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Description: | December 1961. This photograph helps to explain the development of the land clearance behind Morley Town Hall. As can be seen the dome of the Town Hall has been destroyed, caused by a fire on 18th August 1961. The fire itself started amongst some waste paper that was being stored in the four storey Albert Mill building. This was gutted and so quickly pulled down. It had already disappeared from this picture before the snow fell early in December 1961. The position of the Albert Mill was right alongside the other mill shown (Queen's Mill) but not quite as high. However the Albert Mill chimney is still standing (on the left of the photo) and this was felled on December 8th 1961. By April 1962 they were well on their to knocking down the Queen's Mill. It is possible that the Queen's Mill chimney had disappeared before the picture was taken.
On the right hand side can be seen some terrace houses in Albion Street. The whole of Albion Street, except for the Pentecostal Church (Church of the Nazarene) had been cleared by early 1972 and permission had been given for Morrison's supermarket to erect a store and construct a car park behind the Town Hall. The scheme was rushed through somewhat quickly before Morley was taken over by Leeds, as the money for the Morrison's sale which had been allocated to a new swimming baths was well on the way to being spent.
Since that time the Morrison's store has been rebuilt, the Church of the Nazarene has been rebuilt (on the same site as before) and the car park has been extended back to Westfield Road and Corporation Street. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Queen's Mill chimney | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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