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Garforth , Kippax & District Newsletter Garforth , Kippax & District newsletter Issue 5 March 2021 Foreword ……………………………..……. 2 News & Events in March & April & Photo competition…………………..….2 Local Interest Group …………….…… 3 February Speaker Report …….……3-5 Leeds Civic Trust & Feedback from Previous talks ………………………..…… 6 Local History titbits………………….…. 7 Down Memory Lane & member requests ………………………………..… 8-9 Puzzle Corner ……………………….. 9-11 National u3a and Endnote ……….....12 1 5th Issue Welcome to this issue. To any with Welsh Celtic bloodline in our membership, a Happy St David’s Day on 1st March. To any with Irish Celtic bloodline in our membership, a Happy St Patrick’s Day on 17th March. As ever, we are looking to provide updates on what the various interest groups have been doing and to highlight what is being planned over the coming weeks. Throughout the newsletter we refer to our Garforth, Kippax & District UƷA website. Following Paul Smith’s resignation as Chair of our committee we are pleased to announce that Julia Almond has stepped up from Vice Chair to take on this role. Julia was the Group co-ordinator but feels the time has come to relinquish this role as stepping up to Chair. It was mentioned at the last monthly meeting and the committee are pleased to say that Heather Mitchell, Convenor of the Craft group, was interested and has agreed to join the committee in this role. Zoom events in March and April in- invite will be sent to all UƷA members. clude: 1.30pm. Help is available on how to use Zoom if re- As all of the interest groups have access to quired. Please contact the committee via the paid version of Zoom, can convenors the website. please contact Graham Isley to book a time Wednesday 3rd March: General Meeting. and to organise ID and passwords that will Our speaker will be Chris Berendt, Chair of be required to be sent to all participants. the Towton Battlefield Society with a talk en- titled ‘The Battle of Towton – what we know If any of our members have a suggestion for and what we think we know’. 1.30pm. If you speakers at our monthly meeting please con- have not received your link for the meeting tact our Speaker Co-ordinator Sandra Daly by email by 27th February, please check the via the website. If contact details are availa- website for details of how to get the link. ble, or where you have seen the topic/ presenter, then please include these in your Wednesday 17th March: Easter Quiz, hosted email. by the Quiz group: a general invite will be sent to all UƷA members. 1.30pm. If you Photo Competition have not received your link for the meeting Seldom can so many of us have yearned so by email by 12th March, please check the much and for so long for the arrival of spring website for details of how to get the link. but soon now it really will be "just around the corner" so at the first signs of its arrival Wednesday 7th April: General meeting. get out there with your camera and take Speaker to be confirmed. 1.30pm. some inspirational shots to enter into our first photograph competition of this year, Wednesday 21st April: General knowledge subject (yes, you've guessed it) - Spring! Quiz, hosted by the Quiz group: a general That's it, simply…….Spring! - Anything that 2 shouts spring to us. Light fluffy clouds and Our local Interest Groups Round-Up blue skies, nature of course, spring cleaning Art Group (does anyone do that anymore). Simply your Topics for March are as follows: interpretation of the word spring and what it 9th March: Flowers means to you this year especially. 23rd March: Animal Portrait You don't need to be a photo enthusiast with Please contact group convenor Jenny Evans an expensive camera. Use your DSLR by all for more details means but photos taken using phones or compact cameras will be fine - We're more For information on any of our interest groups, interested in what's in front of the camera. check the website, or with the group conven- or. Our first photo competition was a great suc- cess with over 120 entries in total and I'm For Convenors: Any updates for any of your sure that we'll exceed that but, this time we groups? Drop us a line or two please. Entries are asking for something different. We are for our next newsletter need to be with one asking you to get out there and take pictures of the Editors by Wednesday 17th March especially for this competition. So, no search- 2021. ing through your old pics please - brand new ones only. All entries will appear on our web- site. Talk: Leeds through the centuries by Rachael Unsworth (MA Phd) of Leeds Please take note of the following entry re- Walking Tours. quirements: • As before, up to six entries per