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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 777, 20 October 1922, Page 5

The Y crkshire tradesman who, although b:incL has only been stopped, by police interdict '.from 'driving a m<*tor car is something of a prodigy. He can tail!, to an inch almost; where he is in Leeds or Harrogate or on. the road between those towns. But since the days of blind Jack of Knaresborough, the greatest, road makei: - of the No'.Mi blind Yorkshiremen have seemed (says a correspondent in the Manchester Guardian) to delight in proving the loss of sight to be littje handicap, Leeds long had its blind cabinet maker, specimens of whose wdrk found’ their way into foreign courts as well as Enojish mansions. One of Mie _ most famous botanists of the day, again a Leeds mar., is blind, Selby has a blind shopkeeper whoi manages his own business, easily recognising the different art" itj«es. and who . puts in his spa' e Uane tramping the country runnel about and preaching. One of the most eonsiy-ent supporers cn" Huddersfield Town Football Club last season was a blind man- £ who went to every match, and on one occasion supplied , reports of the gam--' to -a newspaper which were wonder fLiy accurate, including detail -’-at "spectators who cou : d see had : particularly noted.