Potts of Leeds
Company founded in 1833 in Leeds, England to make domestic timepieces , which expanded into the manufacture and repair of public clocks.
Huskar Pit Disaster
Deaths of 26 boys and girls working underground, drowned by an overflowing stream.
Skelmanthorpe flag
Banner made in honour of the victims of the Peterloo Massacre.
Devil’s Knell
Custom associated with Dewsbury Minster in West Yorkshire, England.
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.
Red House
House built in 1660 by William Taylor, whose descendants owned it until 1920. The Taylor family were farmers and clothiers, who developed their business into cloth finishing and became merchants.
Slack Roman Fort
Castellum (fort) in the Roman province of Britannia, which may have been the Cambodunum mentioned as a station on the road between Deva Victrix (Chester) and Eboracum (York).
Akroydon
Model village developed near Edward Akroyd’s Bankfield mansion in Haley Hill, Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The houses are in blocks of six to ten around the park in streets named after cathedral cities.
Copley
Model village built by Colonel Edward Akroyd in the Calder Valley to the south of Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Tickle Cock Bridge
Pedestrian underpass in Castleford, England, under a railway line originally built by the York and North Midland Railway between York and Normanton.