58-707: Leeds Pottery , also known as Hartley Greens & Co. , is a pottery manufacturer founded around 1756 in Hunslet , just south of Leeds , England. It is best known for its creamware , which is often called Leedsware; it was the "most important rival" in this highly popular ware of Wedgwood , who had invented the improved version used from the 1760s on. Many pieces include openwork , made either by piercing solid parts, or "basketwork", weaving thin strips of clay together. Several other types of ware were produced, mostly earthenware but with some stoneware . The pottery produced catalogues of goods in 1783, 1785, 1786, 1794, and 1814;
116-426: A clockwise direction around the city centre. It serves major transport interchanges and both universities as well as the main shopping and financial districts. There have been calls for a second FreeCityBus to serve emerging business, leisure and residential districts in the southern part of central Leeds. Leeds city centre has its main bus station in the east of the city. However, as a rule only buses heading out of
174-466: A day branch in 1912. On 23 February 1931, the new building was opened by Arthur Greenwood MP and Minister for Health. The fixtures and fittings in the interior of the library, with an adult and junior reading room, were designed by Thomas Horsman and Co Ltd, costing £1,049 17s 6d . The building is now Hunslet Library and Community Hub. Crown Point once had a large railway depot which contained Leeds' main goods station. After many decades lying derelict
232-486: A high proportion of the earlier wares were not decorated. Other decorative techniques used include "engine-turning", where the body is covered with coloured slip, which is then selectively removed to create a pattern, and (in the early 19th century) " resist lustre" where parts of the piece are covered before a lustreware glaze is applied. Some black "basalt" stonewares were produced, mostly teawares and after 1790. Many were "engine-turned", with geometric decoration cut on
290-512: A large campus here. Leeds Dock is the city's southern Cultural Quarter. It is where the Royal Armouries Museum can be found, the building was designed by architect Derek Walker and built at a cost of £42.5 million over two years. The museum has since become one of the city's major tourist attractions. The Financial Quarter is bounded by Park Row to the East, Leeds Inner Ring Road to
348-660: A motorcycle training centre. There are several disused railways crossing the roads, which brought coal from Middleton Colliery to the Meadow Lane Gas Works for the production of town gas , before conversion to North Sea natural gas. Penny Hill surrounds Church Street. This is the old centre of Hunslet referred to as Hunslet Grange when the Leek Street Flats (1968 to 1983) were built. The Leek Street Flats developed problems with crime and condensation and were demolished fifteen years after their construction. The area
406-548: A number of grand Victorian buildings that are important in the civic life of the city. Prominent institutes include Leeds Magistrates' and Crown Courts, Leeds Library , Leeds Art Gallery , Leeds Civic Hall and Leeds Town Hall . The town hall was completed in 1858 and opened by Queen Victoria . Leeds Civic Hall opened in 1933 by King George V and is home to the Lord Mayor's Room and the council chambers. Many barristers ' chambers and solicitors' offices are found here because of
464-562: A place to provide people with disabilities some employment opportunities. Its workshop has had several locations, beginning in a temporary location near Chapeltown Road, then to the old disused Whitbread Brewery site at Kirkstall and from 1993 to the present Seacroft location. Leeds City Council was the only local authority to do this for some years but now a small number have followed Leeds Lights example in preparing their own displays where as most other councils buy in their lights and services. The lights are repaired and pressure cleaned annually at
522-501: A reported 4,579 children having been fed by food banks between April 2019 and February 2020. A chapel dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin was built in 1636, and enlarged in 1774. It was a brick structure with a tower. It was enlarged by subscription in 1826. There were two churches built on the site. The Victorian church, of which the spire remains, is the tallest in Leeds, was built in 1864 and
580-483: A rubbish disposal chute leading to huge bins at street level. Hidden in the complex on the second floor were shops and a public house , 'The Pioneer'. Twelve of the blocks were six storeys in height and six were of seven, with the entrance on the second floor. The estate covered a large area of Hunslet and was arranged in three clusters around a small park. The individual flats had large windows and were spacious and light, and were very popular with their new tenants. But
638-507: A surge of 130,000 people enter its doors on the first day of opening. Costing £350 million, and creating 3,000 jobs, this was a major development for Leeds. It was the only major retail development to open in the UK in 2013. It covers 1,000,000 sq ft (92,900 sq m) with has a capacity for 120 shops and numerous pop-up shops . The Calls is close to the River Aire . The area's decline began in
