Temple Mills

[farbank]

Farbank:             John Marshall, who inherited some £9,000 from his father in the late 18th.C. Was able to prosper with his flax spinning business so much, that he commisioned both Ignatius Bonomi and author/painter David Roberts to design and build his Temple Mill. This occurred some fifty years or so after his inial inheritance, in 1840. At one time it had a mill chimney, shaped amazingly like Cleopatras Needle. But this disappeared sometime after. Just when is hard to determine.The inside staircase balusters were bullrush shaped, and it was reputed that the office furniture was carved with Egyptian hieroglyphics.! It was consructed for the sole purpose of Flax spinning. And did indeed have sixty-six glass domes on the roof. Which was subsequently grass covered. And as already mentioned, was removed when the sheep he placed up there, began to fall through onto the machinery below.Underneath is a maze of passages and small rooms. And up to the mid 1980's was inches deep in a century of muck and dust. And used quite frequently with the then owners permission [Kays Catalogue], as a totally blacked out training area for the City Fire Brigade. To carry out search and rescue drills, wearing breathing apparatus.

[cnosni]

Have searched for threads on Temple Mills but to no avail.(awaits for a clever clogs to find one)

News in the YEP and the Leeds Citizen that at last things might be happening with Temple Mills

http://theleedscitizen.wordpress.com/20 ... ral-venue/

[cnosni]

Link to council document

http://democracy.leeds.gov.uk/documents ... 101114.pdf

[dsco]

Honestly cnosni - something wrong with the search function on your machine? http://www.secretleeds.com/viewtopic.ph ... 4&start=10

[dsco]

Merged topics.

[jim]

One of the first hydraulic lifts? I don't know anything of this and would be very interested in further information. Anyone?

[dsco]

Be good if Citu did get it, they've done some innovative stuff at Greenhouse in Beeston. Sorry - "New South Leeds" http://www.greenhouseleeds.co.uk/

[cnosni]

Merged topics.

Cheers.

The search function i later found was being blocked by my spyware, sorted now. I knew there was one somewhere