Salamanca
Salamanca, designed and built by Matthew Murray in 1812, was the world’s first commercially successful steam locomotive.
Yorkshire
Convent, Yorkshire
Arthington Priory
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.
Coal mining, Yorkshire
Nostell Colliery
Former colliery on the South Yorkshire Coalfield, about four and a half miles south east of Wakefield, on the Nostell Priory estate.
Country house, Yorkshire
Bretton Hall
Country house on the north slope of the valley of the River Dearne in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
Landform, Yorkshire
Tankersley ironstone bed
Named from its outcrop at Tankersley near Barnsley in South Yorkshire.
Yorkshire
Bentley Grange
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.
Clock, Yorkshire
Potts of Leeds
Company founded in 1833 in Leeds, England to make domestic timepieces , which expanded into the manufacture and repair of public clocks.
Coal mining, Disaster, Yorkshire
Huskar Pit disaster
Deaths of 26 boys and girls working underground, drowned by an overflowing stream.
Custom associated with Dewsbury Minster in West Yorkshire, England.
Capital punishment, Yorkshire
Halifax Gibbet
Early guillotine, or decapitating machine, used in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It was probably installed during the 16th century as an alternative to beheading by axe or sword.
