Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Leeds!
My name is Dan Schreiber, and I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, Andrew Hunter Murray, and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, Chazinski.
My fact this week is that the first hydraulic lift was invented to carry sheep onto a roof,
and it was invented to do that in Leeds, in fact.
You suck, aren't you?
I know, I know, what can I say?
No, it's this place called Temple Works, and it's in an area called Holbeck.
Do you all know Temple Works?
You must do, right?
There you go, and yeah, it's this amazing building, so it was a flax mill, it was started in 1836, it was,
at the time it was built, it was the biggest room in the world, and it was this guy who was designing this flax mill,
but he wanted to make it, he was very safety conscious, and so he thought it should all be on one level,
because he thought if there was a fire, everyone needed to be able to escape quite fast, so it was one floor, huge room,
and the reason for the sheep on the roof is that, so he planted a lawn on the roof, all this grass,
because for the flax mill to work properly, it needed to be quite moist air inside,
and so the grass on the roof kind of sucked moisture out of the air,