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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    wealthy benefactor of the borough of Newcastle. The note-book gives us curious details of the “labyrinth of difficultyes” which beset the matrimonial arrangements, arising partly out of ““my lady’s [Blackett’s] greatness and magnificence,” but mainly out of questions of settlement. In the following January the marriage took place, but it was not till September, 1707, that Walter Calverley made entertainment to “all the neighbouring gentle- men and their ladyes” and two days later to “my tenants and neighbours and wives” “upon the account of my wife’s coming to Esholt.” So that probably that date marks the completion of the house. Thoresby, the Leeds antiquary and historian, came over to Esholt, or, as it was then called, “New Calverley,” in September, 1711, and noted in his diary “the noble and beautiful house lately erected, to which Mr. Walter Calverley is adding gardens and waterworks, etc.” Thoresby, of course, searched for relics of the monastery but was too late. “He could hear of none save Elizabeth Pudsey, the last prioress.” A- stone bearing that lady’s name and some insignia still exists and is built into the wall of the laundry at the back of the hall. Towards the end of that same year 1711, Walter Calverley was made a baronet. Por the rest his memoranda are mainly records of hospitality offered at Esholt to the great folk of the time, Ferdinando Lord Halifax Gn the old building), Dr. Richard Richardson, the botanist and antiquary of Bierley Hall, Dr. Sharp, Arch- bishop of York, the heads of the families of Fawkes, Arthington, Dyneley, Hawkesworth, and others. The only stirring passage in the history was the visit in disguise of Sit William Blackett, brother of Lady Calverley, in 1715. It was the time of the Jacobite rising, and the incident shows us the difficulties of the times. Sir William was “pursued by Mr. Forster and a great many Northumberland gentlemen who were then in arms against King George,” readers of Sir Walter Besant’s “Dorothy Forster’ will remember the part which the Forsters played in this trouble. Their design was to force Sir William to join them, but “he was as much pursued by the King’s forces, who suspected him to be in the rebels’ interest.” “ile told me,says sir William Calverley, “he was no ways concerned nor under any obligations to them, but was not willing to be taken for fear of being committed to prison.” Calverley [89