Beautiful Buldings in Unusual Places.

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Mon 26 Feb, 2007 1:23 pm

I've long thought that the crescent of terraced houses in Holbeck near the Middleton Railway (overlooking the bowling green) and the end bay windowed terrace houses near the rec in Holbeck are beautiful houses and look to be a devent sice. The only problem seems to be the location but with a but of car an attention would be lovely homes. i love milti-storey houses like this but if you find good examples in the better suburbs they are £350k plus unfortunately.

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Mon 26 Feb, 2007 11:30 pm

What do we know about the Florentine chimney and dust extractor that can be seen from the M1 and the railway in Holbeck.I know they were part of the Tower Works and were modelled on Giotto's Florentine campanile and the Lamberti tower in Verona.What was the Tower Works? Who built it?This is an interesting site:http://www.leedscivictrust.org.uk/This has info. but talk about dull.http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descr ... _id=741170

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Mon 26 Feb, 2007 11:31 pm

Sorry, that last link doesn't work.I told you it was dull.

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Mon 26 Feb, 2007 11:39 pm

And....What about the Leeds Workhouse, that's still there at St. James'. The web site has copyrighted images so I can't put them here but I can do this.http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html ... shtmlWould you like to spend a day in the 'Idiotic Block'? I think that might be where I work.

OldBoy · Post by **OldBoy** » Tue 27 Feb, 2007 10:15 pm

Tower works is fantastic inside, it has a tiled room with ornate busts of important people from the time in large ceramic tiles. The busts are spaced out across the whole length of this room.

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Mon 26 Mar, 2007 10:55 pm

I'm not sure if this is in the right thread but here goes.The houses on Woodhouse Lane next to the Merrion Centre aren't particularly exceptional but my Uncle Jim reckoned that during the war they were lodging houses for travelling artistes performing at the Leeds Empire.This is the back view of the houses, they front on to Queens Square. I think they belong to Leeds Met. now.

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Mon 26 Mar, 2007 11:12 pm

What I find interesting is the little outhouse stuck out of the building that is presumably the privy. The one on the left has the soil pipe coming out of it where you would expect but the one on the right has no soil pipe and no patched up brickwork where one might have been. There is a sealed up hatch at the bottom which is just the right size for the night-soil man to get his shovel in to clear out the day's er...produce.That tells us that these would have been earth closets and the houses must have been built before sanitation was brought to the area. They're shown quite clearly on the 1847 OS map complete with privies and interestingly enough, all the sewers are marked on the map. Does that indicate that the map was used to plan the sewers and they'd be brand new at the time?My Auntie Jenny was a sweet lady who never uttered an oath or swearword in her life. She lived all her married life in Leeds but was born and raised in Wensleydale in the thirties. They had earth closets when she was a kid and she always referred to the night-soil man as 'Shit Jim'.This was so incongruous coming from such a delicate gentle creature.

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Tue 27 Mar, 2007 8:41 pm

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Wed 28 Mar, 2007 10:06 pm

I think the mill on marshall street is pretty impressive for a mill, and so not what you'ld expectPictures from Leodis

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Thu 29 Mar, 2007 8:28 pm

This is a fascinating building.The story goes that John Marshall had the flat roof covered with topsoil and then grassed. To keep the grass short he put a small flock of sheep up there.All was well until one of the sheep fell through a glass roof-light and landed on one of the mill girls, killing her outright.