The Making of Modern Yorkshire
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Excerpt from The Making of Modern Yorkshire: 1750-1914 In population, in wealth, in importance, the Yorkshire of 1750 was almost as insignificant as the most obscure of its many divisions and wapentakes is to-day. Probably there were no more than half a million people, men, women, and children, within its four million acres. There were no towns of any size. Leeds was a collection of mean streets clustering about an old bridge. Sheffield was a rookery of squalid houses at the foot of a wild moorland. Bradford was no more than a big village closely packed in a hollow of the hills. Hull sent out a few ships from the quays which lay behind its one street of any importance. Scarborough was a collection of fishermen´s cottages, nestling closely together under the protection of a ruinous castle. Harrogate was a hamlet of nondescript buildings, half-inns, halffarmsteads, which stood about a mineral spring, in the middle of a waste. The market-towns, still semi-mediæval in appearance, were little more than meeting-places for husbandmen and hucksters. There was little noise of machinery in the other towns, and little movement in the land; folk stayed, from birth to death, where fate had set them down; of animation, evidence of energy, desire for progress, there was nothing, save amongst a few ardent but unencouraged spirits. In York Minster silence and desolation brooded heavily in the deserted aisles and desecrated sanctuary; within York Castle they hanged strong men for the theft of a groat, or the stealing of a sheep. And on Micklegate Bar, plainly to be seen by all who entered the ancient city, still stood, firmly fixed on pikes, the grisly heads of the Jacobites of 1745. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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