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Author	Freelance Photographer, Rick Harrison
Copyright holder	(c) Rick Harrison 2010 photography@fortybelowzero.com - http://www.fortybelowzero.com/Licenced Royalty-free use by Holbeck Urban Village.
Image title	A large (its a good 3-ft in diameter) carved portrait of Colonel Thomas Harding, the founder of the Tower Works factory, Holbeck in 1866.This is hidden away in one of the buildings on the site of the factory - the site's currently under re-development. There's actually 10 portraits in the room, all of leading (local?) inventors and visionaries of the Industrial Revolution, of which the holbeck area was the hub in Leeds (i took similar shots of all the portraits - to be posted later).To borrow the biography from the<a href="http://www.holbeckurbanvillage.co.uk/&quot;>Holbeck Urban Village website</a>:"Colonel Thomas Harding started out in business as a gill-pin maker in Great Wilson Street in Leeds in 1836. As the industrial revolution began to take off he opened the new Tower Works factory at Globe Road in 1864. The design of the new factory was heavily influenced by his love for Italian architecture and art. Harding's classification for pin sizes, the Harding Gauge, went on to become the international standard.The most notable features of Tower Works are the three towers that give it its name and served as chimneys for the gill-pin factory. The largest and most ornate tower is based on the iconic Giotto campanile (bell tower) in Florence. The smaller ornate tower is based on the Lamberti Tower in Verona. A third plain tower, built as part of Harding's final phase of expansion in 1919, is thought to represent a Tuscan tower house. All three are listed structures, the two ornate towers being Grade II * and the plain tower Grade II.The design for the Giotto Tower included ventilation systems that were way ahead of their time in terms of minimising pollution from the steel works. The chimney incorporated a filter to retrieve the excess steel dust from the production process. In 1895 T. W. Harding&Son amalgamated with two other companies to become Harding, Rhodes&Co. After sustaining damage in World War II when neighbouring buildings were bombed during the air raids on Leeds city railway station, the factory was never repaired and ceased to trade in 1981 after almost 120 years of operating on the site."The site is now owned by Yorkshire Forward, who are in the process of breathing new life into the site in the form of rennovations that will lead to a mixed-used development encompassing office space and studio's for leeds' creative industries, housing, and restaurants.
Date and time of data generation	12:08, 8 May 2010
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Rating (out of 5)	5
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Writer	Rick Harrison
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Short title	T. R. Harding - Founder of Tower Works, Leeds
Keywords	Holbeck Urban Village Holbeck Tower Works Industrial Recolution Italianate Towers Colonel Thomas Harding Harding T. R. Harding Founder 1866
City shown	Leeds
Province or state shown	West Yorkshire
Country shown	United Kingdom
Sublocation of city shown	Tower Works, Holbeck Urban Village
Code for country shown	UK