person, Rachael, a former lecturer of Urban Geogra- either as electronic images or prints. phy at Leeds University and has written and • Please give each picture a unique, de- collaborated on several books and publica- scriptive name consisting of no more than 6 tions. This was such a detailed talk we have words that you would like to appear against it extended the normal word limit. Anyone on our website, either as its file name in the who missed this interesting talk about Leeds case of an electronic image or on the back of through the centuries might like to consider a print. joining one of the walking tours. • Optionally, you may give us an addition- al, extended description for each picture. Rachael returned to Yorkshire in the mid • Include your full name. 1990’s and despite spending her childhood in • Please send electronic entries attached Yorkshire, knew very little of the city in which to an email to our Membership Secretary she had come to live. When her younger Graham Isley via [email protected] child started school she started to investigate • If you have prints, then please contact and understand the city Membership Secretary Graham Isley via email or via the link on the Committee tab of our Little is known about Leeds prior to Norman website and we'll send you an address to post times when a census and map of 1086 de- your prints to. tailed a small township of houses next to a The closing date for receipt of entries church with a population of around 200. The will be Friday, 30th April 2021 on the settlement was within the Manor of Leeds stroke of midnight. (the manor house was situated on the site of the current Scarborough Hotel.) The income 3 from the township had been given away by a 1812 well before the famous Stockton – Dar- Norman Lord leaving the manor in poor fi- lington line. Another notable innovator/ nancial state and in 1207 the Lord of the employer were John Marshall who had flax Manor leased “tofts” (parcels of land) to mills, the last and largest being at Temple make good the deficit in his income. Works (which was thought to be the biggest room in the world when built). Marshalls em- These strips of land either side of Briggate ployed over 1000 people across their facto- were progressively let and sub-let and Leeds ries by the turn of the 19th Century. The now grew due to the rapid growth in the woollen derelict Temple Mill building may soon have cloth industry. By 1700 there were around new purpose as it is being considered as the 7000 people living in the tightly compacted new home for a Reading Room for the British “yards”. Local Merchants brought cloth from Library. the outer townships to market twice a week to then be bundled and shipped to the Hum- Alongside the industrial growth was that of ber ports - much of it for export. An improve- the service sector that oiled the wheels of in- ment scheme of the River Aire commenced in dustry: banking, legal specialists to protect/ 1699 and the results of investment during the move wealth around, write/deal contracts, 18th century brought wealth and eightfold im- deal with disputes, insurance and commission provement in trade. and construct buildings. Leeds opened its’ 1st cloth hall in 1711, re- A half mile square area of Hunslet housed placed in 1750 by a 2nd, found not to be con- works that churned out around 19,000 en- venient hence a 3rd ‘mammoth’ building ad- gines from 1830s to end of 20th century. jacent to the current Corn Exchange con- There were 7000 businesses and 150 facto- structed. The 1st cloth hall was forgotten ries during the early Victorian era, workers about, but now rediscovered and it’s remains living in cheap back-to-back housing amidst are currently undergoing reconstruction into the factories and chimneys. Historically, what it might have looked like when built there were 80,000 back-to-back houses originally. A 4th cloth hall was built, but short- (demolished as insanitary during the 20th cen- lived owing to industrialised factory practices. tury), around 20,000 remain today. By 1831 It was demolished, replaced by the Post Leeds had become the 8th largest town in Office, deliberately set further back to leave a England. large open public space for people arriving at the station, in the 19th century. Fragments ex- Dr Baker, the town’s surgeon, who was con- ist as part of the Metropolitan hotel. vinced there was a causal link between the state of housing and prevalence of disease The end of the 18th century and beginning of outbreaks, mapped out the area in the town the 19th brought industrialisation and “firsts”: most impacted by an outbreak of cholera in Benjamin Gott’s Park Mills were first to have 1832.
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