Lupset Hall Wakefield Civic Society has alerted us to a planning application to turn Lupset Hall into residential apartments: https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=QNLOLTQQLH000 Amongst the 41 documents is a Heritage Impact Assessment which provides a history of the…
Meeting on 10th March, AGM and two short talks on the diaries of a Wakefield draper, and progress on the John Goodchild Collection. Our President Pam Judkins chaired the AGM. The officers of the Society…
Last year there was publicity in the newspapers and on BBC television about Eamonn O”Keeffe’s research into Lupset farmer Matthew Tomlinson’s attitude to homosexuality, expressed on 14th January 1810 in the first extant volume of…
Matthew Tomlinson’s New Year in 1834 From Matthew Tomlinson’s Diary, transcribed with original spelling. He lived at Doghouse Farm, Lupset and was 69 years old. Three volumes of his diary are held by the…
Excerpts from Matthew Tomlinson’s diaries which are held by Wakefield Local Studies Library. At present they are undergoing conservation at West Yorkshire History Centre. 1836 25th Christmas-day once more! – it is also very…
Today, the 22nd November, is the birthday of George Gissing, the notable Victorian novelist, who was born in 1857, and lived in Thompson’s Yard in Wakefield. His novel “A Life’s Morning” transforms Wakefield into fiction…
Talk on John Brearley: an eighteenth-century textiles worker’s view of Wakefield by David Scriven. 14th October 2020 Members were able to enjoy the talk on Zoom that had to be cancelled in April. John Brearley’s…
Influenza in the early 19th Century Excerpts from Matthew Tomlinson’s Diaries. He lived at Doghouse Farm near Lupset. Wakefield Local Studies Library hold three of his detailed and interesting diaries. Spelling and punctuation as in…
An interesting showcase of films about Wakefield heritage, compiled by Wakefield Civic Society. It includes a film about George Gissing and the Gissing Centre describing his life there and his future renown as a novelist:…
The Yorkshire resort of Scarborough has always been popular with Wakefield people, with visits to the Spa for health reasons common in the early 19th century. Wakefield Local Studies Library holds three diaries from this…