A very old Establishment down the Skulls head yard (Part 1)

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Tue 23 Oct, 2012 6:06 pm

Yes I agree with that. Seems to me they must have been discovered during a development after Thoresby's time. He was an avid collector of such curiosities and as these two were so close to where he lived I think they'd have been of great interest to him and at least documented by him, if not whipped away for the collection!

Si · Post by Si » Wed 24 Oct, 2012 10:32 am

Yes, I'd agree with that too.

Post by **cnosni** » Thu 06 Dec, 2012 2:01 am

Made you look

Si · Post by Si » Thu 06 Dec, 2012 1:20 pm

You did, Chris. Wouldn't want to lose all this information!

Post by **cnosni** » Thu 06 Dec, 2012 2:07 pm

Si wrote: You did, Chris. Wouldn't want to lose all this information! All giddy now we're back

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Tue 29 Jan, 2013 9:46 pm

I don't think it has been mentioned before on here, but I just discovered that the book "More Annals of Leeds" published by the Thoresby Society early in the last century has an article on the skulls written in 1892!Frustratingly I can't find an online copy and Google only allow an except which is how I found out by searching on their online copy.It is page 52 if anyone can find a copy in the library.The very small excerpt Google allowed was tantalising!

Post by **cnosni** » Tue 29 Jan, 2013 10:31 pm

Steve Jones wrote: I don't think it has been mentioned before on here, but I just discovered that the book "More Annals of Leeds" published by the Thoresby Society early in the last century has an article on the skulls written in 1892!Frustratingly I can't find an online copy and Google only allow an except which is how I found out by searching on their online copy.It is page 52 if anyone can find a copy in the library.The very small excerpt Google allowed was tantalising! Tried searching the Google book reference for the word "soldiers" and "recruits" but nothing came up.I seem to recall that we may have come across it before though Steve,could be wrong,but it rings a bell

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Wed 30 Jan, 2013 1:10 am

Tried searching the Google book reference for the word "soldiers" and "recruits" but nothing came up.I seem to recall that we may have come across it before though Steve,could be wrong,but it rings a bell you need to search for skulls

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Wed 30 Jan, 2013 1:26 am

I'm going on a guided tour of City Varieties tomorrow morning so will pop into The Leeds Li bray (private one) after, as hopefully they will have a copy I can look at or request.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Wed 30 Jan, 2013 1:29 am

See my wondrous discovery on page 85 of this thread from Annals of Leeds. Tasa then tracked down the newspaper article. We sort of came to a consensus that the recruits/pressgang/crimping/hayloft story may have been a 20th Century invention, as this tale wasn't around in 1891 when Radestock wrote his Yorkshire Diary style article in the Leeds Mercury. *sings Circle of Life*