Pottery Field in Leeds, as its name suggests, is a place closely linked to the Leeds pottery industry, but there is more. This Leeds Local History video tells the story of Pottery Field, a place of heavy industry and innovation. It was also once the location of terraced housing and a community now gone.

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    14 Comments

    1. Can please ask where you got such a high quality map of 1834? Best ive ever found was the tithe map or the nls website. I noticed it shows the location of hunslet hall more accurate than ive ever seen

    2. Im not sure how true this is but i remember hearing the old railway cut (now disussed) was up for sale a while back. Would be interesting to see what viable business would take that

    3. 0:22 I remember steam locos crossing Jack Lane. Somebody with a flag would walk out of the factory into the road and stop traffic to let the engine out. I also have what I think are memories (it gets difficult to determine in one's '70s) of locos crossing Jack Lane in the '70s – around the time of bus strikes (I walked along the road from Leeds University to meet pals for a drink at the New Prospect (might have been renamed the Omnibus by then) in Belle Isle).

    4. Just brilliant
      My dad spent his formative years on Pottery Fields
      Think he lived there mid 30s and through the 40s
      Unfortunately he once showed me where he lived but I can't remember the street
      He would have loved to have seen this

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