... Leeds in 1842: "To build the largest number of cottages on the smallest possible space seems to have been the original view of the speculators. Thus neighbourhoods have arisen in which there is neither water nor privies." 1 This shows that lack of planning and space was one of the reasons as to why houses in industrial cities like Leeds and Bradford didn't have these facilities. Titus Salt planned his town very well before building, and did not rush into it. He took into account this problem, which he had encountered in Bradford, and developed means of combating it. The gas was piped to each house from the mill and water was piped to each house from Salts own 500,000-gallon reservoirs via a series of underground tunnels that linked each house to together. This was a good idea because it meant that repairs could be made if, for example, there ...

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