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Description: | April 1972.
This image of the three bay and seven bay buildings of the original 1790 Crank Mills was taken in 1972 whilst the mills were still working. The rooms are extremely low and small and the first factory machines were scaled to the size of domestic industry equipment, like handlooms, rather than the larger mid 19th century monsters. The long, semi-circular topped window which extended the seven bay section (note the difference newer stonework) was built to house a new undercover steam engine that replaced the one originally fixed to this outside wall. It was not removed until the 1860s. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Crank Mills | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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