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Description: | January 1965. This view was taken to give some impression of the way the Plate Road went from Morley Main colliery to Elland Road, Churwell, in 1900 while the pit was still working. The shafts of Morley Main were close to the Miner's Arms on Albert Road. The Plate Road started near these shafts and then went over a tunnel which allowed people going to Morley Low Station access to the station steps. After passing over this tunnel it descended the slope close to Crank Mill Cottage, the roof of which can be seen on this picture. Just beyond this a viaduct was built across Station Road, the foundations of which can still be seen on either side of the road. This viaduct would take the Plate Road to the level of the bottom of New Bank Street along a route which on this photograph seems to be blocked with bales of blend. After crossing the road to Daisy Hill the Plate Road wended its way across the fields to come out at the side of Scarthingwell, the house of Sir Charles Scarth who owned Laneside Mills, the large factory with two chimneys and a water tower which can be seen in the centre of the horizon on this photograph. The Plate Road made a left turn about half way across the open fields. The Croft House bungalow estate can just be seen creeping past the edge of the Crank Mill and this has since filled up most of the spare land seen. The Plate Road is now King George Avenue. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Plate Road | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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