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#DidYouKnow General George Klapka, a leader of the Hungarian Uprising, stayed with #Bradford wool merchants the Hurst family in #Shipley Hall in 1849/50? Very popular with the British public, writer & humorist Jerome Klapka Jerome born #OTD 1859, took his name. https://t.co/E9v2pB5h4e
The #Shipley branch of the Penny Bank est by Sir Edward Akroyd born #OTD 1810. One of the largest #worsted manufacturers & contemporary of #TitusSalt he founded Akroydon village & lived in Bankfield, now a Museum. He was buried in #GradeIListed All Souls #Halifax in 1887.
Cornish Centenary lectures at Sedgefield 30th Sep. Tennant’s Leyburn October 10th and Shipley Art Gallery October 26th details at https://t.co/evXcGounXJ
#normancornish100 #normancornishcentenary #normancornish #artist #durham19
British Pathé has a film of the #RoyalVisit to Salts Mill by George V & Queen Mary #OTD 1918 with shots of crowds at Fox Corner & Victoria Rd. They wrote: “..what a pleasure it was ..to pass through the thickly populated centre of #Shipley & #Saltaire”.
"The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat." -Michael McGarel
Art: Hot Stuff by Sherry Shipley
#catquotes
peepo meets shipley! somethin for @crazyyellowfox
Artist Emily Shipley took her art from idea to product using Sketchable. #DigitalArt #Illustration #SurfacePro #SurfaceArt #Sketchable
Joshua Fletcher’s factory in #Leeds made bottles for his Fletcher’s Sauces, produced at the Airedale Works in #Shipley until 1915. Good on #Xmas dinner, discontinued in the 1990s. #OldBottles
Before St Paul’s was built on an acre of land donated by the #LordOfTheManor, #CofE services in #Shipley were held at Mr Denny’s, now The Old House at Home. Consecrated #OTD 1826 #AllSaintsDay
#Bradford mass poisoning #OTD 1858. 20 dead, 200+ dangerously ill from peppermints made with #arsenic bought in Baildon Bridge #Shipley & sold by Humbug Billy. Acquitted of #manslaughter
Sometimes the things that crawl out of Shipley’s magic pouch aren’t the friendliest. Late comm for @crazyyellowfox
A little something for @crazyyellowfox
Hope Shipley doesn't mind Herbert popping in through his magical pouch to pay a visit.
If you need an illustrator check out my website and shoot me an e-mail! I would very much love to work with you and I would very much appreciate the work! https://t.co/GtSQhD03Ay shipleyillustration@gmail.com
#WorkingClass Nell Kenney #suffragette activist in #Bingley, imprisoned 1907, speaker to 100k at #Shipley Glen 1908 with Emmeline & Adela Pankhurst. #Suffragette100 #Votes100