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Burmantofts is an area of 1960s high-rise housing blocks in inner-city east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England adjacent to the city centre and St. James's Hospital. It is a racially diverse area, with sizable Afro-Caribbean, Irish communities and Asylum Seekers, but suffers the social problems typical of similar areas across the country. The area has a small selection of pubs and the Anglers Club on Nippet Lane. Burmantofts is perhaps most notable for Burmantofts Pottery and the former Burtons textile factory, which is still owned by Burtons, but only used as a storage facility. In the 1900s and early twentieth century, Burmantofts was a large centre of the textile industry. ==History== The name comes from the half-acre parcels of land (or tofts) given to owners of building plots (or burgages) by the River Aire, thus Burgage Men's Tofts.〔( www.leeds.gov.uk ) Discovering Leeds – Industrial Leeds〕 The burgage men pursued craft businesses in the town, and grew crops on their tofts, such as grain which would be processed at the nearby mill on what is now Miles Hill.〔(Thoresby Society ) A Brief History of Leeds〕 Burmantofts grew alongside Leeds during the industrial revolution, and provided Leeds with many of its textile works. As a rule of thumb, North, East and West Leeds developed textile industries while South Leeds was centred on more heavy engineering, such as foundries and engine works. The Burmantofts Pottery started in 1842 and closed down in 1957. The land was bought by Leeds in 1960, cleared and made into the Shakespeare school and housing estate.〔(BBC Leeds Local History ) Glazed Over〕 In 1878, Burmantofts was the site of Leeds' first municipal waste incinerator, making use of a former industrial chimney.〔(Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XIV, No. 362 (1882) ) via Gutenberg〕 After the Second World War Burmantofts was in a very poor condition, however redevelopment did not occur for sometime. While the area was dilapidated and buildings such as the Pineapple Hotel (no 77 Accommodation Road) stood derelict for many years throughout the 1930s and 1940s,〔http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=6816&DISPLAY=FULL〕 no real redevelopment started until the mid-1950s, most of this however was just demolition and in this time only a handful of houses were built around Torre Road and Lupton Avenue. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Burmantofts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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