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Category Archives: Yorkshire

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Kirklees Priory

Jun 11, 2019Daisy GraceReligious buildings, Yorkshire

Medieval nunnery associated with the legend of the death of Robin Hood.

Masbro’ boat disaster

Jun 2, 2019Daisy GraceDisasters, Yorkshire

Sixty-four people, mainly children, were drowned in the River Don in Masbrough, Yorkshire, on 5 July 1841 when the launch of a boat went wrong.

Elsecar engine

May 26, 2019Daisy GraceCoal mining, Yorkshire

Steam-driven Newcomen-type atmospheric pumping engine still in its original engine house at Elsecar near Barnsley. Designed by John Bargh of Chesterfield, the engine, is based on one invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712.

Salamanca

May 10, 2019Daisy GraceTransport, YorkshireFacebook post

Salamanca, designed and built by Matthew Murray in 1812, was the world’s first commercially successful steam locomotive.

Arthington Priory

Apr 13, 2019Daisy GraceReligious buildings, Yorkshire

Arthington Priory, founded in the mid-12th century, was a nunnery or convent that was home to a community of about ten nuns in Arthington, Yorkshire.

Nostell Colliery

Mar 12, 2019Daisy GraceCoal mining, Yorkshire

Former colliery on the South Yorkshire Coalfield, about four and a half miles south east of Wakefield, on the Nostell Priory estate.

Bretton Hall

Jan 29, 2019Daisy GraceMansions, stately homes & manor houses, Yorkshire

Country house on the north slope of the valley of the River Dearne in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

John Blenkinsop

Jan 5, 2019Daisy GraceCoal mining, Transport, Yorkshire

Mining engineer at Charles Brandling’s Middleton Collieries who patented a rack and pinion system for a steam locomotive and commissioned the first practical railway locomotive from Fenton, Murray and Wood’s Round Foundry in Holbeck, Leeds in 1811.

Tankersley ironstone bed

Dec 14, 2018Daisy GraceMetalliferous mining, Yorkshire

Named from its outcrop at Tankersley near Barnsley in South Yorkshire.

Bentley Grange

Dec 9, 2018Daisy GraceMetalliferous mining, Yorkshire

Shaft mounds and earthworks south of Bentley Grange Farm are the remains of a medieval iron mining site between Emley and West Bretton in West Yorkshire.

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