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Description:
1966.
View of the Farnley Iron Company (Fireclay Works) Ltd. taken from Whitehall Road, the nearest the photographer could get to the blast furnaces site. The Leeds Fireclay company manufactured glazed bricks and fireclay goods and had various mines around Gelderd Road. An electric narrow gauge railway line transported clay from a mine near the old cattle market in Gelderd Road up across the Whitehall Road railway bridge to Wortley. Photograph and information supplied by Mr. I.C. Dodsworth.
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