Robert Smirke, Humphry Repton, and Benjamin Gott blue plaque — Report the wrong picture

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This blue commemorative plaque records: Benjamin Gott. The rise of this pioneering Leeds Industrialist was meteoric. At the age of 30 he built the world's woollen mill. Vast in scale, its 1000 workers made superfine cloth, army cloth and blankets exported worldwide. Using his wealth to buy this estate, he had its grounds landscaped by Humphry Repton. The house whose remodelling in neo-Grecian style is attributed to Sir Robert Smirke, was filled with paintings, sculpture and books. 1762- 1840 Recorded plaque organisation: Leeds Civic Trust.

Benjamin Gott was a pioneering Leeds industrialist who built the world's largest woolen mill at age 30, revolutionizing textile production; Humphry Repton, renowned for his landscape gardening, designed the grounds of Gott’s estate; Sir Robert Smirke, a prominent architect, remodeled Gott’s house in neo-Grecian style.

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