{"id":314463,"date":"2025-08-03T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314463\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:11:09","slug":"leeds-industrial-museum-rediscoveries-uncover-citys-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314463\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Industrial Museum rediscoveries uncover city&#8217;s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A photograph of Kirkstall Forge Home Guard shows the World War Two volunteer unit, which defended and patrolled the factory &#8211; a hugely important wartime production site that manufactured parts for military vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inventory project also uncovered a selection of corporate Christmas cards and calendars printed in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cards would once have been sold to business owners in Leeds to send to their clients and employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project also unveiled a series of steel signs advertising vintage businesses, made by Charles Lightowler, a family firm established in Hunslet in 1891.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lightowler became known for printing tinned food, sweet and tobacco containers, a selection of which held in the museum show tiny kittens driving toy cranes and sitting in cups, and a woman cuddling up to a golden labrador.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dating back to the 1600s, the site of Leeds Industrial Museum was once one of the world&#8217;s largest woollen mills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photograph of Kirkstall Forge Home Guard shows the World War Two volunteer unit, which defended and patrolled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114964770674735700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}