Wakefield Library Local History Collections

LHC

Wakefield Library Local History Collections

1772-1910

Local history material including:

Ackworth Inclosure Act 1772 and award 1774 (rector's copy) [Ref: 333.2]

Album of letters, programmes, newscuttings, photographs and other ephemera relating to the tercentenary celebrations of Wakefield Grammar School in 1891, compiled by Charles Skidmore of Bradford [Ref: 373.2]

School exercise books of William Hare Gill of Kettlesing whilst at Mrs Potter's Academy, Westsyke Green

School: mathematical problems and geometry, 1848-1853

Extracts from the Leeds Intelligencer and the Leeds Mercury, 1764-1885, compiled by John Charlesworth; index to Notes and Queries published in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, 1879 [Ref: 070.Y]

Runs of local newspapers including the Ossett Observer, 1866-1977

Volume relating to the opening of the public park in Wakefield and the grant of freedom of the city to Charles George Milnes, including bills, tickets, newscuttings and other papers, 1893 [Ref: 352.7]

Newscuttings and articles relating to Wakefield and Yorkshire in general, on all topics including politics, taken from the Yorkshire Weekly Post and Yorkshire Post, 1868-1910

English

Wakefield Library has amassed a quantity of archive material. More may come to light during the stock-check of the stacks. These records, referred to as Wakefield Library Local History Collections, have come from a variety of sources and have differing class numbers, most of which are noted with the descriptions. The generic LHC reference number ('Local History Collections') is not one in use at the library.

William Gill Hare of Kettlesing, Felliscliffe, was born in 1836. He was later a farmer of 20 acres and a Justice of the Peace

Charles George Milnes, born 1842, was MP for the Morley division of the West Riding of Yorkshire 1885-1892. He was instrumental in the establishment of the public park in Wakefield to commemorate the marriage of the Duke of York to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck.