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Do you live in this part of West Yorkshire? Discover its past on NowThen. Explore the maps. Search the workhouse census. Read the poignant accounts of the 1893 Thornhill Mining Disaster. Find out how the other half lived in 19th Century Dewsbury. Find out what children today thought about their Victorian school day experience.
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