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1. 17 Wharf Street 6. Corner of Briggate & Duncan Street 11. 3 Albion Place 16. Dripping Riot 1865 21. Corner of Cookridge Street & Portland Gate Leeds Civic Trust Old King’s Arms Inn, Briggate The Leeds Club 1852 The Coliseum, Suffragette Riot, 10 October 1908 Eliza Stafford worked as cook to the surgeon and Established over 50-years ago, the Trust has Turnpike Riot 1753 - Also known as ‘The Leeds Fight,’ Founded in 1849, moved into premises on Albion magistrate Henry Chorley. He discovered she was On this day Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was campaigned for - and succeeded in - preserving and this began when protestors assembled outside the Place in 1852. Said to have been the equal of “any stealing dripping from his kitchen and brought charges due to speak at the Coliseum on Cookridge Street. improving heritage sites in Leeds: including Kirkgate Old Kings Arms pub on Briggate, with the intention clubhouse out of London,” the Club ensured exclusivity against her. She was found guilty and imprisoned for a The police were worried the Suffragettes would try Market, the Bank of England site on South Parade, of liberating people held by the borough magistrates with a very high annual subscription fee: approximately month in Armley Prison. The case brought much public to disrupt the event. Jennie Baines, a suffragette and the first White Cloth Hall. They are responsible for for the crime of destroying toll bars at Halton Dial and £6 a year, while the Leeds Radical Universal Suffrage sympathy for Eliza and on February 22, the day of her from Stockport, was addressing the crowd who had erecting Blue Plaques in the city - to commemorate Beeston. After seeing the crowd break windows in an Association, a working-class Chartist organisation, release, a huge crowd gathered at the prison gates gathered outside to call for women’s suffrage. At and celebrate people and buildings of historical effort to free the prisoners, the magistrates ordered charged the equivalent of forty-eight pence for their to greet her. Eliza had already left the prison and, the same time, a meeting of unemployed men had importance. out a troop of dragoons, who shot and killed at least yearly subscription. Club members were spread once the crowds discovered this, a large portion made been called by the Leeds Permanent Committee 10 people (with another 27 injured). The same site across the political spectrum of Leeds during the their way to Chorley’s house on Park Square. Here, on Unemployment, with Mr Alfred Kitson as chair. 2. Corner of Kirkgate & Harper Street was later the home of the influential Leeds Mercury late 19th- century; one can only guess at the nature the crowd grew in size and the police presence grew Around 600 men marched from Victoria Square to Green Man Pub & Green Parrot newspaper. and importance of the conversations, deals, and accordingly. Windows were smashed, with stones Cookridge Street, where the two groups met. Baines arrangements which took place there. and bricks thrown at the police who had sent for is reported to have encouraged the large crowd to Military Riot 1844 - In June 1844 reports of soldiers 7. Briggate reinforcements. One man was trampled by the police make a rush on the Coliseum. Several were arrested from the 70th Infantry attacking members of the public Lady Ludd Riots, August 1812 12. Covered entrance, Albion St & Trinity Arcade and later died of his injuries, while several others were - including Kitson and Baines - but police stopped led to an outbreak of violence at the Green Man pub. The Music Hall 1858 arrested. the riot from getting out of hand; the only reported Police arriving to arrest the soldiers were booed by an These took place on Briggate at the height of summer, damage was a broken window. anti-police crowd and a fight ensued, leading to the when a group of women and boys marched through On the 14th December 1858 a meeting was held at 17. 33 Park Square release of the prisoners. They were later recaptured the street attacking corn merchants in protest at the Music Hall on Albion Street to protest against Leeds Tailoress’ Strike 1889 22. Calverley Street & Great George Street along with others, convicted and imprisoned. A perceived high prices. The group was led by a figure the British opium trade with India and China. The Leeds School Board 1879-81 barracks confinement order was disobeyed and many styling themselves as ‘Lady Ludd’ – named after meeting was chaired by Edward Baines and gentlemen Messrs. Arthur & Co Ltd tailoring works were based armed soldiers subsequently gathered at the Green ‘Ned Ludd’, the (possibly mythological) personage including Arthur Lupton, William Hey and Wilson at 33 Park Square: the scene of the 1889 Tailoress’ The Leeds School Board building was designed by Parrot pub, with the police faring worse in the ensuing said to have