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Description: | January 1967. These are houses and old rag warehouses at the High Street end of Hunger Hill, Morley. Hunger Hill was originally laid out early in the 1800s and became a place where handloom weavers had their homes. In fact, it was here that a gentleman called Hodgson first tried the idea of using a shoddy weft to cover a cotton warp, and as it worked well the idea of union cloth took off and Morley's speciality in the textile trade was born. When the Great Northern Railway Station (Morley Top) was opened nearby in 1858 some buildings were extended and others changed use e.g. the building shown on the left here as Bragg's rag warehouse was for a long while the Great Northern Hotel. At the time this picture was taken practically all the other buildings on the street had been demolished, most of them before the Second World War. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Hunger Hill warehouse | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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