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Description: | c1960s.
Britannia Mills, owned by George Baines & Sons on Britannia Road, is seen here undergoing demolition in the late 1960s. By this time the roadside, stone building would have been over 100 years old, being erected in 1860. The red building behind was of a type common during the First World War. It was probably a replacement for a building lost in a fire and was not pulled down when the rest of the mill disappeared, but was renovated by Asda and turned into their technical department. In front of this building can be seen two Lancashire boilers used to heat up water to power the steam engine. The gate to the mill yard can still be seen. This was one of the larger family mills in Morley, being particularly prosperous at the start of the 20th century. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Asda Britannia Mills Britannia Road | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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