See
Halifax house,
Hall-and-cross-wing and
Mytholmroyd Farmhouse
The tack fixed an annual rent in cash or kind and a fixed expiry term.
It also determined whether the tenant could assign the land to a
third party.
For periods of shorter than 19 years, this had to be explicitly
allowed in the tack, but was permissible at the tenant's discretion
in longer term tacks
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Many yeomen's houses – such as
Some more modest buildings also have such doors
Other buildings had a hoist-beam instead of steps, and the
beams can be seen in some instances.
The taking-in doors are now often blocked or converted to
windows
An Act of 1783 abolished tallies in the English Exchequer, but their
use lingered until about 1820.
The conflagration of the Houses of Parliament in 1834 was caused by
the combustion of tallies which had accumulated for centuries
The name is a corruption of the word Italian
See
Oven-bottom cake and
Whitsuntide Buns
Does anyone remember the rhyme?
The large prickly heads of the plant – dipsacus
fullonum – were mounted on a wooden frame and used for carding
and for raising the nap on cloth.
They were grown commercially for use in the textile industry.
They were later replaced by more durable cards, which were
about 12 inches by 5 inches and resembled hand-brushes or
table-tennis bats studded with iron pins.
The process of carding was also known as teaselling
or tazelling.
See
Willying
The term was used because it was believed that the teething process
was a cause of infant deaths
The temperance movement – promoting moderation in, or total
abstention from, the use of alcohol – started in Britain around 1826,
and temperance societies were set up to rescue those whose
lives had been blighted by the demon drink.
See
Salvation Army
It was prompted by a public campaign – known as the Ten Hours
Movement – which was set up 1831 and championed by Michael Sadler, John Fielden and Richard Oastler.
See
A Brief Description of a Tour Through Calder Dale,
Factory Act,
Fielden Society and
Short Time Committee
See
Social classes
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The cloth was fixed to the tenter-frame by means of tenter
hooks, which were L-shaped iron nails about 2 in long.
Many of these were produced by nailmakers in south Yorkshire.
The land on which the tenters stood were known as tenter
fields and tenter crofts.
The name is still found in local placenames such as
Tenter Fields, Halifax,
Tenter Hill Lane, Cragg Vale and
Tenterfields, Luddendenfoot
In the 1720s, Daniel Defoe wrote
In some places, the cloth was simply laid on the ground where it
would be bleached by the sunlight.
In the 19th century, drying was mechanised with the tenter
stove.
See
Stretchergate,
Tenter (occupation) and
Winter-hedge
In poorer districts, these may also be back-to-back with a single
entrance.
The term Row Houses is used in the USA.
See
Blind Back Terrace,
Cornholme, Todmorden and
One-up-one-down house
The name also refers to a list of land owned by private individuals.
A Glebe Terrier listed this information about church
possessions – including tithes
A Tester bed has a wooden canopy over the whole bed;
a half-tester bed has the canopy over only (the top) half of
the bed
See
Elland flags and
Theakstone
Stone slabs used for roofing, rather than slates.
The stones were all hand-struck and produced in a variety of sizes
that had names such as
and were used to tile the roofs of many buildings in the area &
beyond.
These were recorded in the 15th century, and can still be seen all
around the district.
The name is a form of thatch-stone.
See
Elland flags,
Northowram Quarries,
Stone quarrying and
Thacking
This & associated entries use material contributed by Steven Beasley
A member of one of several aristocratic classes between
freeman and Earls,
holding land granted to him by the king, or by lords for military
service.
Thanage was the tenure, land and rank granted to
a thane.
In late Anglo-Saxon England, a man who owned five hides or land, or
more, and who was bound by service to the monarch or – later – the
feudal lord of the manor.
At that time, they were important in the royal army.
See
Social classes
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
See
Dr Bogdan Edward Jastrzebski Edwards,
Louis Stanley Jastrzębski and
George Edward Sutcliffe
See
Light
Charles Horner Limited produced a range, of thimbles under the
brand name Dorcas
The word comes from the Old Norse þorp [a farm].
The symbol # is known as an octothorp and was
originally a map-makers' symbol representing a central square – the
village – surrounded by 8 fields
See
Kirklees ring
The 12-sided brass coin was in use from 1937 until 1971
The throstle could produce enough yarn to support 10 weavers.
The name is said to be derived from the noise which the machine
made – resembling a song-thrush
Compare the hearth-passage design
In contrast, cotton and wool must first be spun
The word comes from the Old Norse throemr
These events are recorded at Halifax / Ovenden / Stainland.
In Halifax, this was an annual fair held which began on Festival
Sunday, after the Feast of St John the Baptist and rush-bearing,
when it was the tradition for friends to visit those who lived some
distance away.
In other places, it was the Sunday after the Wakes Feast.
The Primitive Methodists – the Ranters – held a camp meeting
on Skircoat Moor on the Sunday.
The last such fair was recorded in Stainland in 1933.
It has been said that the name comes from the practice of thumping
anyone who went into a pub at that time and refused to pay for his
drink.
What they did to such people at other times is not recorded!
See
Richard of Mekesburgh,
Rev Enoch Mellor,
Joseph Cawthra Perkins,
Stainland Musical Festival and
Thump pudding
The word comes from the Old Norse tveit [a clearing].
It is usually represented by royd in the Calderdale district
This & associated entries use material contributed by Jen Watson
They are also known as chufa nuts, earth almonds,
or earth nuts, and are the tuberous roots of an African plant
of the sedge family.
