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View of three double-fronted stone-built cottages dating from the early nineteenth century and addressed as Greenwood Row. They number, from left to right, 6, 5 and 4 (there are four houses in the row but number 3 is off camera, right). The cottages were built by Edward Greenwood, a former Bradfordian who was known to have been living in Pudsey Lowtown in 1811. He was a joiner but also bought up small strips of land for building plots. He had acquired a portion of the former common land, Crimbles Green to build Greenwood Row as a result of the Enclosures Act. They were designed as weavers cottages and on the upper storeys there are indentations in the wooden floor boards, evidence of heavy wooden hand looms. The weavers would have worked where the natural light flooded in from the large windows. Living accommodation was on the ground floor and these houses are particularly spacious. Greenwood Row is located off Kent Road (formerly Crimbles Road). | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Kent Road Greenwood Row Crimbles Crimbles Road | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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