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Hidden West Yorkshire Episodes

    The curious memorial of Ethel Preston

    Ann Lightman of Friends Of Lawnswood Cemetery tells us Ethel's story.

    Pontefract: Home of the first secret ballot box

    Why 'potwalloping' and polling went hand in hand, Dave Evans explains.

    Inside the deepest, longest canal tunnel in the UK

    Standedge Tunnel has been opened to canoeists for the first time in its 200-year history.

    The history of Bradford's lost Jowett cars

    Andrew Edwards visits the Bradford Industrial Museum to see these local motoring icons.

    The history of Wakefield's Double Two shirts

    This famous attire was the first shirt to come with detachable collars.

    Wakefield tourism's best kept secret

    The Chantry Chapel was built in 1356 on the River Calder.

    The history of Queensbury Tunnel

    This incredible feat of engineering ed Bradford and Halifax when it opened in 1878.

    The history of Leeds' back-to-back streets

    Colin and Elizabeth James describe how the terraces came to be so popular in Leeds.

    The Halifax beheadings

    Discover the gruesome history of the 13th Century gibbet.

    Finding the lost Roundhay Summer House

    Rachael Unsworth and Steve Bailey search the park for the lost outbuilding.

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