Batley
About Batley
Batley is a market town in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England, south-west of Leeds, north-west of Wakefield and Dewsbury, south-east of Bradford and north-east of Huddersfield, in the Heavy Woollen District. In 2011, the population was 48,730.
On the show — 5 mentions total
Shoddy was pioneered in Batley in Yorkshire by Benjamin Law, who founded a company called Shoddy Manufacturing, which is just lovely.
from Little Fish: You've Been Harkin'd, 2025-11-16 at 00:10:10 · read transcript
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I looked into it to see if they produced any other sort of, you know, interesting drinks through their students, and it turns out that they did. No. Yeah. Richard John Reed, the co-founder of innocent smoothies and innocent drinks, went to the very same school. He went to Batley. He went to Batley Grammar. That's great. More so than the smoothies, he is sort of the person who is credited with pioneering whackaging.
No Such Thing As Meat Cute, 2023-11-02 · listen
Oh, it gives the personality to the package. It was them, wasn't it, who invented that? Before it was just ingredient. This guy from Batley School was accredited, yeah, Richard Reid. I was so pro-Batley School until you said that. I think they need to burn it down. Also, though, as soon as you said it, and you said he was the inventor of Innocence Media, I immediately just pictured him to be wearing one of these knitted hats going around Batley Grammar School corridors and a little knitted woolly hat going,.
No Such Thing As Meat Cute, 2023-11-02 · listen
Oh, it gives the pleasure. The hospitality is to the package. It was them, wasn't it, who invented that? Specifically, the sky from Batley school was credited, yeah Richard Reed. I was so pro batley school until you said that. I know, I think they need to burn it down. Also though, as soon as you said it, and you said he was the like, in vet room, in a sense of meaning, I immediately just pictured him to be wearing one of the hated hats, going around batley, going around a school corridor, and a little knitted wooly hat going, I'm cold, put me in the fridge.
503: No Such Thing As Meat Cute, 2023-11-02 · listen
I like putting the little hats on top, is that what that is? No, it's now when the drink sort of says on the side, so you put in the fridge. Put me in the fridge. Oh, it gives the pleasure. The hospitality is to the package. It was them, wasn't it, who invented that? Specifically, the sky from Batley school was credited, yeah Richard Reed. I was so pro batley school until you said that.
503: No Such Thing As Meat Cute, 2023-11-02 · listen
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Little Fish: You've Been Harkin'd put 3 places on the map.
- Yorkshire · United Kingdom
- Case Western Reserve University · United States
Coordinates: 53.7167, -1.6356