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Water Hall was a large building situated between Water Lane and what is now Canal Wharf. According to a Leeds Mercury report of 1899 the house had been owned by the Quaker family, Kay. James Kay built Water Hall Mills which was said at that time to be the oldest mill property in Leeds. He also had a shop in Lowerhead Row selling flax and line. Water Hall itself was described as a very old gentleman's residence, marked on an old corporation map of 1781. The late son of James Kay, Joshua Kay, (listed in the 1851 Leeds Directory) who resided at Water Hall was mentioned in the Leeds Mercury in 1891 in an article about the Quaker burial ground between Water Lane and Great Wilson Street. He was remembered fondly as Jossy Kay, a "kind, corpulent, honest old bachelor who was so indiscreetly and indescriminately charitable that his house was beset with beggars of every description who knew his weakness and dogged his footsteps at every turn". On 17th February 1923 Water Hall was reported in the Yorkshire Evening Post as being connected to 'a house of entertainment' called Pasture Spring, a kind of tea garden. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Water Lane Water Hall | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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