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The Met Hotel is a Grade II listed building situated on King Street in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.Designed by Leeds-based architects Harry Sutton Chorley and J.W. Connon, the hotel opened in 1899 [1] as the Hotel Metropole.
25 April – United States – Greater Grand Crossing rail collision- A collision near Chicago results in the deaths of 18. [ 64 ] Norwalk River, Connecticut 6 May – United States – Norwalk rail accident – The first major American railroad bridge disaster occurs when a New Haven Railroad engineer neglects to check for an open swing bridge ...
Well suited: a history of the Leeds clothing industry, 1850-1990. (Oxford University Press, 2000). Kershen, Anne J. Uniting the Tailors: Trade Unionism Amongst the Tailors of London and Leeds 1870-1939 (Routledge, 2014). Woodhouse, Tom. Nourishing the Liberty Tree: Labour Politics in Leeds, 1880-1914 (Keele University Press, 1996).
When Leeds became a borough, land on either side of Briggate was allocated into 30 burgage plots for tradespeople to carry out their business, setting the style and layout of the street today. A burgage plot was a strip with a length of between 10 and 18 perches and a width of 3 perches, i.e. 49 ft 6 in (15.09 m) in width running east or west ...
1899 Cook County juvenile court established. [31] Municipal Art League established. [1] Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building constructed. Chicago-Sanitary-and-Ship-Canal, during construction Map of the business portion of Chicago. 1900 Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal opens; [32] the Chicago River is completely reversed.
Leeds was a manor and township in the large ancient parish of Leeds St Peter, in the Skyrack wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. [39] The Borough of Leeds was created in 1207, when Maurice Paynel, lord of the manor, granted a charter to a small area of the manor, close to the river crossing, in what is now the city centre.
Mabgate is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England and the name of one of its streets. In Leeds City Council's Mabgate Development Framework (2007), "the area is bounded to the west by North Street; to the east by Macaulay Street; to the north by Mushroom Street and to the south by the New York Road". [1]
City and Hunslet is a ward in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It contains over 400 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, eight are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, 30 at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. Leeds is the largest city in Yorkshire ...