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Some gems from the Library & Archives of the Thoresby Society


This section has articles and photographs of treasured items from the society archives :

 COLONEL NORTH’S £10,000 CHEQUE FOR KIRKSTALL ABBEY

RICHARD BISSINGTON’S PASSPORT, 1837

JOHN DIXON’S SKETCHBOOKS

‘THE RIPON MILLENARY’

RALPH THORESBY’S HOUSE IN KIRKGATE, LEEDS

THOMAS HOLLIDAY’S BOOK

Osmondthorpe Hall Painted Glass Panel

A PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED PLAN OF LEEDS, 1792

THE 1832 ELECTION SCRAPBOOK AND PETITION

RALPH THORESBY’S COMMONPLACE BOOK?, 1674





 

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