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Description: | 1972
View of Miles Druce Service Centre at the sheet processing works on Midland Road, formerly Reynolds Steelworks. This modern two storey building was seperate from the factory, which had five bays, each with overhead cranes, off to the left. Steel was delivered in coils by road (occasionally from the railway sidings). It was then unrolled and guillotined into sheets. Behind this office block there was a single storey warehouse dealing in metal components. Beyond the office block a scrapyard is visible which had an entrance at the junction of Midland Road with Balm Road. Rail scrap would have come to the yard from many of the old railway sidings. This whole area had been the old Leeds Steelworks but in 1972 there was a lot of surrounding wasteland with only the pubs left standing and no new-build. Image and information courtesy of Steve Morrell. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Miles Druce Balm Road Midland Road | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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