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Description: | January 1967. This is Howley Lower Mill where rags were first pulled up to turn into weft called shoddy. The mill belonged to Benjamin Law and Benjamin Parr. As can be seen from the photograph half of the original mill has been converted into a house. At first the mill was water driven. The broad, flat grass lawn here was originally the bed of a mill dam which was ponded back across Howley Beck. Between the newly renovated building and the derelict one to the right was a water wheel (behind the polythene greenhouse) and the water came out of the dam to turn an overshot water wheel that transmitted its power to the rag pulling machinery and the willeyers inside. Later Howley Lower Mill was converted into a steam driven unit. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Howley Lower Mill | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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