Frank Westbury was born under the name James Bleasby in Hunslet, an industrial suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire, England on 5 May 1838.
Garry E. Schofield OBE (born 1 July 1965 in Hunslet, Leeds) is an English retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s and is a member of the British Rugby League Hall of Fame, which comprises the greatest 21 Rugby League players this country has ever seen, having been inducted in November 2013.
James A. Bastow was born in Hunslet near Leeds in 1810 and was the eldest child of John Bastow, a weaver, and Mary Wade, As a youth he attended a Primitive Methodist church in Leeds, where he was converted and soon began to work as a lay preacher.
Circa-1968 Ken and his wife Joan were the landlord and lady of the Prospect Inn, 93 Moor Road, Hunslet, Leeds.
Scootacar was a British three-wheeled microcar built in Hunslet, Leeds by Scootacars Ltd a division of the railway locomotive builder, the Hunslet Engine Company between 1957 and 1964.
The areas decline began in the early 20th century when Leeds' industry moved away from the centre out towards Hunslet, Holbeck, Armley and Kirkstall.
After the War, Macdonald trained in General Practice, and was a GP in Leeds for over 30 years, having a practice in the relatively deprived areas of Hunslet and Beeston.
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Bill Brookes, rugby league footballer of the 1900s for Hunslet
Rugby league footballer Fred Farrar, whose nickname was The Farsley Flyer, was a member of Hunslet's 1907–08 All Four Cups winning team.
Born Florence Emily Davies in the Hunslet district of Leeds, she was the daughter of Methuselah Davies (1861–1946) from Dowlais, Wales and Florence Susannah Bird (1863–1926) from Aylsham, Norfolk.
Fred Farrar was a non-playing substitute for England against New Zealand, and had been previously complimented on his length-of-the field try for Hunslet against Leeds at Headingley Stadium by Hercules Richard "Bumper" Wright who was watching his first British rugby league match.
It was withdrawn from LMS stock in December 1943 and sold for use at RNAD Broughton Moor, near Maryport, for which use it was flameproofed by Hunslet.
Today the Manning Wardle designs are owned by the Hunslet-Barclay, who are still a provider of services to the rail industry, based in Kilmarnock, Scotland.
A steam engine was named in his honour, the Hunslet-built 40604T "Sir H. Ralph Hone", which is now displayed in the Sabah Museum, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
All four Hunslet steam locomotives were built for the War Department's meat depot in Deptford.
In Leeds, It is the name for the South Leeds suburbs and districts that are south of the River Aire such as Beeston, Hunslet, Morley and Middleton