SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

Look at any leodis picture of the industrial areas of Leeds and you will see a forest of factory chimneys.Many of these remained standing long after they became obsolete but if you look round now there aren't many left.I've taken some pictures of what has become an endangered species.

The famous Kirkstall Brewery chimney.It isn't leaning,that was the wind!    

I've no idea what this building used to be but it's situated at the side of Houghley Ridge,Bramley.

St Marys Hospital,birth place of many Secret Leedsers,myself included.    

Part of the now partially demolished 'Yorkshire Dyeware and Chemicals' plant on Kirkstall Road

The famous Marshall Mills at Holbeck

Not sure what it's called now but it was once a canalside mill just west of Wellington Road.

It was all the way up to Rawdon for these last two

Whilst not surviving, you can see that Morley was not short of them in the past herehttp://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messages.aspx ... tMessage=0

Trojan wrote: Whilst not surviving, you can see that Morley was not short of them in the past herehttp://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messages.aspx ... tMessage=0 I do believe that there were 18 mills with chimneys in Morley and only 2 chimneys remain.The dreaded flat builders have built flats in all the currently available chapels and have taken to re-building previously demolished mills with fake mill look-alike buildings to house their "Luxury" apartments.You can't help but feel that one day the music will stop and it will be the developers who have apartment blocks in course of construction, or lots of unsold apartments at that instant that will cop for it. I always wondered how there were always lots of half built hotels in Mediterrranian resorts.