bread was made from the new corn.
Yorkshire Day was revived in 1975 by the Yorkshire Ridings Society. |
| On this
day in 1854 |
| Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholls returned to Haworth from their honeymoon in Ireland. They were married on 29th June 1854. |
| On this
day in 1893 |
That posters be put out in the Board's district offering 10/- reward for such information as will lead to the conviction of any person for damaging the public lamps in the Board's district and that two notice boards be put up in the land at the gasworks warning persons against throwing stones and rubbish into the land belonging to the Board around the gasworks.
Extract from Haworth Local Board of Health Minute Book |
| On this
day in 1916 |
That the Council support the Bingley Urban District Council and the Bingley Overseers in their application to the Home Office to be heard on the question of damage to property in the Borough of Keighley in consequence of an Anti German Riot in the month of August 1914, with a view to the damages being done by the Keighley Corporation and not by the authorities in the Keighley Petty Sessional Division as suggested by the Keighley Corporation.
Extract from Haworth Urban District Council Minute Book |
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