The history of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme; with monorial notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clifton and Kirklees (1893)
Turner, J. Horsfall (Joseph Horsfall), b. 1845 · Bingley, Yorks : Printed for the author by T. Harrison and sons · leaf 241
238 BRIGHOUSE, RASTRICK ^lt^JSr of llomititce^ We have laboured thus far to remove the darkness from the DarkAges, and the reader may be struck with one thing, the glamour ofromance and unreality has to give place to a matter-of-fact life verylittle different from that of the public life of to-day.… … Ballad Singeb. AND HIPPERHOLME. 239 We have, however, had glimpses of wars, plagues, fairs, banditti,tragedies, gibbettings, &c., that aiiord the novelist and romancer fullscope to make the old glamour and tournaments return, and perhapssome local Scott may arise, -with wizard wand, to revivify…
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