Montague Burton
Posted: Mon 17 Jun, 2019 9:22 pm
I have a very good friend I have known since I was knee high who works at the Burtons site in Harehills and has worked there for many many years.
This friend has seen plans within the office of Burtons in relation to selling the site in order to pull down the place and build houses by 2021.
I understand the main frontage with the Burtons sign is listed, however the rest of the building is not, this friend has told me of the old work rooms where the machines would have been which still have fittings in place and locked doors with what looks like a railway running underneath and beyond the doors which have been locked since he started at the place and says when you get close to the doors can feel cold air blowing.
Part of the historical fabric of Leeds will be lost when this happens along with a plethora of historical artefacts.
This friend also tells me that the playing fields at the bottom of the site were under covenant for 100 years as Montague Burton said they were to be for the use of the children and inhabitants of Leeds, they know plan to build a school on these fields as the time on this has almost expired.
To sum up the site is to be sold for houses to be built and a school built on the fields by 2021.
This friend has seen plans within the office of Burtons in relation to selling the site in order to pull down the place and build houses by 2021.
I understand the main frontage with the Burtons sign is listed, however the rest of the building is not, this friend has told me of the old work rooms where the machines would have been which still have fittings in place and locked doors with what looks like a railway running underneath and beyond the doors which have been locked since he started at the place and says when you get close to the doors can feel cold air blowing.
Part of the historical fabric of Leeds will be lost when this happens along with a plethora of historical artefacts.
This friend also tells me that the playing fields at the bottom of the site were under covenant for 100 years as Montague Burton said they were to be for the use of the children and inhabitants of Leeds, they know plan to build a school on these fields as the time on this has almost expired.
To sum up the site is to be sold for houses to be built and a school built on the fields by 2021.