53°47′53″N 1°31′52″W / 53.798°N 1.531°W / 53.798; -1.531 Quarry Hill is an area of central Leeds , West Yorkshire , England . It is bounded by the Leeds Inner Ring Road in the east and north and the Leeds – York / Hull railway in the south. The area falls within the City and Hunslet ward of Leeds City Council .
12-589: Quarry Hill is the name of several places in the world: Quarry Hill, Leeds , England Quarry Hill (Hong Kong) Quarry Hill, Victoria , in Bendigo, Australia Quarry Hill (Greene County, New York) , US Quarry Hill (Riverside, California) , in Riverside, California , US Quarry Hill Creative Center , Rochester, Vermont, US Quarry Hill Nature Center , Rochester, Minnesota , US [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
24-477: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Quarry Hill, Leeds Quarry Hill was originally an inner-city area of Leeds . Three churches have historically been located on Quarry Hill. The Old Boggart House was the first purpose-built Methodist chapel in Leeds. It was demolished following the opening of the adjacent St Peter's Chapel in 1834. The site
36-685: Is home to the West Yorkshire Playhouse, now known as Leeds Playhouse , which opened in 1990; Yorkshire Dance, established in 1982; Quarry House (a Department of Health and Department for Work and Pensions building with a social/leisure complex, which opened in 1993); the BBC Yorkshire building; the Leeds Conservatoire (formerly Leeds College of Music); and the Northern Ballet building which opened in 2010. Centenary Square and
48-465: Is marked by a blue plaque on the steps leading to the Leeds Playhouse . Quarry Hill Ebenezer Primitive Methodist chapel, originally called "Chapel Street Chapel", was opened in 1822, new frontage was added in 1846 and the chapel was enlarged in 1874. It closed in 1933. St Mary's Church, a Commissioners' Church , architect Thomas Taylor, was located on St Mary's Street. Located on the top of
60-457: The 1960s and 1970s. The disposal system is distinguished for its water-borne method of refuse conveyance. Conventional waste chutes convey dry refuse from individual flats. With the Garchey system, refuse (ranging from potato peelings and ashes to small bottles and tins) is collected in a unit below the sink in each residential unit through a large plug in the sink. When the refuse has accumulated in
72-546: The Playhouse Square are located at Quarry Hill. The regeneration has seen Quarry Hill become disassociated with East Leeds, and become part of central Leeds. Quarry House was constructed on the site of the former Quarry Hill Flats. Leeds City College built a creative arts and health, care and public services campus, designed by Ellis Williams Architects, on the north-west of the site; this opened in September 2019. Part of
84-682: The United Kingdom. Devised by Louis Garchey, a Frenchman, it was first installed in blocks of flats in France during the 1930s. It was first used in the UK in 1935 after the City of Leeds installed it in one of its housing blocks. A British firm holds the UK rights. Similar systems were installed in various buildings during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. A more sophisticated system was installed in London's Barbican Estate in
96-486: The college building is used by Leeds Conservatoire. The sculpture Ribbons , by Pippa Hale , sits on the site. Quarry Hill is the area where the nurses work in The Steeple Street Trilogy by Donna Douglas. "Agnes finds herself facing unexpected challenges as she is assigned to Quarry Hill, one of the city's most notorious slums" Garchey The Garchey System was an early refuse disposal system in
108-456: The hill, looking over New York Road towards the city centre, and known both as "St. Mary's Mabgate" and "St. Mary's Quarry Hill", the site is now a Diocesan Office. The Sunday school remains, as does the burial ground, a green area sloping down to Mabgate . A past resident of the Quarry Hill area was Mary Fitzpatrick , a robber and suspected murderer. Between 1938 and 1978 Quarry Hill was
120-669: The location of what was at the time the largest social housing complex in the United Kingdom. The building was designed in 1934 by R. A. H. Livett (1898–1959), the Director of Housing and later City Architect for Leeds. Its design was strongly influenced by modernist developments in Europe, specifically the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna , Austria , and La Cité de la Muette in Paris , France . The development
132-429: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quarry_Hill&oldid=1220208400 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732852317984144-484: Was noted for its sheer size and modernist design. It had then radical and modern features such as solid fuel ranges, electric lighting, a state-of-the-art refuse disposal system ( Garchey ) and communal facilities including a swimming pool. Due to social problems and poor maintenance, the Quarry Hill Flats were demolished in 1978. Since the 1980s, Quarry Hill has been a focus for regeneration within Leeds, and today
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