This story was a wild ride, a tale of the dangers of drink and of one woman’s progress from Todmorden to Chester and back again. Plus there’s a cougar. First though, we start with ostler Edward Greenwood. Born in 1803, he married Ann Whiteley in 1824 by banns at St. Chad’s and Heptonstall, since she …
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Oyez, oyez, oyez! Gather round and hear the tale of the OG Tod Town Crier – or what we know of it anyway. Thomas Greenlees was born in 1783 and while his early life is a mystery, we know that he started out as a cotton spinner who made a career for himself working for …
Henry was an interesting chap in his own right, but this is yet another grave where side quests are inevitable and unavoidable when you’re trying to piece things together. When we first began clearing the yard we found a saucepan near this particular grave and someone distractedly balanced it on top of the lancet, with …
What more can we say? James Johnson led a low-key life, only appearing in the newspapers when he died, but his reputation lived on. His other appearance in print is on a page of the Todmorden and Hebden Bridge Historical Almanack from 1896. Imagine a page appearing in your local newspaper detailing the names, nicknames, …
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