Day 21 Living Advent Calendar at 22 Constance St home to Jabez Fieldhouse in 1877, ordered at Court to pay 4s a week to Esther Illingworth for his illegitimate child. 7yrs later they married at Bradford Cathedral & had 11 children Buried together in Nab Wood.

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A Scandinavian Happy Christmas on Day 20 of the Living Advent Calendar at 8 Mary St. In 1884 Mary Rushworth 14, a spinner, enjoyed a walk with friends but then fell on her face nr the gate to the park. Pronounced dead by Dr Rutherford, she was carried home to No8.

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At 24 Fanny St on Day 18 of the Living Advent Calendar a perfect festive scene at Christmas in 1901 for James Griffiths, wife Lavinia & two children. 5yrs later James an Overlooker pleaded to stealing a chicken from a Nab Wood field. Caught

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Disaster averted at 6 Jane St on day 16 of the Living Advent Calendar. Santa & his reindeer were re-directed from no20 and were delighted to pose in the window. In 1871 the Harrisons didn’t tell their 5 children they nearly missed out on presents

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Living Advent Calendar Day 10 at 38 George St. In 1871 the parents & 5 Fox children went to the opening of the park & 10yrs later the 6th child, 8yr old Sarah, was the only one not working in the mill. As for Santa, even he needs a brolly.

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Day 6 of the Living Advent Calendar. The wonderful window at 8 Amelia St may have been influenced by Jnr’s trips to Egypt & the Holy Land. 150yrs ago his magic lantern slideshow of his travels entertained the village in Victoria Hall.

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had a built in his 1871 park & would be delighted that live music was still entertaining the crowds during the the annual event first staged in 2003 to commemorate 150yrs of his model village & his birthday, of course! https://t.co/B53TJvuMPR

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I Don’t Belong In This World: On the Saltair Pavilion, Mary Henry, and CARNIVAL OF SOULS -
https://t.co/3lHad6DWyr

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Hosting the royals at MilnerField in 1887, the strain of the loss-making Jubilee Exhibition in is clearly visible on 44yr old He collapsed fatally in his mansion 6 months later. https://t.co/VUWqcfGAmO

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More images of
In 1853 Gallery, by Jonathan Silver
1978 painting by Tony Foster
By Andy Warhol, 1974
With friends in the 1960s, enjoying a fag https://t.co/yQ4jrGy53k

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I Don’t Belong In This World: On the Saltair Pavilion, Mary Henry, and CARNIVAL OF SOULS https://t.co/3lHad6DWyr

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& thank you to all my followers. Freezing Friday in the Japanese Gardens on Shipley Glen, the & on the River Aire at https://t.co/dCiF1byUoi

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7 months pregnant at the opening banquet of Mill, wife Caroline gave birth to their youngest child Ada 1853 in Crow Nest. Ada married aged 29 & had one child. The last of the Salt children, Ada died at home in Bickenhall Mansions, London in 1935. https://t.co/7ciK4CPvhl

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Not welcome in the 18thC Kings Arms, William Nicholson preached temperance in denouncing those who supped the A message supported by who banned pubs in whilst the bar a 1 Victoria Rd would have met with his approval.

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I Don’t Belong In This World: On the Saltair Pavilion, Mary Henry, and CARNIVAL OF SOULS https://t.co/3lHad6DWyr

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Harriet Byles H/T of Salt Girls School would mourn her nephew, grandson of the 1st owner of the Observer, Fr Thomas Byles who died on the Lost too, paintings by Nancy Preston, born in in 1873, artist of Littlebeck Hall, https://t.co/5f6KOP9OJV

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SirJames Roberts of & spent 3 months in Russia every year in the 1880s trading for wool & lost a fortune when broke out. He gave £10k to the University of Leeds for a Chair in Russian Language & Literature.

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