These are some Poems by revolutionary eighteenth century Leeds Poet Tom Maguire. He was a working class lad who new all too well the poverty and hardship of the times. He was plagued by Illness during his short life and died shortly before his 30th birthday. He made a huge impact in his time though, taking to the streets of Leeds to stand on his soap box and tell the people of Leeds to stand up for their rights. The working conditions of the time were terrible and workers were treated almost like slaves, they had a short life expectancy and no opportunity to better themselves. Through this injustice came revolution. Tom Maguire helped set up the Leeds Gas workers strikes of 1890 and the Leeds socialist party, this would go on to become the Labour party. He withdrew from politics towards the later part of his life prefering to retreat to write poetry and he saw factions of the socialist party turn to anarchism.

I have taken words from Maguire's poems to sandblast onto the bricks i have collected from the Mills that are being demolished around leeds. They were done at a stonemason's that is usually used for headstones.... I like the link with death as these bricks represent the death of Industry. The building blocks of our city that once was the Industrial hub of the North, now reduced to rubble. I think they deserve a memorial...