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Friday, 24th April 2020
On This Day
Well yesterday in this case!
On the 23rd April in 1605, Walter Calverley of Calverley Hall murdered his two sons, and seriously wounded
his wife, in a drunken frenzy.
He was arrested on his way to murder his infant son, who was with his nanny. After refusing to enter a plea at his trial in York,
he was pressed to death by having heavy stones placed on his chest until he suffocated.
To hasten his demise he was reputed to have screamed out:-“A pund o’more weight, lig on, lig”
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The Legend of Sir Walter Calverley.
Calverley Old Hall - Past, Present & Future.
On This Day
On the 26th April in 1929, the first official Ryder Cup match to be held on British soil began at Moortown Golf
Club, Leeds. The American Team had won the inaugural event two years earlier at Worcester Country Club,
Massachusetts and were heavily fancied to defend the trophy in Leeds.
The US Captain was Walter Hagen, the most successful golfer of the twentieth century. The home side was captained by Scottish
veteran George Duncan and contained a young Henry Cotton who would go on to become the leading British player of his
generation and be knighted for his services to the game.
Despite the unaccustomed weather (there was snow on the ground during practice and it was decidedly cold), the US team took a
2 ½ -1 ½ lead after the first day’s foursomes, contested over 36 holes.
On the second and final day’s singles matches, the British team fought back stringly and young Cotton sealed a famous victory on
the 15th green.
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On This Day - Sunday, 26th April 2020
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When The Ryder Cup Came To Leeds
On this day in 1944, former Leeds United youth player Robert Montgomery was piloting a Lancaster bomber
during a raid to Schweinfurt, Germany. It was his tenth combat mission. The flight path was heavily defended
by German night fighters, one of which flew up beneath Montgomery’s aircraft and raked its belly with cannon
fire- a tactic known as ‘Schrage Musik’.
Montgomery, and four of his crew, went down with the plane to their deaths. The rear gunner (Sergeant Baker) and mid-upper
gunner (Sergeant Mitchell) parachuted clear. Baker was captured but Mitchell escaped through France and into Switzerland
where he was repatriated.
Pilot Officer Montgomery and the other deceased crew members were laid to rest in Bure Churchyard, Meuse, France.
Montgomery was a talented schoolboy centre forward who was signed up Leeds United manager Billy Hampson in September
1938. The outbreak of the war robbed him of a chance of first team football but he played for the reserve and youth teams and
won a Yorkshire League runners -up medal.
Born in Ireland, Montgomery made his home in Beeston. He was only 22 at the time of his death.
Also On This Day:
Sixteen Chipperfield’s circus elephants paraded through Leeds on 29th April 1952. They walked from Leeds Central Station to
the site of the circus on Woodhouse Moor.
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On This Day - Monday, 27th April 2020
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Leeds United In the Shadow of War
On this day in 1943, the body of Dambuster hero David Horsfall was washed ashore in Holland.
Bramley-born Horsfall was a Flight Engineer on board Lancaster bomber, “A for Apple”, which had taken part in the famous raid
on several dams in the Ruhr Valley. The plane was the forth to attack the Mohne Reservoir and one of its bouncing bombs struck
the dam causing a small breach. Sadly, it was downed by flak on its homeward journey and all aboard were killed.
Horsfall is buried in Bergan General Cemetery and is commemorated on the Bramley War Memorial. His brother Alan, also a
member of RAF Bomber Command, was killed on active service in 1940.
Also On This Day…
Evangelist John Wesley was in Leeds on 29th May 1743 during one of his many nationwide tours. During a visit
to the town the previous year, he had found that “no man cared for the things of God”. On his latest visit
however, he observed that:
“A spark has now fallen in this place also, and it will kindle a great flame. At 7 o’clock, I stood before Mr Shent’s door, and
cried to thousands ‘Ho! Every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters!”
William Shent, and his wife Mary, were early leaders in Leeds of what would become known as the Methodist movement.
William Shent owned a barber’s and wig shop at the junction of Briggate and Fleet Street (modern Duncan Street).
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On This Day - Wednesday, 29th April 2020
