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Description: | 22nd August 2009.
Image shows part of Lantern Lane, an ancient right of way used by mill workers from the early 19th Century to walk to and from their homes in Armley and the mills of Burley, for example the Dobbie Mills. In winter the workers, including children as young as five years old would have to set off before sunrise, carrying lanterns to light their way. They would have returned in the evening after darkness had fallen. The pathway was also known locally as o't Lantern Hoil. The journey involved negotiating Halfpenny Bridge as it was known. According to 'Armley Through the Camera' by T. Kirkby (1901) the Dobbie Mills would cease work when the River Aire was in high flood. Children in the Armley Streets would sing "we've come home for we've no work to do, T'Dobbie's stopt, all on account o't back watter. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Lantern Lane Halfpenny Bridge | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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