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Black and white view of the Shamrock Inn in Delph Hill. This was originally a three-storey garret house built to house hand-looms on the upper storeys. There is a datestone of 1777 and a set of initials which may read T.A.T. or possibly J.A.J. From approximately the 1820s until the 1850s Sunday School was taught on the top storey by the Wesleyan Methodists. This meant taking down the handlooms on Saturdays and setting them up again on Sunday evenings in readiness for Monday mornings. In the 1860s the building became a beerhouse called the Shamrock. It was named so because of the Irish families who settled in this part of Pudsey from the 1850s. Delph Hill was a poor area with cramped housing and workshops but late nineteenth century landlord John Wilcock did much to make The Shamrock a successful and respectable public house. He organised musical evenings, singing contests (with a prize of a 'purse of gold and a fat goose') and even clog dancing matches. Nowadays, most of the old property that once surrounded the Shamrock has gone but the pub still stands on Delph Hill. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | inn public house Delph Hill Shamrock | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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