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 242
e worked marvellousresults. One would havebeen pleased if the dyingspeeches of the HalifaxGibbet culprits had beenthus printed and sold. Theballad of the Elland Trag-edies is the best local onepreserved to us. To learnhow the populace spenttheir leisure hours, we muststudy the folk-lore of… … 240 BRIGHOUSE, RASTRICK and other cliurclies were great eucouragers. Bull-baiting and cock-fighting were constant sources of recreation ; and archery, football,and other games supplied the place of the reading and rationalamusements of this day (barring the outrageous football mania ofthe past…
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