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#1732855940930696-495: A very similar explosion. By 1906 Hunslet was home to Leeds’ second-largest gas works , the city's main rail goods yards, known at the time as Midland Goods Station (now the site of Crown Point Retail Park), as well as a large number of factories. Hunslet was home to the first free public library in Leeds when a branch library opened on evenings from October 1870 in a room at the Hunslet Mechanics Institute. It became
754-404: A wheel. Some figures, rather in the style of Staffordshire figures by Ralph Wood and others, were made, sold plain or enamelled. An impressed mark of "Leeds Pottery" (or "Leeds * Pottery") was introduced around 1775, to which "Hartley Greens & Co" was added from 1800. The earlier wares were unmarked, and attribution of pieces to Leeds is sometimes uncertain (with Liverpool and Swansea being
812-563: Is an inner-city suburb in south Leeds , West Yorkshire , England. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of the city centre and has an industrial past. It is situated in the Hunslet and Riverside ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds South parliamentary constituency . The population of the previous City and Hunslet council ward at the 2011 census was 33,705. Many engineering companies were based in Hunslet, including John Fowler & Co. manufacturers of traction engines and steam rollers ,
870-710: Is first mentioned as Hunslet (sic, for *Hunsflet ) in the Domesday Book of 1086, though twelfth-century spellings of the name such as Hunesflete seem to be more conservative: the name appears originally to have meant 'Hūn's creek', from an Anglo-Saxon personal name Hūn (or Hūna ) and the Old English word flēot 'creek, inlet', probably referring to an inlet from the River Aire (> -fleet : Adlingfleet , Adelingesfluet 1086 ; Marfleet , Merefluet 1086 ; Ousefleet , Useflete 1100–1108). There are also
928-602: Is first mentioned in 1588. Notice : Hunslet is possibly related etymologically to the place-name Honfleur in Normandy, which is probably of Anglo-Scandinavian origin and mentioned as Huneflet in 1025, Hunefleth in 1082 - 87. At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, the manor of Hunslet belonged to the Lacys, from whom it passed to various families including the Gascoignes and
986-597: Is served by Leeds Bradford Airport . This is situated in Yeadon approximately seven miles north -west of the city centre. The city centre is linked to the airport by the A1 bus service operated by Yorkshire Coastliner . The airport serves major European destinations as well as many further afield. Traffic passing past Leeds city centre is diverted away from the main areas by the Leeds Inner Ring Road , an urban motorway passing
1044-535: Is still primarily based around manufacturing and heavy engineering. Newer industries have moved to the western fringes of the area in recent years with the building of new office complexes including the Leeds City Business Park which originally opened with offices for companies including O2 and British Gas . O2 have since moved to Morley . The Morrisons supermarket in the Penny Hill Centre as well as
1102-474: Is the central business district of Leeds , West Yorkshire , England. It is roughly bounded by the Inner Ring Road to the north and the River Aire to the south and can be divided into several quarters. The old town is considered the retail core of Leeds, it extends south from buildings on either side of The Headrow to the River Aire . Kirkgate and Briggate are the oldest streets in Leeds, from which
1160-612: Is the city's northern cultural quarter. Centred upon Centenary Square, landmarks include: NHS England's Quarry House; the BBC Yorkshire building, which moved from Woodhouse Lane in August 2004; the Leeds Playhouse , which opened in March 1990; Leeds College of Music , which moved to its current location in 1997; and Northern Ballet which moved to the area in 2010. Leeds City College also has
1218-482: Is the industrial area around Kidacre Street, Leathley Road, Ivory Street, Meadow Lane and Cross Myrtle Street where Leeds City Council 's Pottery Fields Depot and the former Meadow Lane Gas Works are situated. Pottery Fields House, has the administrative and engineering functions for Northern Gas Networks. Other businesses include Merlin Gerin medium voltage electrical supplies, a scrap yard and Volkswagen auto breakers, and
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#17328559409301276-598: The Hunslet Engine Company builders of locomotives (including those used during the construction of the Channel Tunnel ), Kitson & Co. , Manning Wardle and Hudswell Clarke . Many railway locomotives were built in the Jack Lane area of Hunslet. The area has a mixture of modern and 19th century industrial buildings, terraced housing and 20th century housing. It is an area that has grown up significantly around
1334-982: The John Charles Centre for Sport formerly known as the South Leeds Stadium . The original Hunslet , who played at Parkside, Hunslet , were the first club in Rugby League to win " All Four Cups " in season 1907–08, the Challenge Cup, the RFL Championship, the Yorkshire County League Cup and the Yorkshire County Cup. Only two other clubs have achieved this feat, Huddersfield (1914–15) and Swinton (1927–28). Other local rugby league clubs include Hunslet Warriors , and Hunslet Parkside . Leeds city centre Leeds city centre
