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Porters 1872-73 directory and 1870 White's directory both list:
Amos Wood as a machine broker & commission agent at 39 Meadow Lane, residence. Cross Flats House, Beeston.
There is also an Amos Wood ,(Jubb, Dawson & Wood), engineer Etc: residence 8 Dawson terrace, Hunslett. (Jubb, Dawson & wood were engineers, machine and toolmakers, Vulcan Foundry, Jack lane, Hunslet)
The 1863 Leeds Mercentile directory lists
Amos Wood as a machine & toold broker at 18 Meadow Lane
The 1875 Leeds and clothing district directory lists :
Amos Wood,machine broker, (Dawson & Wood) .residence 46 Chetwynd St. (Dawson & Wood were machine & metal brokers,Siddall Place)
& an Amos Wood (Wood & Foster), residence Cross flatts, Beeston (Wood & Foster were machine & metal brokers, 10 Swinegate)
The 1881 Kellys directory lists
Amos Wood ,machine broker, 10A.Swinegate and Audlin St, Hunslet
The 1888 Kellys lists:
Amos Wood , machine broker. 10A Swinegate
& Amos Wood ,metal broker, Audlin St, Meadow Road
(Also a shopkeeper, a milliner and a beer retailer of that name)
By 1891 only the beerhouse keeper of that name is listed
Cross flats house is shown on the 1893 map and is at what would later be the junction of Marsden & Parkfield avenues. Do not jnow when it was demolished