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Cross Gates (often spelled Crossgates) [1] is a suburb in east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The area sits between Seacroft and Swarcliffe to the north, Whitkirk and Colton to the south, Killingbeck to the west and Austhorpe to the south east.
A committee, chaired by Joseph Watson the Leeds soap manufacturer, was established for the purpose and decided to build a munitions factory from scratch. A governing board was organized to oversee construction on the new site, which was earmarked for Barnbow, situated between Cross Gates and Garforth. [3]
Barnbow in Cross Gates was a large ammunitions factory producing ten thousand shells per week by August 1915. The worst tragedy ever to happen within Leeds (in terms of fatalities) happened at the Barnbow tragedy of 5 December 1916.
Her car was later seen at nearby Nidd Gorge and then in Leeds, where it was recovered, but police do not know how it came to be at either of those locations. [379] 27 January 1997 Isabelle Gray Leeds 82-year-old Gray was found dead in the kitchen of her home in Austhorpe Road, Crossgates, on 28 January 1997. It is believed she was attacked by ...
Pendas Fields, or Penda's Fields [1] is a private, suburban housing estate in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is considered part of Cross Gates, as is Manston. Swarcliffe is close, and Cock Beck runs nearby. The area falls within the Cross Gates and Whinmoor wards of the Leeds Metropolitan Council.
Expansion at the Hunslet site was by the end of 1919 impossible, but C.H. Roe lived with his wife in the Cross Gates area of the city of Leeds and knew that a large shell-filling factory there had been vacated by the government. Thus for the purpose of purchasing this large site with a modern factory building and space for expansion he ...
The Cross Gates–Wetherby line is a former railway line in West Yorkshire, England, between Cross Gates, near Leeds, and Wetherby. The line opened 1876 and closed 1964. The line opened 1876 and closed 1964.
Oil train at Cross Gates station in 1984. The station was originally opened by the Leeds and Selby Railway in 1834, but was closed in 1840 when the L&SR was leased by George Hudson's York and North Midland Railway. It reopened in 1850, but patronage was initially modest due to Cross Gates being a small village some distance from Leeds.