In 1834, as punishment for trying to form a trade union, six farmworkers from the Dorset village of Tolpuddle were sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia.

In 1855, the Queensbury Industrial Co-operative Society began as a "Flour Society"

In 1982, fifteen English cricketers were banned for breaking the international sports boycott on playing in South Africa.

From the Telegraph & Argus of March 19th, 1978...

Firemen were at considerable risk when they had to tackle a blaze in a private garage in which there were two oxyacetylene cylinders. The fire in Eastbury Avenue, Buttershaw completely destroyed the garage and a car but the firemen were able to avert the danger of a major explosion by getting the cylinders out and cooling them down.

From the Telegraph & Argus of March 19th, 1953...

At the annual meeting of the Bradford Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society yesterday, the Director of Borstal Aftercare in London, Mr Frank C. Foster, talking of the general character of young men sent to Borstal, said: "Very rarely is he in the upper stream of educational attainment. He has no ambition in his working life. He is the type who hangs around the chromium-plated snack bar and billiard hall, has had a string of jobs, often is an authority on jive and be-bop and dresses eccentrically with extravagant ties."