1392-631: The M62 to Manchester and Hull. The motorway was completed in 1971, and isolated a large part of Hunslet Moor. Leeds Hunslet Lane railway station was located on the Hallam Line . It opened in 1840, but in 1846 the Midland Railway replaced it with Leeds Wellington station , and Hunslet Lane became a goods depot, which closed in 1972: the area is now occupied by the Crown Point Retail Park. There
1450-413: The River Aire in the early years of the 21st century, especially with the construction of modern riverside flats. It was at one point the main production site for Leeds Creamware, a type of pottery (still produced) so called because of its cream glazing. Hunslet is now prospering as it follows the trend of Leeds generally and the expansion of office and industrial sites south of Leeds city centre. Hunslet
1508-480: The University of Leeds each have a large campus forming an expansive tri-campus area in the north-east city centre, spanning both sides of the inner ring road and expanding into the areas. In addition to the two university campuses there are also multiple smaller education campuses to the area including Leeds Art University , Notre Dame Sixth Form College , Leeds City College and Blenheim Primary School. Quarry Hill
1566-525: The Costco wholesale warehouse on Leathley Road are also large employers. In 2011, Aston Barclay, a car auction group, purchased the former Motor Auctions Leeds car centre on Hillidge Road to further add to the regeneration of the area. According to an article by the Yorkshire Evening Post , 43% of the area's population lives in poverty and it has the ninth highest child poverty rate in the country, with
1624-576: The East, North and West of the city centre. Much of the Inner Ring Road is in tunnels so not visible to passing pedestrians. All major routes into Leeds head towards the city centre. The city centre is served by the M621 motorway . The most notable bus service within central Leeds is the LeedsCityBus service operated by First Leeds and funded by West Yorkshire Metro . This service runs every few minutes in
1682-515: The Hunslet Grange (usually known as 'Leek Street Flats'). Construction of the 350 flats and maisonettes started in 1968 following a widespread slum clearance project in the area. The complex was commissioned by Leeds City Council and built by Shepherd Construction , in a maisonette style with so-called 'streets in the sky' and overhead walkways connecting blocks. The exterior of the buildings were pale grey pebbledashed concrete. Each floor had
1740-516: The Leeds Lights workshop in Seacroft throughout the year. 80,000 coloured lamps are stored at the workshop, and 2000m of coloured rope light are used. A team of 14 works all year round producing the display. From October–January, a team of 9 works to erect the lights ready for the switch on in early November, before removing the lights after Christmas. Commercial advertising has been permitted on some of
1798-484: The Neviles. Hunslet was the birthplace of Thomas Gascoigne , born in 1404 and later chancellor of Oxford University. The brewers Joshua Tetley and Son set up business in Hunslet in 1822 producing beer and bitter today as part of Carlsberg Tetley group. However, in 2011 the brewery closed. In 1823 forty working men from Hunslet raised the sum of £1 5s 1d which they sent to the radical publisher Richard Carlile who
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1856-459: The Old Norse personal names Húnn (Old Danish Hun ) and Húni , cognates of Hūn(a) . The district of Hunslet Carr, whose name is first attested in the period 1175–89 as Kerra , includes the northern English dialect word carr , meaning 'bog' (borrowed into English from Old Norse kjarr , which had the same meaning, but more commonly "copsewood", "brushwood", "thicket"). Meanwhile, Hunslet moor
1914-596: The South Bank of Leeds. Hunslet was formerly a township in the parish of Leeds, in 1866 Hunslet became a separate civil parish , on 1 April 1925 the parish was abolished and merged with Leeds. In 1921 the parish had a population of 71,626. Hunslet, in the lower Aire Valley, is bounded on the east by the River Aire and covers nearly 1,200 acres of flat land. The underlying rocks were coal measures . Hunslet has different areas including Hunslet Moor, Hunslet Carr, Crown Point, Pottery Fields and Penny Hill. Hunslet today
1972-478: The area as well as offering vocational education courses for 14- to 16-year-olds. Hunslet is also the home of Voluntary Action Leeds, the Council for Voluntary Service in Leeds, which provides direct support services and specialist advice to Voluntary Sector organisations across the city. The M621 and A61 , two major roads, pass through the area, providing convenient access to the whole of Yorkshire and access
2030-481: The area was redeveloped into the Crown Point Retail Park, though the main railway cutting into the terminus station can still be seen at the southern end. The former track beds are currently let for storage and contain timber and brickwork. Tetley's Brewery was to the north of this area, as was the Yorkshire Chemical Works: both have now been demolished. Next to the river is Clarence Dock . Pottery Fields
