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Description: | C 1914.
View of Bridge Street before it was widened. It gets its name from the railway bridge, seen here, which was constructed in 1858. It was one of two bridges which carried the Wakefield - Bradford branch of the Great Northern Railway into Morley Top Station. The other crossed High Street. Bridge Street narrowed considerably as it passed under the bridge. This railway and bridges were later dismantled and Bridge Street was eventually widened.
High Street and Bridge Street were originally known in 1816, when Morley Upper Moor was enclosed, as Stump Cross Road and Leeds and Dewsbury Road. By the 1860s, they had become known as Upper Road and Lower Road, and the Local Board finally changed them to High Street and Bridge Street.
Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Morley Top Station Bridge Street High Street | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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