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Image shows Abbey Fold. The cobble stone paving with open drainage, visible on far right was taken from the Hunslet area and rebuilt as originally found to show Leeds during the Industrial Revolution. Visible on the left is the entrance to J. Gathercole, Wheelwright and Joiner. This c.1900 workshop is typical of those found in semi-rural communities in the West Riding where wheelwrights and joiners were a joint profession. Seen through the door are tools used for a variety of jobs including furniture repair, heavy timber work and all aspects wheel and farm wagon repair. On the left of Gathercole's, just visible is Christopher Scott, Sadler and Harness maker. On the far right of the image is Beecroft & Butler, Blacksmiths. Beecroft & Butler took over Kirkstall Forge in 1779 and from 1779 Abbey House was leased to George Beecroft and held by the Beecroft and Butler families until the 1880s when it was sub-leased to other tenants and in 1888 sold to Colonel North. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Abbey House Museum Abbey Fold | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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