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Description: | c1890s. This is how Queen Street would have looked at the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, though the photograph may have been taken a year or two later. On the left hand side is part of Wesley Street Mill, the only mill building in Morley that ever abutted on to the main street. This was owned by Charles Scarth, the biggest employer in the town at the time, who had also built the two pairs of shops next to it, just beyond the yard of Henry Place which was a short cut entrance to the mill and to mill workers' housing in the yard. The mill was demolished in the 1930s and the site used to build a branch of Woolworth's. In the 1980s the Yorkshire Bank took over the Woolworth's building and the widened entrance to Henry Place which had all been cleared away was changed to the Beryl Burton gardens. Beyond the shops (by the trees) was the Sunday School building of Zion Independent Chapel, which, before the Labour Exchange was built, was used to interview men who wanted to go on the dole. Beyond this is Sheard's chemist, an old shop by Gisburn Court, the Town Hall and the Lloyd's Bank building of 1891 which destroys the line of the street. On the right hand side the provisions' and drapers' shops spill over onto the pavement thus obscuring the front of the Queen's Hotel and the entrance to the market place. The three storey Exchange Building can be seen beyond. There is no traffic in the street except for pedestrians and one horse-drawn cab. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Queen Street Wesley Street Mill | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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