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donated £100 p.a (£12,500 today) to the 1864 Crossley Schools & Orphange in established by Joseph Crossley & his brothers, stinking rich carpet manufacturers. Joseph’s daughter Catherine would marry Titus Salt Jnr 3yrs later.

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2019-10-29

bought two cannons from the as features for Park. One of the many stories told is that one was fired 1805 during the Battle of Trafalgar. Another is that they were melted down for the war effort. Mmm

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2019-10-22

To celebrate his birthday in 1857, commissioned 3 trains to take 2,600 of his millhands to the largest art show in Britain, the Art Treasures Exhibition in born 1803

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2019-09-21

Theories why the 1903 statue of has its back to include to prevent the face being hit by stray balls & to symbolise looking at other horizons. But why place him in the line of fire from a cannon?

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2019-09-03

An entry by in his notebook in 1835 of 10 bags of Peruvian wool, the year before he found unsold bales in The raw fleeces carried the woolsorters disease, a killer in & later

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2019-07-09

chased by fisherwoman. Having borrowed her spectacles to examine her wares, Titus walked off with a cod & her specs on his nose. As told in Balgarnie’s 1877 biography.

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2019-06-16

The 1904 Exhibition was to be the greatest seen on this side of the atlantic. Opened by the Prince & Princess of Wales, they drove down Lane to the park where & other textile firms exhibited in the industrial hall.

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2019-05-05

windows by the 1859 London firm of Saunders&Co were installed throughout Jnr’s 12thC medieval style mansion nr in 1869.

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2019-01-21

Herbert b.1840, son of of was buried in 1912 with his 1st wife Elizabeth & her sister Margaret his 2nd wife, in the 1837 Cemetery, which has just secured £6.7m funding to restore it.

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2019-01-19

The led 3,000 mill hands to Station for the journey to for birthday bash at Crow Nest mansion in 1856. but it wasn’t January

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2019-01-08

Jnr released 9,000 trout into the beck at 4,000 into the nr & 2,000 into his father’s lake at his Crow Nest mansion Lightcliffe, nr in 1870

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2019-01-05

St Thomas’ Day the poor went a-thomasing, children in queued for a gift from & were counted twice to make sure no-one had more than one.

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2018-12-22

Suddenly 1887 Jnr, supporter of cremation, found in the billiard room at Heart failure aged 44. Laid to rest in

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2018-11-20

Tidier coiffure for the younger as depicted on the 1856 bust, his present from the workforce, in Once a not so bothered.

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2018-09-02

1,000 on the 1864 Salts Mill works outing went by train to favourite resort where son George showed off his super yacht, Oithona. Victorian

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2018-06-08

Before was built exhibited alpaca cloth at the 1851 Great Exhibition opened 1851. He was advised not to buy part of the building for a weaving shed.

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2018-05-02

These big guns from the that bought for Roberts Park were melted down in Replacements arrive 21 April at noon for shindigs.

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2018-04-21

1812 Dickens parodied the legendary discovery of wool in visited in 1854 & his magazine “All The Year Round’ described village as a “colony”.

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2018-02-08

made cannons inspired by 2 from the bought by will be back in Roberts Park on 21 April. Get ready to pose. https://t.co/nyjFhdAMCp

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2018-02-01