John Eyes of Liverpool surveyed the route, and presented a scheme for a navigation which would use the River Calder from Wakefield to its junction with the River Hebble, follow the Hebble to Salterhebble bridge, and then follow the Halifax Brook to reach Halifax.

They invited the civil engineer John Smeaton to make a new survey, which he did in late 1757, and produced a scheme which involved dredging shoals, making of cuts, the building of 26 locks, to overcome the rise of between Wakefield and the Halifax Brook, and the construction of a reservoir at Salterhebble bridge.

Capital to fund the scheme had been raised separately by the Wakefield and Leeds committees.

Faced with yet another outside scheme which would bypass the navigation from Wakefield to Ferrybridge, the company looked at improvements which would give of water all the way to both Leeds and Wakefield.

He and Wakefield had been working together closely on the New Zealand scheme, he was a convert to Wakefield's colonial theories.

But trusted or not by the politicians, Wakefield was involved in the scheme.

Meanwhile Wakefield was getting involved in a new scheme.

* Bull Ring, Wakefield-central point of the Wakefield town centre, currently under redevelopment as part of a city regeneration scheme.

The crowning feature of the scheme, Sir George Gilbert Scott's white limestone All Souls ' Church ( 1856-8 ) still dominates the area, its lofty spire reaching 236 feet into the Yorkshire sky: the second tallest in the county ( Wakefield Cathedral has the highest spire ).

# The Parent Plot Mr. Wakefield runs for mayor ; and the twins scheme to get their parents back together.

His initial ideas included a system of drinking fountains ( comparable to the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association scheme actually set up by Samuel Gurney and Edward Thomas Wakefield in 1859 ), or a contribution to the " ragged schools " of the Earl of Shaftesbury.

Craven Cottage held the team's largest ever crowd at any ground with 15, 013, at a game against Wakefield Trinity on 15 February 1981.

Earlier in the year, Alison Wakefield married Kevin Webster after discovering she was pregnant with his child.

This Robyn Hode was identified with ( one or more people called ) Robert Hood living in Wakefield before and after that time.

Vernacular texts replaced Latin, and non-Biblical passages were added along with comic scenes, for example in the Secunda Pastorum of the Wakefield Cycle.

In January 2008, it was reported that Marr had taken part in a week-long songwriting session at Moolah Rouge recording studio in Stockport with Wakefield indie group The Cribs.

He grew up living with his grandmother, Anna Mattheus List, in South Reading ( now Wakefield ), Massachusetts.

The colony was based upon theories developed by Wakefield while in prison for eloping with a woman not-of-age.

Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, who was killed at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and his wife, Cecily Neville as well as his son Edmund, Earl of Rutland, who with Richard himself, fell at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460, are buried in the church.

During WWII, GIs from Massachusetts who were stationed overseas shared the cookies they received in care packages from back home with soldiers from other parts of the U. S. Soon, hundreds of GIs were writing home asking their families to send them some Toll House Cookies, and Wakefield was soon inundated with letters from around the world asking for her recipe.

Following the death of Richard, Duke of York at Wakefield in December 1460, his younger sons, George, Duke of Clarence and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, came into Warwick's care, and both lived at Middleham with Warwick's own family.

It is on US 2 with Ironwood several miles to the west and Wakefield several miles to the east.

Wakefield Township is on the east and Bessemer Township on the south ( along with Ironwood ).

George M. Wakefield, his wife and their son Vernon T. Wakefield were the stockholders with a capital stock of $ 50, 000 divided into 500 shares.

The Wakefield ancestry is traced back to John Wakefield, who was born about 1614, probably in Gravesend, County Kent, England and immigrated to Virginia aboard the " America " in June 1635, along with his brothers Richard Wakefield and Thomas Wakefield.

Headed by Mr. Suomi, the Wakefield Memorial Building Foundation was established as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization with the goal of constructing a new, smaller, energy efficient / sustainable building.

In July 2011 the City Council in conjunction with the Wakefield Memorial Building Foundation, decided to remove a roughly theater from the plans for a building.

Wakefield Corner, popular with tourists, is a picturesque hilltop village of antique buildings.

North Wakefield lies along Route 16 on the west side of Pine River Pond near the town line with Ossipee.

CTH O runs north to the Michigan state line and a connection to Gogebic County Highway 519 and a connection with US 2 at Wakefield, Michigan.

The old building at Dalegarth Station near Boot, with Ravenglass-built diesel loco Lady Wakefield

One of these ( 5511 ) was delivered in four-tone blue and white for the X33 White Rose express linking Bradford, Cleckheaton, Wakefield, and Sheffield ; the other five were bus-seated with the usual Gardner 6LXB engines ; three ( 5148-5150 ) had a full roof and two ( 5146 / 5147 ) were convertible open toppers.

