Leeds Industrial School, Leeds, West Yorkshire

This former Industrial school dates form 1879. It was designed by Richard Adams, the Leeds School Board architect. It was a boarding school for less academic boys who were trained in manufacturing skills. It originally stood in almost open country with only large houses nearby. Richard Adams was the Board School architect who designed the largest number of schools. This building is typical of one of his plainer but very imposing, almost workhouse-style, buildings. 180 boys lived here in 1903. It was later used as Education Department premises.

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