Works of sewage disposal : with some historical notes on problems arising in connection with the treatment of effluents from the textile industries, 1870-1931.

  • Bradford (West Yorkshire, England)
Date:
1931
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Credit: Works of sewage disposal : with some historical notes on problems arising in connection with the treatment of effluents from the textile industries, 1870-1931. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    too, seems to have been suspected of Jacobite tendencies, for on one of two occasions he was pointedly challenged to drink AV contusiom tOsthe oretendem and dine iiiceadnetcutssindmeto all his open and secret friends,’ and on one occasion Esholt Hall was searched by the King’s officers. It was unsafe ground, and Sir William Blackett was hurtied off to security in London in the diseuise of a countryman. He tramped across to Wyke, but was so tired when he got there that he bought a horse and took the risk such a possession carried with it. The Blackett interests in Northumberland, which came by the marriage of Sir Walter into the Calverley family, so greatly exceeded in importance the Airedale interest that the son of the diarist became wholly a Northumbrian. He adopted his mother’s surname and even sold his Yorkshire estates. The Calverley properties, including the ancient home of the family which had been the scene of the terrible happenings of the pseudo-Shakespearian drama “A Yorkshire Tragedy,” were sold to Thomas Thornhill, of Fixby, near Huddersfield. For the Esholt estate he found, in 1755, a purchaser in Mr. Robert Stansfield, the youthful son and heir of a then very well-known and lately deceased Bradford drysalter, who for some years had been a keen competitor Purchase by the of Sir Walter Calverley in the acquisition Stansfields. of Idle and Thackley properties coming into the market. Robert Stansfield had previously been the owner of the Paper Hall, in High Street, Barkerend, but this he sold upon entering upon the more imposing home at Esholt. He died without issue, and the Esholt estate passed to a sister Anne, wife of William Rookes, of Royds Hall, and from them to a daughter Anna Maria, who martied Joshua Crompton, of Derby. Their son, William Rookes Crompton, took the surname of Stansfield, but he had no children and at his death in 1871 it passed to a nephew, General William Henry Crompton Stansfield, whose daughters were the vendors of the estate to the Corporation. It is rarely that a century-and-a-half of the history of a great landed estate sees so many descents by the female line. The circumstances are peculiarly interesting because of the old superstition, recorded by the antiquary Spelman, that the possessors of the properties of the dissolved monasteries were 90]