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Description: | April 1965. View looking north along Queen Street from the tower of Morley Town Hall which includes a substantial part of the town. The roof at the very bottom of the picture is that of Lloyd's Bank which is still standing. All the other roofs on this side of the road as far as the park have been cleared away and replaced by the Queen's Court complex of flats and shops. These include the glass roof of the Fent Warehouse Arcade, the higher building surrounding it, the old Post Office and telephone exchange, the Yorkshire Bank and an older block beyond which contained the gas showrooms during the Second World War. There is a good view of the parades of shops at the other side of Queen Street and of the Observer Offices on Troy Hill.
However, the relationship between the older buildings on either side of the Valley Stream that flows through Morley Bottoms can be clearly seen. Morley Hall stands on Dawson Hill at the Town Hall side of the valley. Victoria Mill chimney (with the pattern on), immediately behind it, rises from the Valley floor. Bank Street runs along the ridge at the other side of the valley and shows Prospect House directly below the Prospect Mill chimney, Yew Tree House behind a high curved wall leading up into the Prospect Mill yard and Bank House, a square mansion at the right hand side. Many of the buildings behind these belong to the Prospect Mill. The new roofs even further back are in the Springfields while the large mill right on the horizon is Springfield Mill. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Morley Bottoms Troy Road Queen Street Scatcherd Park | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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