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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.
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.
c. 1694 (probable) The ha-ha wall is the older, it is to the south of the house, in brick with stone coping, and it contains a wooden gate.The roadside wall is probably later, it is to the west of the grounds, in stone with flat coping, and it contains wrought iron double gates.
Crossgates may refer to: Cross Gates, Leeds, an area in the east of the city; Crossgates, Cumbria, England; Crossgates, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England; Crossgates, Fife, a village in Scotland; Crossgates, Powys, a village in Wales; Crossgates Commons, a shopping plaza in New York, United States; Crossgates Mall, a shopping mall in New ...
1914: Walter Dalgleish, an Australian actor, collapsed and died on stage during an unnamed performance in the King's Theatre in Fremantle, Western Australia. 1918: Chung Ling Soo, magician (real name: William Ellsworth Robinson), died as a result of a bullet catch illusion going wrong on stage. [8]
It was designed by James Robinson Watson, chief assistant in the office of Leeds-based architect George Corson, and opened on 18 November 1878.It was built as a complex in three parts: the theatre, a set of six shops and Assembly Rooms, all facing onto New Briggate, in High Victorian style of red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, the whole being a Grade II* listed building.
Cross Gates railway station serves Cross Gates, an area in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Selby Line , operated by Northern 4.25 miles (7 km) east of Leeds railway station . In the past signwriters have been unsure as to the correct spelling of Cross Gates, with "Cross Gates" on the westbound platform and "Crossgates" on one ...
Red Ladder Theatre Company is a national touring theatre company, funded by the Arts Council England and Leeds City Council. It is based at the Yorkshire Dance Centre, Leeds. The company was founded in London in 1968, during the Vietnam War, as a radical socialist theatre known as agitprop. The company moved to Leeds in the 1970s and is still ...