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Description: | April 1969.
View of Benn & Webster's Victoria Mills on Brunswick Street, shown here in April 1969 when still in operation as a textile factory. The mill was one of the last to close in the town. It was one of the oldest textile sites in Morley and was the third mill (after Highfield and Dean Hall) to be built along the Valley Stream as it wended its way from Bruntcliffe towards Topcliffe Beck by the Leeds-Dewsbury Road. Since the mill closed in the early 1970s the main building, after standing empty for many years, was converted into flats. All the small buildings around it were demolished and the mill dam, just over the wall to the left of the building, was filled in and the new land used to build upmarket housing and garages. The original textile site here was for the 'Leadus', ie. 'lead house' which was a dyeing establishment, so called because lead vats were then used to dye the cloth in. There was also a Leadus pump to supply the villagers with drinking water as its location here would make it close to the water-table. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Brunswick Street Victoria Mills Valley Stream Leadus | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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