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View of Doncasters Monk Bridge Ltd., seen from the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. This firm of precision engineers occupied a large area adjacent to Monk Bridge on Whitehall Road, previously owned by the Monk Bridge Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., founded in 1851 by Stephen Witham. In 1854 it was taken over by James Kitson who owned the Airedale Foundary, to supply local iron for his locomotive manufacturing business, and was managed by his sons, one of whom, also James, later became Baron Airedale and the first Lord Mayor of Leeds. The site was purchased by Doncasters almost a hundred years later in 1953 and remained with them until it closed in 2005. The factory has since been demolished and the site was bought by HBG Properties for a mixed use development. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Leeds and Liverpool Canal Monk Bridge Whitehall Road factory Doncasters | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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