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Description: | August 1964. Commercial Street, Morley, in August 1964, just about the high point of the post-war textile boom for W. and E. Jackson's Peel Mills which had buildings (see the connecting tunnel) on both sides of the street. The ground floor of the newest building (a replacement for the one burnt down in the First World War) appears to be the wet finishing department where pieces of cloth have recently been dyed or scoured and some put outside to air off in the street. The large sheets of blend look to be waiting below the big green door on the second storey to be hoisted through that door into the carding and scribbling department, where large machines with rollers encased in card clothing would rework the pulled up rags (blend) into a finer material ready for spinning on the mules. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Peel Mills Commercial Street | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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