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Description: | April, 1961.
View of Morley's old industrial landscape. In the foreground is the red shale pit tip of Morley main Colliery which worked from 1853 to 1909. Much of the tip had been on fire at one time, hence the red shale. Some of the shale was being removed for road foundations while the rest was being flattened and landscaped to create new industrial land, ie. for garaging lorries or storing earthmoving equipment. Morley's gasworks was built in 1849 but, by the time this photograph was taken, the storage holders were taking gas from Tingley gasworks. The Valley Mill next to the gasworks was the fifth steam mill to be built in Morley and also dates from 1849, a year after the line through Morley Tunnel to Lancashire opened. This helped in supplying cotton warps. Behind the mill chimney is a spoil heap from a Churwell pit and housing for workers in the area can be seen on Daisy Hill. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Daisy Hill Valley Mill Morley Main Colliery gasworks | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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