Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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INFRINGEMENT OF THE BUILDING BYE-LAWS IN LEEDS. At the Leeds Police-court on Thursday, before Mr. Bruce, Henry Taylor, a builder, was summoned on three separate informations for an infringement of the building bye-laws. The Town Clerk prosecuted. Mr. Turner, who appeared for the defendant, asked that the case might be adjourned, as several material witnesses for the defence were not present. Mr. Bruce thought that there had been sufficient time to bring forward the witnesses, and refused to grant an adjournment. Mr. Turner said that under those circumstances he could not do his client justice, and retired from the case. When Mr. Turner left the court his client also retired. The first information charged the defendant with having built a house in Lorne-mount, Lorne-terrace, and Coldcall-place, without having, in accordance with the requirements of the Leeds Improvement Act, first deposited plans with the Corporation, and with having built it without the necessary amount of open space. An order was made with costs, for the demolition of the building. The defendant was charged, under the second information, with having erected a block of nine houses without providing the amount of open space required by the Improvement Act. The Town Clerk explained that the defendant deposited plans showing a block of eight houses and the necessary open space, but in building he made alterations, and added another house, thereby taking from the open space. An order was made for the demolition of so much of one of the houses as would leave the open space set forth in the original plans. The defendant was next charged with having neglected to “parget,” that is to coat with mortar, the chimneys in the block of houses referred to. For this offence a penalty of 60s. and costs was imposed.

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I can’t find any of the addresses on the turn-of-the-century OS 6 inch.

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8 August 1863: The police are invited to a cricket match on Woodhouse Moor (Leeds), designed to test the byelaws passed during its conversion from common land to People’s Park

7 November 1959: The last tram scheduled in Leeds, no. 181 or 187, runs from Cross Gates to Kirkgate or Swinegate

24 November 1988: John Battle, MP for Leeds West, visits a constituent who had lived near the J.W. Roberts (Turner & Newall) asbestos works in Armley

18 February 1934: Leeds Labour triggers the first rent strike against a council by announcing higher rents for well-off tenants and the prospect of free housing for ex-slum-dwellers

30 May 1835: The (Tory-dominated) Leeds Corporation gives its assets to three cronies to prevent their being inherited by the new (Whiggish) town council created by the Municipal Corporations Act

30 August 1935: Praise for Leeds’s slum clearance schemes

12 April 1875: The Times says that the ventilation tubes patented by Martin Tobin, a retired Leeds merchant, have ended air pollution in the borough’s police court

14 December 1892: Experts tell the High Court that electromagnetic interference from Leeds’s 1891 overhead electric tramway to Roundhay – the nation’s first – has brought down the local telephone service

Reproduction through the blind benevolence of Leeds Other Paper (RIP).1 April 1979: Amid motorway mania in Leeds, West Yorkshire Council is today to reveal plans to link Chapeltown and Woodhouse by a ¼-mile suspension bridge across Meanwood Beck

11 March 2020: Abigail Marshall Katung, Labour councillor and future Lord Mayor of Leeds, explains to the National Crime Agency how in 2015 she obtained a £360,000 house deposit from Nigeria

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The incoming government in 2015 under Muhammadu Buhari campaigned on an anti‑corruption platform, and after the election authorities such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission began to investigate and indict high‑level officials from the previous ruling party. However, there is no evidence, and it would be outrageous to suggest, that the house purchase apparently agreed on 1 April 2015 was in any way related to Goodluck Jonathan’s concession of the election on 31 March 2015 – studies of capital flight in Nigeria (and more broadly) show that the major determinants are macroeconomic, such as interest‑rate differentials, exchange‑rate instability or depreciation, poor domestic economic performance, investor risk perception, and weak financial markets. The vendor, Mansoor Hussain, subsequently forfeited most of his property empire following a NCA investigation, but I know of no evidence that Hussain was aware of the investigation at the time the sale was apparently agreed. Here’s a profile of Andy.

AMK was last seen speaking to the Money Advice Liaison Group:

Opening speech at the MALG conference this morning is the fabulously passionate Cllr Abigail Marshall Katung #malgconf2025 #debtadvice pic.twitter.com/hdKfYHYWHH

— Financially Included (@FinanciallyIncl) November 13, 2025

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