Author: Michael S. PottsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780952327080
Category : Clock and watch makers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Potts of Leeds
Author: Michael S. PottsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780952327080
Category : Clock and watch makers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Horse-Drawn Transport in Leeds
Author: Andrew TurtonPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750963158
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The golden age of coaching came between 1815 and 1840 as great road improvements occurred allowing trams, carts and buggies to be towed by horses comfortably. As companies vied for market share, one man stood out above the rest. William Turton made his money as a Hay and Corn Merchant but is better known as a founder and long-time chairman of Leeds Tramways Company and with the Busby brothers, founder and director of horse tramways in ten of the largest cities of northern England. It is an exciting mixture of biography, social history and city politics.
Tracing Your Leeds Ancestors
Author: Rachel BellerbyPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473874017
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Explore the lives of your ancestors in the 'city of 1,000 trades' in this family and local history guide, dedicated to the city of Leeds. Learn how to find out more about the streets where your ancestors lived, where they would have gone to school and church and chapel, how they'd have spent their leisure time, what life would have been like for immigrants in the city, and discover more about the different trades in which your family members were involved.Leeds is home to many different archives and collections, from records of major companies such as Joshua Tetley & Sons, Burtons Tailors and Marks & Spencers, to street plans, photo collections and records of theatres and football clubs. Rachel Bellerby's handbook shows you how to get started with your research, building up an intriguing and colourful record of the city that your ancestors called home. It is an essential guide for anyone living in Leeds or with family connections to the city.
The Bankrupt Directory
Author: George ElwickThe Bankrupt Directory; Being a Complete Register of All the Bankrupts from Dec. 1820 to Apr. 1843
Author: George ElwickCambridge
Author: Arthur William HollandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Publications of the Thoresby Society
Author: Thoresby SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leeds (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Jurist
Author: Archives
Author: The Yorkshire Witch
Author: Summer StrevensPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473863899
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
“A fascinating tale of witchcraft and skulduggery in darkest Yorkshire in the early 19th century. . . . An extraordinary story, brilliantly told.” —Books Monthly On the morning of March 20, 1809, the woman who had earned herself the title of “The Yorkshire Witch” was hanged at York’s New Drop gallows before an estimated crowd of twenty thousand people—many of them victims of her hoaxes and extortion. A consummate con artist, Mary Bateman was adept at identifying the psychological weaknesses of the desperate and poor who populated the growing industrial metropolis of Leeds. Exploiting their fears and terror of witchcraft, Mary was well placed to rob them of their worldly goods, yet she did much more than cause misery and penury. Though tried and convicted of only one murder, the contemporary belief that she was a serial killer is doubtlessly accurate. A meticulously researched retelling of Mary Bateman’s life and death, and the macabre legacy of her mortal remains, The Yorkshire Witch is also a “wealth of social history . . . about the lives of servants; housing conditions . . . the rise in religious fervour . . . the prevalence of superstitious beliefs . . . accounts of early toxicology; how crimes were prosecuted; the treatment of female convicts; and public executions” (Crime Review).