When Joseph Winder was born on 23 December 1855, in Worsbrough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Winder, was 39 and his mother, Ann Beevers, was 33. He died on 6 December 1875, in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 19.
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The Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.
English:
habitational name in northwestern England, from any of several places called Winder in Lancashire, Cumbria, and Yorkshire, especially one in Cartmel (Lancashire), all named with Old Norse vindr ‘wind’ + erg ‘shieling, hill pasture’.
in Sussex and Kent, a topographic name for someone who lived ‘(at the) winding path or ascent’, or by a winding stream, from Middle English wind + the agent suffix -er. Compare Wind 1.
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