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Description: | October 1965. In about 1929, the textile firm of J. & S. Rhodes Ltd. of Prospect, Queen's and Valley Mills, Morley, opened some new sports facilities for its employees. These were on land between Dean Hall Mills (in the background of this photo) and Nepshaw Lane (boundary fence in foreground). The facilities included a wooden pavilion with one aspect looking out onto a huge cricket field that was sometimes used for hockey and football in the winter months, and the opposite aspect overlooking a fine crown green bowling green. Near the entrance from Bruntcliffe Lane were three tarmac tennis courts with the area of each court delineated by white marble chips.
Teams played in local leagues but had to give up during the Second World War. Afterwards they started again, especially the cricket, and while ever the textile firm was successful and the directors were interested in cricket and lived locally the team flourished. The heyday was the early 1950s. In the early 1960s J. & S. Rhodes sold out to John Blackburn, a Batley firm not at all interested in sport. They sold off the field to Victoria School who owned it at the time of photograph. It has been suggested that the land for the field was originally a quarry. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | playing field Victoria School J. & S. Rhodes Ltd. Dean Hall Mill football Nepshaw Lane | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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