2088-448: The city centre Other headquarters include Asda and Channel 4 . Each Christmas the streets of Leeds city centre are decorated with a variety of Christmas lights . The widely publicised ‘switch-on' ceremony is in early November, when a celebrity flicks the switch to illuminate the decorations at Victoria Gardens and usually attracts tens-of-thousands of people to the turning on ceremony. When Leeds Lights were first established in 1983,
2146-750: The city grew from. Briggate is home to several chain food and shopping chains, was fully pedestrianised in 1996 and connected the two previously pedestrian areas either side of it. The old town can be further subdivided into several areas: the city square; the Victorian arcades (such as the Grand Arcade , Thornton's Arcade and the County Arcade); department stores and indoor shopping centres of The Headrow (such as The Light and St John's Centre ), The Calls' markets ( Corn Exchange and Leeds Kirkgate Market ). Opened 21 March 2013, Trinity Leeds shopping centre had
2204-700: The close proximity to the courts. The area has a number high-rise residential properties and developments, including Sky Plaza and Opal 3 . Altus House is the tallest building in Yorkshire . Other major institutions are located within the Quarter, including the Yorkshire Bank HQ and also the Merrion Centre . Queen Square is also found here. Leeds General Infirmary , the Leeds Beckett University and
2262-494: The completion of a number of developments. is the name given by local government and planning agencies to a mixed-use urban renewal area south of Leeds railway station . Bridgewater Place and also Granary Wharf are within Holbeck Urban Village . The new High Speed 2 station was due to border this area of Leeds, which is why much of the area is considered prime location for development. Financial Hospitality in
2320-494: The early 20th century when industry moved away from the centre outwards. From 1985 to 1995 Leeds Corporation carried out a major regeneration with a careful conversion of listed building warehouses and new build in sympathetic style for a mixed-use area. Many of the area's old industrial buildings have now been converted into modern flats and commercial buildings. Mediaeval Leeds ended at The Headrow , multiple entertainment venues and municipal buildings were built directly north of
2378-543: The first tenants moved in, to be replaced with low-rise council housing, which was largely built around the late 1980s. Low Rise private housing was added in the 1990s and 2000s and a public space known as Hunslet Green occupies much of this space. The area is home to a number of voluntary organisations servicing the community, this includes the Hunslet Club, a youth organisation established in 1940 which provides sport, dance and drama activities for hundreds of young people in
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2436-452: The former Braime's engineering works, all in close proximity to each other. Bewerley Street Infant School, designed by famous Leeds architect, George Corson , opened on 8 August 1873. By the 1950s, the school was for Juniors (7 – 11 Years) and the Infants had moved to a school on Hunslet Hall Road. The suburb has a rugby league club with historic roots in the form of Hunslet who play at
2494-575: The lights, such as The Headrow's champagne bottle lights. Celebrities who turned on the Leeds Christmas lights: Leeds city centre is served by Leeds railway station . The station is one of 20 in Great Britain to be managed by Network Rail . It is the busiest English station outside London, and the UK's second busiest station outside London after Glasgow Central . The station serves national, regional and suburban railway services. The city centre
2552-502: The manufacture of crown and flint glass, extensive potteries for coarse earthenware and the Leeds Pottery. Hunslet Mill, created between 1832 and 1842, is a Grade II listed building. From 1898 to 1935 it was the home of the 25 acres (10 ha) Leeds Steel Works , with four blast furnaces , which was the site of a major industrial accident in 1913, when a boiler explosion killed nine men. Thirteen years earlier, four men had died in
2610-471: The most likely alternatives). The 18th-century marks are often copied in later "reproductions" or fakes. Leeds Pottery has had a long and complex business history. It was created in Hunslet by John Green and Joshua Green, unrelated, around 1756, joined by Richard Humble in 1775 to become Humble, Green, and Co. Circa 1783 a businessman named William Hartley joined the firm, and the firm was renamed Hartley Greens & Co. The company's flint mill at Thorpe Arch
2668-459: The narrower shopping areas of the city. The area's entertainment venues are Leeds Arena , are Leeds Academy , Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House . Millennium Square anchored by the civic hall was a flagship project to mark the year 2000. It hosts regular concerts, with past performers including the Kaiser Chiefs , Bridewell Taxis , HARD-Fi , Fall Out Boy and Embrace . It is home to
