What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Following last month’s article Model of Self-Help on the start of Kitson & Company I thought I would follow up with the younger James Kitson. James Kitson (Junior) was born on 22 September 1835. He was the second son of James Kitson and his wife Ann (nee Newton) and was
Kitson was one of the great names in industrial Hunslet and Leeds. For over a century locomotives bearing the name were exported all over the world covering the new railways which fed growth and development and one of the men at the heart of this was James Kitson. James Kitson