In an article entitled " The Personal Voice and the Impersonal Eye ", Dan Wakefield acclaimed the nonfiction of Capote and Wolfe as elevating reporting to the level of literature, terming that work and some of Norman Mailer's nonfiction a journalistic breakthrough: reporting " charged with the energy of art ".

Animism: Respecting the Living World ( London: Hurst and co .; New York: Columbia University Press ; Adelaide: Wakefield Press ).

The most complete is the York cycle of forty-eight pageants ; there are also the Towneley plays of thirty-two pageants, once thought to have been a true ' cycle ' of plays acted at Wakefield ; the Ludus Coventriae ( also called the N Town plays " or Hegge cycle ), now generally agreed to be a redacted compilation of at least three older, unrelated plays, and the Chester cycle of twenty-four pageants, now generally agreed to be an Elizabethan reconstruction of older medieval traditions.

... but when he was in the plain ground between his castle and the town of Wakefield, he was environed on every side, like a fish in a net, or a deer in a buckstall ; so that he manfully fighting was within half an hour slain and dead, and his whole army discomfited.

; these sheds are dotted around the noted " Rhubarb Triangle " of Wakefield, Leeds, and Morley,

Arkham House also published fiction by many of Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself ; classic genre fiction by authors such as William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, and Sheridan Le Fanu ; and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley to whom Derleth gave their earliest publication in hardcover.

For her own part, Margaret's family were far more powerful and secure than they had been in 1454: her father had been killed at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460, but her brother was now Edward IV, opposed ineffectively only by Margaret of Anjou and her son, Edward of Westminster ; this made Margaret a far more valuable bride than she had been as the mere daughter of a Duke.

Hall, had the town site of Wakefield platted in May 1886 ; the general location was already being referred to as " Wakefield " as early as the fall of 1884.

Wakefield was dubbed the " Merrie City " in the Middle Ages and in 1538 John Leland described it as, " a very quick market town and meately large ; well served of fish and flesh both from sea and by rivers ... so that all vitaile is very good and chepe there.

In an earlier draft of the Act, Ossett was to be part of the Kirklees district on the grounds that the area was originally part of Dewsbury ; after an appeal by the Ossett Labour Party, it was decided Ossett would be part of the Wakefield district.

Pontefract has three railway stations: Pontefract Baghill, on the Dearne Valley Line, which connects York and Sheffield ; and Pontefract Monkhill and Pontefract Tanshelf, which connects with Leeds and Wakefield.

The Councillors are: for Frodsham North ; Cllr Rita Shearn ( Frod First ), Cllr Frank Pennington ( Frod First ), Cllr Pammi Taylor ( Ind ), Cllr Allen Wales ( Ind ); for Frodsham South ; Cllr Lynn Riley ( Con ), Cllr Sara Wakefield ( Con ), Cllr Fran Sutton ( Frod First ), Cllr Carol Davis ( Con ); for Frodsham East ; Cllr Andrew Dawson ( Con ), Cllr Linda Brown ( Frod First, Cllr Mark Warren ( Frod First ), Cllr Ruth Redhead ( Frod First ), Cllr Graham Bondi ( Ind ); for Frodsham West ; Cllr Darren Kelly ( Frod First ), Cllr Kyle McGregor ( Lab ), Cllr John Nield ( Frod First ).

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

Changes to the text include a new, albeit silent scene just prior to the Battle of Wakefield where York embraces Rutland before heading out to fight ; an extension of the courtship between Edward and Lady Grey, and the edition of two subplots ; one concerning a mistress of Edward's who he accidentally kills in battle ( an allusion to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Philaster ), the other involving an attempt by Warwick to seduce Lady Grey after her husband's death at the Second Battle of St. Albans ( this is later used as a rationale for why Warwick turns against Edward ).

Gilbert Wakefield had published a Tragoediarum delectus ; and, conceiving himself to be slighted, as there was no mention of his work in the new Hecuba, he wrote a diatribe extemporalis against it.

The number of county boroughs increased over the years ; Rotherham gained this status in 1902, Barnsley and Dewsbury in 1913, Wakefield in 1915 and Doncaster in 1927.

Fleay saw grounds for assigning to Lodge Mucedorus and Amadine, played by the Queen's Men about 1588, a share with Robert Greene in George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, and in Shakespeare's 2nd part of Henry VI ; he also regards him as at least part-author of The True Chronicle of King Leir and his three Daughters ( 1594 ); and The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England ( c. 1588 ); in the case of two other plays he allowed the assignation to Lodge to be purely conjectural.

By now Bronson found that his reputation as a violent and highly dangerous inmate preceded him, as he spent 1975 to 1977 being switched between Armley, Wakefield, Parkhurst, and Walton ; he was taken from Yorkshire to London chained to the floor of a prison van.