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Description: | c1912.
On the 21 st October 1911 the new tram line opened to Tingley Mills this became the new terminus .It had previously, since July, been the Fountain Inn. This extension of the Leeds to Morley route took in South Queen Street and Bridge Street. The junction of Bradford-Wakefield Road was formerly Tingley Bar, where tolls were collected for using
the Turnpike Road across Tingley Common. Tingley Mills, standing at the junction, was built c1868 to manufacture union cloth or 'shoddy'. This cloth was typical of what was produced in Morley at this time, using a cotton warp with a woollen weft. The mills were later converted to small business premises when the textile trade was on the decline in the 1960s.
Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Tingley Mills Tingley Bar textile | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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