Walter Arnold
First person in the UK to be fined for speeding.
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Head of a sacrificed Romano-British Celt found buried in Chat Moss.
Caricaturist, English, Poet, Satirist
John Collier (caricaturist)
English caricaturist and satirical poet (1708–1786).
Oil painting by the English artist Evelyn de Morgan, created in 1903.
Yorkshire
Shoddy and mungo
Manufacture of shoddy and mungo, an early form of recycling, was an important industry in the Heavy Woollen district of West Yorkshire.
English, Female, Witch
Meg Shelton
Reputed witch whose corpse kept reappearing from its grave until it was covered by a large boulder.
One of the earliest motorised scooters.
Nursery rhyme
Wee Willie Winkie
Nursery rhyme about the best-known of the British sleep spirits, first published in 1841.
18th-century English cook, author of The British Housewife.