Temple Works
About Temple Works
Temple Works is a former flax mill in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was designed by the engineer James Coombe a former pupil of John Rennie; the painter David Roberts; and the architect Joseph Bonomi the Younger. It was built in the Egyptian Revival style for the industrialist John Marshall between 1836 and 1840 to contain a 240 horsepower double-beam engine by Benjamin Hick. Temple Works is the only Grade I listed building in Holbeck.
On the show — 4 mentions total
He planted a lawn on the roof, all this grass, because for the flax mill to work properly, it needed to be quite moist air inside, and so the grass on the roof kind of sucked moisture out of the air, and then it was siphoned down in pipes into the factory. If you've got grass, you need someone to mow it, and that's the herd of sheep. So he invented this lift, because sheep can't go upstairs, and that is the story of Temple Works.
from 210: No Such Thing As A Sheep's Bedside Table, 2018-03-30 at 00:01:49 · read transcript
Other times Temple Works came up
My fact this week is that the first hydraulic lift was invented to carry sheep onto a roof and it was invented to do that in Leeds in fact You suck up I know I know What can I say? No is this place called Temple Works And it's in an area called Holbeck Do you all know Temple Works you must do right There you go And yeah it's this amazing building So it was a flax mill.
No Such Thing As A Sheep's Bedside Table, 2018-03-30 · listen
Coordinates: 53.7897, -1.5529