Bartholomew Binns
English executioner from November 1883 to March 1884.
William Henry Gaunt
English transport engineer who began his working life developing and building gas-powered trams.
John Holker
Jacobite soldier, industrialist, and one of the world’s first industrial espionage agents.
Thomas Linley
English tenor, musician and composer whose musically talented children were described as “a Nest of Nightingales”.
Henry Ernest Milner
English civil engineer and landscape architect
Jennifer Westwood
British author, broadcaster and folklorist.
John Greenwood
John Greenwood (1788–1851) was the keeper of a toll-gate in Pendleton on the Manchester to Liverpool turnpike, who In 1824 inaugurated the United Kingdom’s first omnibus service.
Florence Nagle
Trainer and breeder of racehorses, a breeder of pedigree dogs, and an active feminist
Wakefield Castle
Fortification built in the 12th century on a hill on the north side of the River Calder near Wakefield, England.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England’s poet laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843