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Leek was the home of James Brindley, the 18th century canal engineer.
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The name ' Leek ' was derived from a brook, the " Leke ".
( It is often erroneously stated — by the MGM publicity department of the 1950s — that Keel's birth name was Harold Leek ).
After schooling in Yorkshire, Larner returned to Leek in 1866 to be apprenticed to his father as an architect, and thus was formed the famous Sugden & Son ( Architects ), whose influence on the town was to be profound.
Larner was a great supporter of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and so Leek ’ s development was in sympathetic hands.
He studied dyeing and it was Leek which provided his firm with silk.
It was through the SPAB that he came into contact with Larner Sugden, the local architect, who went on to publish some of Morris ' speeches and essays in a series called the Bijour of Leek.
James Ford, English musical composer, record producer and musician in the band Simian Mobile Disco was born in Leek.
Leek was served by Leek railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on July 13, 1849, but was finally closed in the 1960's.
He was born in Tunstead, Derbyshire, and lived much of his life in Leek, Staffordshire, becoming one of the most notable engineers of the 18th century.
In 1771, work had begun on the Chesterfield Canal, but while surveying a new branch of the Trent and Mersey between Froghall and Leek, he was drenched in a severe rain storm.
Charles Lynam ( 1829 – 1921 ) was an architect and amateur archaeologist from Leek.
Sir Bernard Docker took the extra responsibility of Daimler's Managing Director in January 1953 when James Leek was unable to continue through illness.
After it leaves the dam at Tittesworth, it flows into the ancient market town of Leek, where it was used until quite recently to aid the manufacture of dyes that were used in the town's textile and silk industries.
The river was heavily used in Leek by the textile industry to make dyes.
According to local legend the village was burned during the reign of William II as a punishment for the poaching of deer from the forests around Leek.
He was born in Staffordshire, the son of Thomas Parker, an attorney at Leek.
Leek and home
Leek is home to two football clubs.
Leek is also home to Leek Hockey Club, who train at Leek High Specialist Technology School and are based on Mill Street at the ege of the town.
Staffordshire is home to the industrialised Potteries conurbation, including the city of Stoke-on-Trent, and the Staffordshire Moorlands area, which borders the southeastern Peak District National Park near Leek.
He also had a grammar school built at Leek, his home town.
The War Memorial Recreation Ground is to the north-west of the village and is home to The Village Hall and Leek Wootton Sports Club.
Leek Wootton is home to The Warwickshire Golf and Country Club, and has the Anchor Inn public house at its centre.
North Staffordshire magistrates ordered him to stay away from the family home in Milltown Way, Leek, Staffordshire and he was remanded on conditional bail.
Harrison Park, Leek CSOB's home ground
Leek and James
He is remembered in Birmingham by Brindley Drive ( on the site of former canal yards ), the Brindleyplace mixed-use development and a pub, The James Brindley ( both being canal-side features ), and the James Brindley School for children in Birmingham's hospitals ; in Leek with the James Brindley Mill ; and by numerous other streets in the areas in which he worked.
* James Leek ( 1892 – 1977 ) 1913 – 1957 managing director of Daimler and Cycles and Guns, director of BSA
Leek and Brindley
In total, throughout his life Brindley built 365 miles ( 587 km ) of canals and many watermills, including the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal the Coventry Canal, the Oxford Canal and numerous others, and he also constructed the watermill at Leek, now the Brindley Water Museum.
* Brindley Water Mill at Leek, Staffordshire
Leek and canal
The first plans by the proprietors of the Trent & Mersey Canal Company to construct a canal from the summit level to Leek were considered in January 1773.
The Bill was defeated in Parliament, after which the Peak Forest Canal Company proposed to build a branch of their canal from Marple to Leek, and on to join the Caldon branch.
In order to ensure that the water from Rudyard could be used to supply the main line, the Leek branch had to join the top level of the Caldon branch, and so the original route with the three Park Lane locks was closed and a new route built, with a three-lock staircase between the junction and the old line of the canal.
This was altered again in 1841 to the present arrangement, where the canal to Froghall passes under an aqueduct on the Leek branch, and three separate locks at Hollinhurst raise the old line up to the summit level.
Responsibility for the canal passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1940, who closed the Leek branch under an Act of Parliament obtained in 1944.
The main line from Etruria to Froghall and the Leek Branch were two of seven stretches of canal, formally designated as remainder waterways, which were re-classified by the British Waterways Act of 8 February 1983.
The canal has one branch, the Leek Branch, which runs for and includes the Leek Tunnel.
The original length of the canal, extending to a basin on the south side of Leek Railway Station, was filled in in the late 1950's / early 1960's to allow for the building of the Barnfields Road Industrial Estate.
When it appeared that Harecastle Tunnel, on the Trent and Mersey Canal, might have to close permanently because of mining subsidence, one of the solutions mooted was to make a connection between the Leek Branch of the Caldon canal and the Macclesfield canal at Bosley, via Leek and possibly Rudyard Lake ; however Harecastle Tunnel remains open to navigation.
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In the 1830s and 1840s a new development took place with the Permanent Building Society, where the society continued on a rolling basis, continually taking in new members as earlier ones completed purchases, such as Leek United Building Society.
In Staffordshire, a breeding colony has established itself after breaking loose from a private zoo in Leek, Staffordshire in the 1930s.
A monument called Gaveston's Cross remains on the site, south of Leek Wootton near Warwick.
During Spring: Artichoke, Asparagus, Beanshoots, Beetroot, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Cucumber, Leek, Lettuce, Mushrooms, Peas, Rhubarb, and Spinach.
In 1994, on the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman first season episode " Vatman ", He played Dr. Fabian Leek, a cloning expert who creates a Superman clone that belonged to corporate mogul Lex Luthor ( John Shea ).
Leek (, Gronings: De Laik ; ) is a municipality and a village in the Groningen province in the northeastern Netherlands, bordering on the Drenthe and Fryslân provinces.
Enumatil, Leek, Lettelbert, Midwolde, Oostwold, Tolbert and Zevenhuizen.
The success of the song prompted Washington to make a return to live performance, and also saw the departure of Leek, who gave his reasons for leaving as " Really hating being famous all of a sudden ... Just because I've been on Top of the Pops doesn't mean I should get any more respect.
Leek is a market town in the county of Staffordshire, England, on the River Churnet.
King John granted Ranulph de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, the right to hold a weekly Wednesday market and an annual seven-day fair in Leek in 1207.
On the top is the Staffordshire Knot, either side is the famous Leek " Double Sunset " and below a gold garb.
Alton Towers is situated in the Staffordshire Moorlands district and therefore employs a large number of people from Leek and the surrounding area.
Leek is built on the slope and crown of a hill which is situated just a few miles south of The Roaches ; a gritsone escarpment which rises steeply to 505m.
Leek is situated at the foot of the Peak District National Park and is therefore often referred to as the Gateway to the Peak District, although the town is more often referred to as the Queen of the Moorlands.
In 1849 William Sugden ( b. 1821 in Keighley ) came to Leek.
William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement, lived and worked in Leek between 1875 and 1878.
Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History in the University of Oxford and former Warden of Keble College Averil Cameron grew up in Leek.
Dave Hill, vocalist for English New Wave of British Heavy Metal band Demon, lives and works in Leek.
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