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View of Kent Road (formerly Crimbles Road) looking in the direction of Lowtown. This is a very old part of Pudsey. The white-rendered house on the left is number 3 Kent Road and was built in about 1840 on behalf of grocer, Mary Webster, wife of the late John Webster, a Lowtown clothier who died in 1839. The house was once part of a row of three houses. The other two, now demolished, were built at an earlier date of 1820s/30s by John Webster. Mary Webster was formerly Mary Threapleton, the widow of shopkeeper Samuel Threapleton and had inherited her husband's estate. The white house in the image became the property of the Huggan family from about 1854 when it was sold to William Huggan. At that time it was occupied by William Briggs. However, later in the nineteenth century it became the residence of William Huggan's son, John. The 1871 census lists him as a grocer but also as a farmer of 22 acres. He was assisted in the shop at that time by his 16 year old daughter, Rhoda. (The grocery shop is thought to have been in the house next door, one of the ones built by John Webster and now demolished, but we have no evidence to confirm that at the moment.) The next old stone building, on the corner with Lowtown, was a well-established nineteenth century grocery business, that of Emanuel Mortimer, at numbers 87 to 91 Lowtown. At one time he had two shops in Pudsey. Opposite the junction with Kent Road is Lane End. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Huggan Kent Road Emanuel Mortimer Lowtown Lane End 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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