What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: The Revd Charles Jenkinson. Vicar of Holbeck, transplanted his congregation here in 1937-38, having become a Leeds City Councillor in 1930 to drive through a massive and highly controversial programme of inner city slum clearance. He replaced the slums with the world famous Quarry Hill Flats and greenfield Council housing estates at Middleton, Belle Isle, Gipton, Halton and Seacroft. 1887-1949 Recorded plaque organisation: Leeds Civic Trust.
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- Stephen Craven, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Chris, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Chris Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ian S, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- DS Pugh, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Graham Hogg, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- John Davidson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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