inspired the Luddites by his breaking of Armistead were in attendance. The meeting heard Strike. The strike began on October 22, when over 600 George Corson and opened in 1881 (Corson was riots. Order was eventually restored, with further machinery. Some have speculated that ‘Lady Ludd’ how the opium trade was the source of “much misery workers at Arthur & Co. stopped work. The workers also responsible for the neighbouring Municipal battles on Briggate between a mob and police halted was a male protestor dressed as a woman to evade and demoralisation” to the inhabitants of China. were frustrated at a draconian system of fines and Building). As well as a significant site of local power by cutlass-wielding constables. identification; others have suggested that Alice Mann Resolutions were passed and it was agreed to petition deductions, especially the charge of 1 penny in a in its own right, the School Board was also briefly (see point 4) may have been ‘playing’ the character. Parliament - condemning the trade and calling for its shilling for the use of power to run the machines. home to a notorious 19th- century radical: John De 3. Corn Exchange suppression. Isabella Ford, the social reformer and suffragist, spoke Morgan. De Morgan, whose biography is shrouded 8. Briggate out on behalf of the tailoresses and public collections in mystery, was elected to the School Board in 1879, General Strike 1929 - On the 5th and 6th of May Peterloo demonstration 1819 13. Bottom of Park Row were made to ensure the strike continued. The strike just two years after leading a mass demonstration disturbances occurred in the town centre due to the Park Row Courthouse lasted 6-weeks, but the women were eventually forced on Hunslet Moor, in protest at the encroachment of continued operation of some trams and buses on a In September 1819 crowds gathered in Leeds to to return to work. private railway lines onto ‘common land’. De Morgan reduced service. On the first day, a tram was forced to mark their “abhorrence of the outrage committed The Courthouse, designed by Thomas Taylor, was later unsuccessfully campaigned in 1880 to be stop as its windows were smashed by lumps of coal. on our peaceable and unoffending countrymen” at located at the bottom of Park Row and was first 18. Westgate & Great George Street elected MP for Leeds. The next day trams and buses were again stoned. the infamous Peterloo Massacre in Manchester. opened in 1813, replacing the courts in the Moot Hall, Clothing strike 1970 Violet Snowden, one of those arrested, was told by a Newspapers from the time record around 30,000 Briggate. The Rotation Office, formerly on Kirkgate 23. Calverley Street magistrate: “You women ought to use your influence to demonstrators gathering at noon in the streets around and where Magistrates made decisions before going to In February 1970, textile workers in Leeds began an The Battle of Holbeck Moor 1936 keep the menfolk quiet”. Briggate, before proceeding to Hunslet Moor, where trial, was moved to the new Park Row Courthouse. unofficial strike in support of their demand for a shilling speeches were made in defence of “our murdered The Courthouse had a small prison with thirteen cells an hour pay increase. The strike snowballed, with On September 27 1936, the British Union of Fascists 4. Corner of New Market Street & Central Road friends at Manchester” – prominent among them were for inmates awaiting trial, while four fire-engines were workers attracting further support as they marched marched from Calverley Street to Holbeck Moor for a Rotation Office Kirkgate – late 1700s, early 1800s representatives of ‘Female Reformers’; including housed in the basement. The great room could hold from clothing factory to clothing factory - until more Fascist rally. Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Isabella Blackburn, who delivered an inspiring eight-hundred people and was used for both court than 20,000 people were involved, the majority of them Union of Fascists, marched with over one-thousand This was a brick building in a narrow yard, named “Address of the Female Reformers of Leeds to Their hearings and public meetings. After the courts were women. The strike originated at the John Collier Ltd. Blackshirt supporters to Holbeck Moor. Opposition for the magistrates who attended here, in ‘rotation’, Townsmen”. moved to the Leeds Town Hall in 1861, the Courthouse factories in Kirkstall; from there workers marched into to the event had been organised and publicised by to hear cases that came within the jurisdiction of the became the Post Office, before demolition in 1901. Leeds, where they gathered supporters at Headrow the Communist Party some days previously and, borough - but which did not justify the need for a jury. 9. Corner of Briggate & King Edward Street Clothes on Westgate and Marlbeck Fashions, near St.

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