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Description: | 1st March 2007
View of the interior of a listed building at the site of Kirkstall Forge which closed in 2002. The building is an important part of the 850 year old history of the forge and dates back to 1676 when cousins Thomas Dickin and William Cotton constructed a Slitting Mill. At the same time a weir was built at Newlay to power the waterwheel which was to drive the Helve-Hammer. The project was heavily financed by John Spencer of Cannon Hall who was a cousin of William Cotton and put up ?836. Beneath the round-arch opening on the left there is a glimpse of the old cast-iron undershot waterwheel and helve-hammer which are also grade II listed. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | listed waterwheel Kirkstall Forge | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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