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Description: | c1950s. A panoramic view over part of Morley from Morley Main pit tip behind old Morley gasworks. Valley Road can be seen in the foreground going diagonally across the picture from bottom right, with Valley Mills just starting on the right at the side of the gasworks. Most of the land in the middle distance is farmed as rhubarb fields with several sets of rhubarb forcing sheds being visible. This land and houses are in an area known as Daisy Hill. In the background at the level of the Parish Church Spire is Victoria Road leading from Morley (left) towards Churwell (right). It is just possible to make out the field (now part of the Croft House estate) behind the Nelson Arms which was Morley's main flower show ground in the 1830s to the 1860s and where the All England XI cricket team played XXII of Morley & District in 1862 and again in 1863. The last cricket team to play on the ground were Birks Methodist Chapel in the 1950s. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive by Clifford Sykes. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Valley Road Daisy Hill gasholder Valley Mills | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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