Annals of Yorkshire is in Modern Era.
1818. January 14th. A calamitous fire destroyed Mr. Thomas Atkinson's cotton mill, at Colne Bridge, near Huddersfield, and no fewer than seventeen females, between the ages of nine and eighteen years, perished in the flames, as is recorded on a neat monument erected to their memory in Kirkheaton church yard.
1825. On the 12th of January, twenty-five men and boys were killed by an explosion of fire damp, in the Gosforth coal mine, at Middleton, near Leeds.