They are small with a brown skin and have a sweet, chestnut-like
flavour.
They are eaten in many parts of Africa and are popular in Spain and
Mexico, where they are used to make a drink known as horchata
They were popular in Britain in the early 20th century
A glazed waterproof cloth used for wrapping textiles for despatch and
export.
A tilloter wrapped textiles in tillot cloth, and
then secured the wrapping by sewing
This & associated entries use material contributed by Stan Mapstone
Where precise time-keeping was necessary – as for the times of the
various prayers and offices in monasteries – candles might be
marked with hour-divisions.
A nail might be stuck into the candle so that, when it burnt down and
released the nail, it fell into the base of the candle-stick and made
a noise to wake the sleeper – a simple alarm clock [for a light
sleeper?].
Elsewhere, approximate time could be estimated by the sound of the
bell on the church clock striking the hours.
In rural contexts, this was probably sufficient for most purposes, as
people may have attached less importance to the time than we do today.
From Saxon times until the 17th century, there were also
sundials – these are often free-standing or mounted on the walls of
churches and houses.
It may have been the direction in which the shadow
moves – clockwise – that influenced the movement of the hands
of a conventional clock when these became mechanised [In the northern
hemisphere, that is].
In 1854, as national routes extended, the railway companies lobbied
for a standard time to be used throughout Britain.
In 1880, Parliament ordered the whole country to set its clocks by
Greenwich Mean Time.
In 1884, Greenwich was adopted as the Universal Time Meridian
If Person A subsequently agrees that he will not deliver the
goods, but will pay or receive the difference between the market
price in August and December, that is also a valid transaction.
But if the two agreements are simultaneous, the transaction is
a wagering contract, and cannot be enforced
Some examples are those at
In English, law a right is considered to be immemorial, or to
have existed time out of mind, unless it can be proved that it must
have commenced after the 3rd September 1189, the beginning of the
reign of Richard I
There were several local firms involved in the business
of tinning, including
George Whitehead & Sons
and
Whitehead Brothers
The name was also used for tuberculosis
See
Empress of Ireland,
Wallace Henry Hartley,
Edward George Holt,
Lusitania,
Sunny Vale Pleasure Gardens and
John Henry Turner
See
Rev Charles Musgrave and
Vicarial Tithes, Halifax
See
Frankpledge,
Hide and
Hundred
T Ref 1-1256 T-plan house Ref 1-12 T. R. E. Ref 1-T60 Tack Ref 1-551 Taffeta Ref 1-2939 Taking-in Ref 1-206
Tales, myths & legends Ref 1-380 Tallage Ref 1-T9 Tallow Ref 1-2461 Tally Ref 1-T49 Tally-iron Ref 1-T1 Tanistry Ref 1-388 Tanner Ref 1-2982 Tanning industry Ref 1-357 
Tar macadam Ref 1-T63 Tar water Ref 1-2132 Taster Ref 1-T4 Tea cake Ref 1-1224 Tea Dealers Ref 1-T1100 Teachers' Rest Ref 1-T7
Teacher's Rest
Mother's Pest
Teasel plant Ref 1-260 
Teasing Ref 1-288 Teeth Ref 1-1128 Teind Ref 1-T8 Temperance Ref 1-339
Ten Hours Act [1847] Ref 1-150 Tenant at will Ref 1-1544 Tenant in chief Ref 1-T41 Tenn Ref 1-915 Tenter Ref 1-5
... almost at every house there was a tenter, and almost on every
tenter a piece of cloth ... look which way we would, high to the
tops, and low to the bottoms, it was all the same, innumerable houses
and tenters, and a white piece upon every tenter
Terraced Houses Ref 1-2024
Terrier Ref 1-1439 Test Act [1672] Ref 1-2758 Tester Ref 1-3032 Testern Ref 1-2968 Testoon Ref 1-2983 Textile Industry Ref 1-T56 Thacking Ref 1-T43 Thakstone Ref 1-737
Thane Ref 1-1447 Thegn Ref 1-T22 Theosophical Society Ref 1-2020
Thible Ref 1-T25 Thick Ref 1-684 Thimble Ref 1-1445 Thin Plains Ref 1-532 Third cousin Ref 1-T6 Third penny Ref 1-T18 Thistletack Ref 1-1262 Thorp Ref 1-691 Thread Ref 1-2933 Three Kings Ring Ref 1-1612 Threepenny bit Ref 1-T48
Throstle Ref 1-93
Through-passage Ref 1-43 Throwing Ref 1-1368 Thrown silk Ref 1-741 Thrum Ref 1-267 Thump Pudding Ref 1-746 Thump Sunday Ref 1-743 Thursday Ref 1-T23 Thwaite Ref 1-606 Ticket-of-leave Ref 1-506
Ticket of Leave Passport Ref 1-586 Tide Ref 1-T27 Tiger nuts Ref 1-T12 Tillot Cloth Ref 1-1034 Time Ref 1-2818 Time bargain Ref 1-T34 Time capsule Ref 1-763
Time Immemorial Ref 1-T35
whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary
Time recorders Ref 1-703 Time signals Ref 1-T42 Tingalary Ref 1-T57 Tinplate Ref 1-443
Tiplash Ref 1-1901 Tipping Ref 1-T32 Tippling Act [1751] Ref 1-T36 Tissick Ref 1-791 Titanic Ref 1-T426
Tithe Ref 1-1506
Tithing Ref 1-1241 Title deed Ref 1-1271