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Past and present in West Yorkshire
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Whether it happened yesterday, in the last year or last millennium, we explore the curious history of West Yorkshire and its people.
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To find out more about West Yorkshire's fascinating past click on any of the images below:bout the following stories
Lofthouse pitweelThirty years on from Yorkshire’s worst modern mining disaster the BBC programme Inside Out asks if the tragedy at Lofthouse near Wakefield could have been avoided.
Inside the Bronte MuseumEvery year around 85,000 people visit the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth. People enjoy the Bronte novels and want to see the place where they were all written.
Hidden History logoIn a series in which West Yorkshire people look back at the county's hidden history, we report on research which proves the truth of the old Yorkshire saying: "Where there's muck, there's brass!"
Women in a bradford market in 1958In 1958 Bradford-born writer and broadcaster J. B. Priestley made a return journey to his hometown with a BBC film crew. Here are just some of the memorable Bradford images from the programme...
Stuffed birds from the squire's collectionWalton Hall, near Wakefield, was the home to Charles Waterton, a naturalist who travelled the world collecting rare species and created the world's first nature reserve right here in West Yorkshire!
Hidden History logoIn a series in which West Yorkshire people look back at the county's hidden history, we find that Bradford's dead were not always allowed to live in peace.
Montage of mill worker in 1960s and machinery in 2001In November 2001 BBC Radio Leeds went out-and-about looking at the state of the textile industry across the Bradford district...
Bradford war memorialIn the middle of World War One 2000 young men from Bradford left their trenches in Northern France to advance across no man's land. It was the first hour of the first day of the Battle of the Somme.





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