Riots in Leeds

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Sun 09 Jan, 2011 9:53 pm

Following on from the fascinating thread about the Dripping Riot - http://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messag ... =215here's a few others1735 Corn price riot1753 The turnpike riots1800 Corn price riot1811 Corn price riot1834 The Military riot1842 The Chartist and Plug riots in Holbeck and Hunslet1865 The Dripping Riot1867 A Fenian riot1890 The Gasworkers riot1893 Morley miners' riot1908 The suffragette riot1917 An anti-Jewish riot, Quarry Hill1936 The battle of Holbeck Moor1975 Chapeltown riot (1975)11 July 1981 Chapeltown riot (1981)22 June 1987 Chapeltown riot (1987)1995 Hyde Park Riot2001 Harehills riot

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Sun 09 Jan, 2011 10:05 pm

Seem to recall there were quite a few at Elland Road during the 70's!

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Sun 09 Jan, 2011 10:38 pm

Does anyone know how many times the "Riot Act" has been read in Leeds? Seem to recall it was read on Wellington Bridge during the Gas Workers Riot - seemingly this told the rioters to disperse or they would be shot!

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Sun 09 Jan, 2011 10:39 pm

you missed out the Leeds Soldiers Riot of 9-11 June 1844.

Post by **cnosni** » Mon 10 Jan, 2011 12:53 pm

Steve Jones wrote: you missed out the Leeds Soldiers Riot of 9-11 June 1844. More info please Steve,if you have any.

harehills-steve · Post by **harehills-steve** » Mon 10 Jan, 2011 3:12 pm

Another steve, sorry, but link here - http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/leodis-leeds/night.html

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Mon 10 Jan, 2011 7:55 pm

harehills-steve wrote: Another steve, sorry, but link here - http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/leodis-leeds/night.html Fascinating insight into policing during the mid 1800'sI think the Riot Act came in in 1714 - though the Act does not mention shooting anyone! Question is who would have shot at the army on occasions like this.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Mon 10 Jan, 2011 8:13 pm

Leeds Hippo wrote: Following on from the fascinating thread about the Dripping Riot - http://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messag ... =215here's a few others1735 Corn price riot1753 The turnpike riots1800 Corn price riot1811 Corn price riot1834 The Military riot1842 The Chartist and Plug riots in Holbeck and Hunslet1865 The Dripping Riot1867 A Fenian riot1890 The Gasworkers riot1893 Morley miners' riot1908 The suffragette riot1917 An anti-Jewish riot, Quarry Hill1936 The battle of Holbeck Moor1975 Chapeltown riot (1975)11 July 1981 Chapeltown riot (1981)22 June 1987 Chapeltown riot (1987)1995 Hyde Park Riot2001 Harehills riot So, looking at the list it seems we're well overdue a riot... On a serious note, I'd not heard of the Battle of Holbeck Moor. There doesn't seem to be much about it on-line, the following excerpt being all that Google unearths:Battle of Holbeck Moor, 1936On 27th September 1936, following a week of tension during which the BUF was forbidden by the city's Watch Committee to march through the Jewish quarter, Oswald Mosley paraded over 1000 uniformed Blackshirts in Calverley Street, and marched them to Holbeck. Press reports suggest very few of them were Leeds natives.Opposition to the event had been organised and publicised some days previously, with the Communist Party taking the lead; relations between the parties being what they were, the Labour Party refused to take part in the protests. The newspapers reported a crowd of 30000 on the moor with a very significant hostile element. As Mosley spoke, the Red Flag was sung repeatedly in efforts to drown him out, and a large number of stones were thrown at the fascists. Many of these found their targets, with Mosley himself being struck. The city magistrates moralised endlessly in the week that followed, but punishments for most of those apprehended were light.An eye-witness recalled the weather being good that day, and also a Blackshirt parade down Meanwood Road, and so they came at least close to the Leylands. He also observed that if he'd known he was going to be questioned on the matter 60 years later, he would have paid closer attention to the details of the event at the time ... This riot occurred just days before the better publicised rout of the fascists in East London.

Mr Wensleydale · Post by **Mr Wensleydale** » Tue 11 Jan, 2011 7:11 pm

I remember the 1981 Chapeltown Riot as I was living in Harfehills at the time. Damage to property reached up to Chapel Allerton and I remember the next day a dentists surgery in Chapel Allerton was boarded up. A sign on the board read..."Open Wide As Usual"I wish I'd had a camera with me.

Crazy Jane · Post by **Crazy Jane** » Tue 11 Jan, 2011 8:16 pm

I was on Saville Place when the alleged 1987 riot took place.Didn;t see or hear a thing, my stepfather asked me if i'd barracaded myself in the house like he thought the whole area was in revolt(!).Some people claimed afterwards the 'riot' was quite a small group of people who tipped a couple of cars over and that was it.