tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995576795502079366.post6720731565407586534..comments2023-06-08T10:08:58.360+01:00Comments on Leeds Book Club: What I Read During My Holidays Part 1-The LudditesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836771763779415335noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995576795502079366.post-41520272279325014162012-04-18T11:08:45.700+01:002012-04-18T11:08:45.700+01:00someone's being doing their research, haven...someone's being doing their research, haven't they Father :)BookElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13215705150381918855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995576795502079366.post-61784074459117192882012-04-17T20:04:17.299+01:002012-04-17T20:04:17.299+01:00Earlier I tweeted a photograph of @BookElfLeeds at...Earlier I tweeted a photograph of @BookElfLeeds at the Dumb Steeple with said book- her sustenance, together with lamb sandwiches & pop, for our raid on the liposuction centre, see (if it posts properly):<br />@MickHaigh The Dumb Steeple, Mirfield. The meeting place 12th April 1812 for the start of the #Luddites biggest insurrection... http://pic.twitter.com/3XPyfTCw<br />The march took us and, earlier, them to Hartshead church where in 1812 Patrick Bronte was curate, living there with wife Maria. Their children Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Patrick, Emily and Anne being born over the following 8 years.<br />Charlotte’s novel ‘Shirley’ repeats Patrick’s story of the Luddites quietly walking past the church at night on their way to Rawfolds Mill.<br />Legends in the area say that Patrick secretly buried some of those who died, from the injuries received after being shot at the mill, in the Hartshead graveyard in unmarked graves.<br />The 150 marchers met late night on the 11th April 1812 and marched in the early minutes of the 12th April on the mill, bar one who, according to his court plea, ran home to Rastrick, hearing the clock strike 13 as he approached.Mickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15563998953760898520noreply@blogger.com