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5 Rise Locks – one of the wonders of the waterways on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Bingley
When it was first opened in the 1700’s, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal helped open up the West of England and the great Port of Liverpool to businesses in Yorkshire. When completed in the early 1800’s the canal stretched 127 miles across the Pennines a notoriously...
Samuel Cunliffe Lister – from Bradford Mill Owner to Lord Masham
Samuel Lister was born on New Year’s Day in 1815. He was the fourth son of Mr Ellis Cunliffe Lister, member of an old county family of Manningham Hall. At that time Bradford’s Manningham Lane was merely a rural highway and Manningham an insignificant hamlet. He was...
SIR TITUS SALT – A YORKSHIRE RECIPIENT OF THE LEGION D’HONNEUR.
What an accolade! It reflects his reputation across Europe as an enlightened industrialist who cared about his workers. At his funeral in 1876 local crowds thronged the streets in appreciation of his legacy. Salt had moved his various woollen...
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