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Description: | 13th September 2003.
Hillary Place, now part of the University Campus, was built by John Hillary Hebblethwaite between 1859 and 1872. This house is on the corner with Cavendish Road and is number 8 Hillary Place, dating from 1870. It was built for Thomas R. Harding, manufacturer of combs, cards and steel pins, for the textile industry, at the Tower Works in Globe Road. His son, Colonel Thomas Walter Harding was the first occupant when the house was completed in 1870. He financed the development of City Square including the statues, the most famous being Brock's Black Prince. Numbers 5-8 Hillary Place nowadays house part of the Education Complex of Leeds University. The house is also numbered as 1 Cavendish Road. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Leeds University Hillary Place Cavendish Road Hebblethwaite Colonel Harding | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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