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Smithfield Ironworks, Smithfield Hotel, and Thomas Green blue plaque

Blue plaque
Smithfield Ironworks, Smithfield Hotel, and Thomas Green blue plaque
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This blue commemorative plaque records: Smithfield Ironworks Built as the Smithfield Hotel in the 1860s to serve Leeds Cattle Market opposite, it later became the imposing frontage of Thomas Green & Son Ltd. Green's made steam and motor rollers, traction engines, steam trams, railway locomotives and grass cutting equipment. Recorded plaque organisation: Leeds Civic Trust.
Smithfield Ironworks was originally constructed as the Smithfield Hotel in the 1860s to cater to visitors of the Leeds Cattle Market; it later served as the prominent frontage for Thomas Green & Son Ltd., a company renowned for manufacturing various industrial machinery including steam and motor rollers, traction engines, and railway locomotives.

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