Akroydon
It was designed in the Gothic style by George Gilbert Scott in 1859 for the workers at the mills of Colonel Edward Akroyd, who had bought, in 1855, the 62,435 acres (25,267 ha) of land on which the houses were to be built.As Scott's original plan to have dormer windows in the cottages was unacceptable to members of the Akroyd Town Building Association, Akroyd employed a local architect – W. H. Crossland – under the supervision of Scott, to come up with an acceptable design.[3] According to Walter L Creese, this "suburb on the moors" was Akroyd's attempt "to justify contemporary upheaval, to rationalize for himself and others the improvement and purpose of the factory system as it was replacing the cottage industries".[3] Eric Portman, stage and film actor, was born at 71 Chester Road, Akroydon, in 1901.[4] John Reginald Halliday Christie (the serial killer of 10, Rillington Place, London) was born in Northowram in 1899[5] and lived with his parents at Chester Road, Akroydon.
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