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Description: | September 1963. Hughenden House in Rooms Lane was built as a private dwelling house for William Holton, a textile manufacturer, but with mills at Birstall (Smithies) rather than in Morley. However he was elected to Morley's first Town Council, but unlike many of the other manufacturers was a Conservative rather than a Liberal. This was the reason for the name of the house because Hughenden was the name of Conservative P.M. Disraeli's home in Buckinghamshire. William Holton married Grace Rhodes (from another Morley mill-owning family) in 1869 and they had a number of children but none went on to inherit the house as it passed into the hands of the Barker family (another set of manufacturers) who had it for about 50 years before it was purchased by the West Group of Companies. This group converted the house into drawing offices and linked it to another large house behind with a large extension. It is in this state when the photograph was taken and since that time there have been substantial changes in the organisations running the firms here but it is still office development, now much less isolated with all the housing built on Upper Rooms Road and Springfield Mill land. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Hughenden House Rooms Lane | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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