Large areas of mined landscape have been cleared for housing, industrial estates and motorways since WWII. Coal has also been extensively opencasted between Leeds and Wakefield, destroying most traces of the former industry. Kellingley, the last large colliery, closed in December 2015, bringing to an end hundreds of years of deep mining in England
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Lower Wortley is a residential district in Leeds which was historically built for coalminers and mill workers due to Leeds’ historic involvement in both coal mining and textiles. Located in South Leeds between Leeds City Centre and Pudsey which makes commuting to the city centre which has the largest train station in the North of England very
The Leeds outer ring road is close by enabling access to a number of surrounding destinations, Bradford, Harrogate, York as well as the national motorway networks (M1, M62 and A1). Leeds/Bradford Airport is situated nearby at Yeadon. Leeds 5.5 miles, Bradford 11 miles, Harrogate 11 miles (Approx.)
Waterloo Mills was a steam-powered worsted mill that was built c. 1870. By the early twentieth century it was run as a room and power mill. The main buildings include a four-storey, eighteen-bay timber-floored mill of c. 1870, large sheds of various dates, offices, warehouses and a 1916 engine house containing a 1905 inverted vertical engine
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The Leeds Model Company was founded in 1912 by Reginald 'Rex' Frederick Stedman (1893-1959) in Leeds, England. Initially Stedman produced and sold completely hand-built models as during World War I the development of any machine tooling for mass creation of hobby products had been restricted. The company started by offering a range of die cast
C & J Antich. C & J Antich is a commission weaver, warper and mender in the Yorkshire fine worsted industry, producing the finest British worsted cloth for the world’s best known fashion brands. They have become the largest worsted manufacturer in the UK. They have over 40 machines, and are fully operational 120 hours every week
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May 21, 2007 HISTORY: The flax mill at Glasshouses was established in 1812 or 1814, on the site of a former water corn mill. The end of the C18 and the beginning of the C19 saw the establishment of a series of textile mills in the Nidd and Washburn valleys, initially cotton and a little later flax spinning
Many mills also received coal by boat, the last delivery of coal to the Aire Valley from collieries around Wakefield being around 1962. Shipley once had its own boatyard, which is recalled by the name of Dock Street. There was a covered slipway and a dry dock, close to the end of the Bradford Canal, and it
Jan 20, 2020 Leeds Industrial Museum, located just two miles west of Leeds city centre has transformed the former Armley Mills building (once the world’s largest woollen mills). Learn how wool was produced in Yorkshire from the 18th century onwards, and about the desperate conditions for the mill-workers. Discover more about Armley Mills here
By the end of the 17thcentury a large amount of woollen cloth was being sold in the markets of Leeds. Tanning was also carried out from the medieval period and coal mining by at
According to Domesday Book Leeds had a mill, a church and a priest. It was sited around the area of the present Parish Church and fared much better than many of its neighbouring villages. William's punitive devastation, the infamous ‘Harrying of the North' in 1069 reduced the area between the Humber and the Tees into a waste land
Although Leeds inhibited various trades, including a woollen mill from around 1400, no mention of growth and prosperous activity would take place until around the time of the Glorious Revolution in 1688, which was, in its own way, a prelude and seedling to the great Industrial Revolution which would take place a little over sixty years later