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Headingley's lost bear pit
Martin Hamilton from Leeds Civic Trust talks plans for historic Leeds bear pit.
The legend of the Bradford Boar
Janet Senior explains where the story comes from.
The Pontefract Hermits
Andrew Edwards explores the caves carved out by medieval hermits.
The Bramhope tunnel where 24 men died
Andrew Edwards visits the Navvies memorial in Otley
The forgotten treasures of Leeds
Behind the scenes at the Leeds Discovery Centre, home to over 1.3 million artefacts.
The history of Leeds' famous clocks
John McGoldrick from the Leeds Industrial Museum on Leeds’ Potts clocks.
The battle of the Gawthorpe Maypole
Duncan Smith describes the events that took place when the maypole was sawn down
The Todmorden UFOs
Find out how Todmorden has somehow found itself to be the centre of the UFO world.
The lore of the Calderdale talisman
John Billingsley is an expert on the subject of folklore in the Calder Valley.
Leeds’ Quarry Hill flats
Photographer Peter Mitchell documented the demise of the housing complex.
Finding the lost Roundhay Summer House
Rachael Unsworth and Steve Bailey search the park for the lost outbuilding.
The Halifax beheadings
Discover the gruesome history of the 13th Century gibbet.
The history of Leeds' back-to-back streets
Colin and Elizabeth James describe how the terraces came to be so popular in Leeds.
The history of Queensbury Tunnel
This incredible feat of engineering ed Bradford and Halifax when it opened in 1878.
Wakefield tourism's best kept secret
The Chantry Chapel was built in 1356 on the River Calder.
The history of Wakefield's Double Two shirts
This famous attire was the first shirt to come with detachable collars.
The history of Bradford's lost Jowett cars
Andrew Edwards visits the Bradford Industrial Museum to see these local motoring icons.
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.
Pontefract: Home of the first secret ballot box
Why 'potwalloping' and polling went hand in hand, Dave Evans explains.
The curious memorial of Ethel Preston
Ann Lightman of Friends Of Lawnswood Cemetery tells us Ethel's story.
The Halifax man who changed the way we drive
Percy Shaw invented the ‘cat’s eye’ in 1934 in Boothtown, Halifax.
The 330 million year old oddity in Bradford park
Lister Park is home to one of the oldest fossilised trees in the world.
The Leeds hill where you can see York Minster
The long history of Rawdon Billing and its spectacular views across 3 counties.
The history of British wrestling and Yorkshire
Gaz Thompson speaks to Gayle Lofthouse about how wrestling in the UK boomed.
The true story of Halifax's "Tower of spite”
Steve Crabtree talks about the history of one of West Yorkshire's most iconic landmarks.
The enormous arches made of bread
Antony Ramm from The Secret Library explains why Leeds and Rothwell made these structures.
The mystery of the bloody footprint
Mandy Tyas from Oakwell Hall explains the story of Captain William Blatt.
The legend of Elland's headless horseman
Author Paul Weatherhead tells the tale of "Old Leathery Coit".
Shibden Hall and the real "Gentleman Jack"
Historian Angela Clare on the real life and story of Halifax's Anne Lister.
The case of the secret Leeds coin clipper
Chris Nickson tells the story of Arthur Mangy, who was hanged for treason in 1696.
The forgotten women of Wakefield
Sarah Leah Cobham explains her campaign to recognise incredible women in history.
