What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Tower Works. Built for Harding & Son, makers of pins, cards and combs for the textile industry. Its smallest chimney (Thomas Shaw 1864) was modelled on the Lamberti Tower in Verona, the largest (William Bakewell 1899) on Giotto's Campanile in Florence. 1864-1981 Recorded plaque organisation: Leeds Civic Trust.
Tower Works was a significant manufacturing site for Harding & Son, producing essential tools like pins, cards, and combs for the textile industry from 1864 to 1981; its chimneys, designed by Thomas Shaw in 1864 and William Bakewell in 1899, are notable architectural features inspired by famous towers in Verona and Florence.
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