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Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: Red and White Rabbit Date: 24 Mar 04 - 02:56 PM Honest Les - I am sure my mum really is that old!!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: Dave Bryant Date: 24 Mar 04 - 05:02 AM Wilberforce used to visit William Pitt who had a house at Keston, near Bromley, Kent. They had many conversations under a nearby oak tree which is still referred to as The Wilberforce Oak. |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: Les from Hull Date: 23 Mar 04 - 06:08 PM RaWR - Your mum must be really old. Wilberforce died about 1823. I think you must be referring to the noted parsimoniousness of Hull City Council. I've had some of that. |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: The Shambles Date: 23 Mar 04 - 05:47 AM Slavery, poverty and culture |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: Red and White Rabbit Date: 23 Mar 04 - 02:13 AM Actually for all he helped in abolishing the slave trade abroad old Wille Wilberforce wasnt averse to keeping his employees working in poor conditions and for slave wages over here! I spent the early years of my life playing in his house as my mum worked at the museum there it is a bit like a tardis lots of bits the public dont see |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: Les from Hull Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:07 PM It took us a bit longer to free the slaves, though. You can visit Wilberforce House in High Street (birthplace of William Wilberforce and an excellent museum celebrating Slavery Abolition) for nowt. |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: Peace Date: 22 Mar 04 - 02:55 PM England officially got out of the slave trade in 1807. |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: Dave Hanson Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:27 AM Must be like the Tardis. eric |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: el ted Date: 22 Mar 04 - 06:02 AM What? How did you get the school in? willys house must have bloody big doors. |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: fat B****rd Date: 22 Mar 04 - 05:59 AM I went to Willy's house with Reynolds Street School. |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: Ben Dover Date: 22 Mar 04 - 05:49 AM Geoff Boycott |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: The Shambles Date: 22 Mar 04 - 05:45 AM Letter-wringing? |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: The Shambles Date: 22 Mar 04 - 05:43 AM He was considered - for his long, letter-wringing campaign to get Parliament to abolish slavery - to be a bore. We badly need more bores like William Wilberforce, and not just in Yorkshire. I wonder who would win the prize of the most boring Yorkshireman of all time? |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: Sttaw Legend Date: 22 Mar 04 - 05:05 AM If you walk down Holderness Road in a westerly direction, turn left towards Drypool Bridge, and then turn first left when over the bridge, you will see Willys' house on the left. |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: s6k Date: 22 Mar 04 - 04:43 AM And orchard park |
Subject: RE: BS: William Wilberforce From: Ben Dover Date: 22 Mar 04 - 04:39 AM West where? Isn't that bit of the country called Lancashire? |
Subject: BS: William Wilberforce From: Dave Hanson Date: 22 Mar 04 - 04:38 AM The anti slavery campaigner William Wilberforce, who came from Hull, has just been named as the greatest Yorkshireman of all time. He got slavery banned throughout the British Empire. I wish he would come back and get it banned in West Yorkshire. eric |