Busy workmen pass to and fro, lithe men, quick of step and motion, who come from leeds, or some similar manufacturing town, and whose very step distinguishes them in a moment from the agricultural labourer.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The present writer contributed an article to the Alpine Journal of August 1892, and one containing very clear illustrations of 'back-and-knee' work and of an episode in the long climb on the Pillar Rock to the pages of Black and White, in June 1892, while numerous articles have appeared from time to time in such local papers as the Whitehaven News and the West Cumberland Times, and in the Manchester, leeds, and Bradford press.
"Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England"
W. P. Haskett Smith
At Morley, near leeds, a man was formerly paid for blowing a horn at 5 a.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews