BarFly wrote: Wasn't The Drysalters near a meat curing plant or similar? It was adjacent to Elland Road, an old salt trail from Cheshire. Also, AIUI, tanneries (and there are plenty of them thereabouts) used salt to preserve hides.
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Geordie-exile wrote: Whistlestop at Beeston harks back to its rail history I would think. I stand to be corrected but the railway has never been closer and it isn't even as close to the old Beeston Station which I suspect had been closed before the building that currently houses the whistlestop was built. I know not whether the current Whistlestop replaced an older incarnation.
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