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On Cross Gates Road, by the roundabout at the Ring Road are 3 small stones with a simple inscription. Around them on the ground are metal tiles, each bearing the name of one of the women. In February 2025, a blue plaque was unveiled in Pontefract commemorating Barnbow munitions worker Mary Lucy Turner who died of TNT poisoning.
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.
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Leeds War Memorial stands on Victoria Square on the Headrow, to the east of Town Hall and to the south of Leeds City Art Gallery in Leeds, England. It was erected as ...
Leeds Minster, with the Leeds Rifles memorial visible in the foreground to the left. The memorial is a comparatively small version of the War Cross, set into the church wall of Leeds Minster and facing out onto Kirkgate. The Portland stone of the war memorial creates a contrast with the sandstone of the church wall. Because of the difference in ...