A very old Establishment down the Skulls head yard (Part 2)
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Another snippet that might throw a light:Diary of a Yorkshireman“... concerts their temporary home for years A READER with better memory than mine has sent 'The Skulls the exact date on which explanation of the two atone ... ”First match of your search in this article.Saturday 07 March 1953 , Yorkshire Evening Post , West Yorkshire, EnglandType: Article Words: 816 Page: 4 Tags: none
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and another:Yorkshireman“... insistent In telling deaf people so. TWO skulls are carved on piece of corroded Relic sandstone , . , embedded some later brickwork In Crown ... ”First match of your search in this article.Wednesday 04 March 1953 , Yorkshire Evening Post , West Yorkshire, EnglandType: Illustrated Words: 587 Page: 4 Tags: none
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Thanks chemimike. Excellent.This confirms the tales that we'd heard had been published by the YEP and adds a bit more detail.New information is the source of the tale of the soldiers, one Mr Thomas Weare, Registrar of Leeds Parish Church [and/or his granddad], and also the claim [contradicted in the earlier version] that the bodies weren't found for many years.I don't think we've had any of that info before.Cheers.
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This information also pinpoints the time of the alleged deaths as being the Peninsula War period, so it also gives a time frame for searching the papers to see if we can finally nail down the story; which is something we haven't had before.well done on finding these.
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