He even heated his home with steam! Model Locomotive 'Salamanca'. Benjamin Gott was born in and died in The factory later became known as Park Mills and employed the largest number of men, women and children. His factory was very organised with workers supervised by Masters. The quality of the cloth made at his factory was known all over the world.
He was so successful that within 10 years he had developed new factories at Armley Mills and Burley Mills and bought Armley House and gardens. Before , clothes were made without any use of machinery. He was a tailor who sold them in his shop and supplied other clothes dealers. He used new inventions like the Singer sewing machine to make clothes. Singer Sewing Machine.
From the s onwards factories were able to make more new cloth for the growing clothing trade with new and improved machinery. As the population of the town grew so did the demand for meat. This meant there were also more animal hides skins supplied to the leather industry. Slightly better off than most working people, the craftsmen, shopkeepers and cloth workers made up the middle classes.
Some of these middle class people did well in business and became very wealthy. They built grand houses, like Gardenhurst in Headingley pictured second row, right , built by the Kitson family. Look at the top photograph of people given charity by the Leeds Mission: - How do you think they felt about needing to go to a charity for help?
Glossary: Industrial - work done on a large scale. A great council to organise everything. And in a world that is slowly becoming a scientific problem beyond any recognisable scale, we need to be careful how we respond to it. By building much needed homes and workplaces, we are using precious resources, but also, if delivered in an unconsidered way, we are potentially compounding the issue and locking in problems for years to come.
But there are ways to control that, and developers like CEG are committed to finding these solutions, implementing them and helping others do the same.
For a plan to have an overall effect, sometimes you have to just join up the dots. If you can translate this ideology, or at least a need for it, to an area of a city, then Holbeck is perhaps a good example. And there might just be an organisation who are about to implement holism in LS11, before our very eyes.
Words can inspire and energise, or they can hurt and reveal the truth. There are many individual words that have been used to describe the Temple Works building in South Leeds over the years; audacious, grandiose, extravagant, unique, innovative, perhaps even incongruous. Each word was appropriate in its own way, but not all of them still seem to apply. Today, you are more likely to use neglected, weathered, hazardous or forlorn. And yet it is still standing, as a landmark of a sort, and its inherent design qualities still exist as evidence of one of the most remarkable construction achievements to come out of the industrial revolution.
Temple is a place where things are happening. It is a rounded development that is essentially about making a place; creating and harnessing a thriving neighbourhood and providing a destination. A new neighbourhood is coming to Leeds. Fresh ideas, new spaces and an injection of people, amenities and infrastructure.
But crucially, building on the unique character and tradition of what is already there. History is everything, particularly when you have got so much. And Holbeck has some history. History is everyday life; people, places, shops and pubs, families, relationships, where we played, where we danced, where we laughed.
History is the fabric of life and the things that shape a place, form a community and make it what it is today. It also provided the opportunity for some key archaeological studies to be performed on the site which was critical to the forming of the Marshall Empire in the late 18th century and the wide scale development of the Industrial Revolution in Leeds.
Negativity can sometimes be used as a crutch to lean on, and stirring people who are finding it harder to be optimistic can take enormous strength and perseverance, and is perhaps not the arena for the easily offended.
When we try to recall what the great industrialists of the 19th century did and how they operated, we rely mainly on historical records, some of which are vague, or partial, or indecipherable. Certainly there is no living memory to help us, and there is very little physical evidence too.
Exporting goods made in Holbeck to the rest of the world is nothing new. There were strategic reasons why John Marshall chose this patch of undeveloped agricultural land on which to spark industrial reform on a worldwide scale in the late 18th century, and likewise the embryonic Northern Monk showed similar forethought in planting their roots in an area that would perfectly reflect an identity drenched in austere perseverance, northern-ness and toil.
John Marshall was a different kind of mill owner. Not just in his ground-breaking implementation of productivity, engineering and raw material procurement practices, or his adoption of visionary design, construction and architectural techniques, but in his treatment of people.
Regeneration is about making lasting changes, and not just in a physical sense. Reversing a decline is as much about building people as it is building office blocks, public realm and mixed-use developments. The prime objective of a regeneration scheme should be to stimulate social and economic change, and that means addressing unemployment, poor housing, poor health, crime rates, a lack of facilities and creating a sense of community. Developing society dictates that work life and family life are very different today than for past generations, and the opportunities available to many of us are far more diverse and aspirational than might once have been the case.
You can set up a business that has a global reach and run it from your spare bedroom, or you can just travel the world with your work if you want to. The Japanese art of Kintsugi is the restoration of broken pottery with the use of lacquer dust or with powdered gold, silver or platinum.
It creates a new piece of art that, scars and all, is considered more valuable than the original piece. In relating this to our everyday lives, it demonstrates that we should be proud of our scars because it is those that make us what we are. Also, we should never discard something and dismiss it as worthless, because everything can be repaired, and sometimes the breaks make the end result more precious.
We might count ourselves fortunate when we consider that human life has existed on the planet for millions of years and yet we are the generation that witnessed the birth of the internet, and teabags, and we even saw Leeds United win a trophy.
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