2726-401: The new church building surrounding it was built in the 1970s but was demolished in 2019. Other smaller less notable churches exist in the district. The area is also home to St Joseph's Catholic Club (near a St Joseph's Catholic Church that was demolished in 2005 and is now part of the parish of St Margaret Clitherow). Hunslet's redevelopment in the 1960s was notable for the construction of
2784-654: The pattern is somewhat indicative of the development of the business. There are other documents, and pattern books illustrating decoration, in the Leeds City Art Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. By 1790 the company employed 150 people. Leeds wares were lighter than those of most of their competitors, which gave them an advantage in European markets where import tariffs were based on weight. But this trade
2842-418: The popularity was short-lived; the heating systems were inadequate for the poorly insulated concrete prefabricated buildings , the interiors suffered from condensation and the exterior walls became streaked with black. In addition, the "rabbit-warren" layout made the estate hard to navigate and, within a few years, even harder to police. Demolition of the complex started in 1983, less than fifteen years after
2900-456: The switch on was held on the 4th Thursday of November, however it has since been brought forward. The illuminations are renowned as being the largest display in the United Kingdom, spanning over 13 miles of city centre streets and using over 2 million low energy light bulbs. Leeds is notable for designing, manufacturing and maintaining its own Christmas Light motifs. Its workshop began as
2958-429: The west of the city. The Wellington Place development and the wider Wellington Gardens area of the city contain a number of international corporations. Wellington Place is currently under construction. Historically, Holbeck Urban Village was Holbeck 's closest area to the centre of Leeds . Due to the expansion of the city, it is now considered part of the city centre and was rezoned as Holbeck Urban Village , following
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#17328559409303016-507: The west, The Headrow to the north and Wellington Street to the south. It is centred on the Georgian Park Square , one of the green spaces in Leeds city centre. The City Centre Loop passes through the quarter, using City Square , Quebec Street, King Street and East Parade. Leeds Law School is at Cloth Hall Court. Major names can be found in the financial quarter such as Aviva and The Bank of England . The district has grown out towards
3074-667: Was also a passenger station on Hillidge Road: this is gone, but the Station Hotel remains. The railway yard is now used as the Leeds Vehicle Maintenance Facility for Freightliner . An educational hub has been formed in the north of Hunslet, with Leeds City College 's Printworks Campus using the former Alf Cooke printworks building, Leeds College of Building 's Cudbear Street site, the Ruth Gorse Academy , and University Technical College Leeds (UTC) using
3132-566: Was greatly disrupted by the Napoleonic Wars . The final 1814 catalogue had over 200 general items and 48 patterns of tea, coffee, and chocolate services in a wide variety of plain, ornamented, perforated, and basketwork styles; this same catalogue continued with minor variations until a much later period. At this time, annual sales were about £30,000 per year. Although all the standard types of colour decoration were used at times ( underglaze painting, overglaze enamels and transfer printing ),
3190-415: Was in 1814 replaced by a converted windmill on their Leeds premises. In the early 19th century, however, the company went into a prolonged decline and from 1821 was sold repeatedly, becoming in turn Wainwright & Co., Stephen & James Chappell, Warburton & Britton, and finally Richard Britton & Sons, until it finally closed in 1881. Its buildings were then demolished. However, in 1888 production
3248-409: Was redeveloped in the 1960s, the main feature of this being the Hunslet Grange (Leek Street flats). In the 1980s it was again redeveloped, and in the 2000s, the area around the River Aire and Clarence Dock was redeveloped. Aire Park , a 4.9 acres (2 ha) new public open space and redevelopment, is now being planned for the site surrounding The Tetley art gallery as part of the regeneration of
3306-561: Was restarted by James Wraith Senior, who used the old designs and marked his products Leeds Pottery. This business wound down in 1957. Leeds City Council restarted the brand in 1983, making reproduction pieces, but soon had to sell the business. Production was moved to Stoke-on-Trent , and in 1992 after acquisition by John Croft it was renamed Hartley Greens & Co. In 2011 it was acquired by Denby Pottery , and production moved to Middleport pottery, north of Stoke-on-Trent. Hunslet Hunslet ( English: / ˈ h ʌ n z l ə t / )
3364-558: Was serving a prison sentence in Dorchester gaol for the publications in which he exposed the reactionary policies of the government of Lord Liverpool . The subscription was accompanied by a noble letter written by one of the contributors, William Tillotson. The population of Hunslet grew rapidly in the first half of the 19th century becoming an important manufacturing centre. Several large mills were built for spinning of flax including Hunslet Mill , and there were chemical works, works for
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