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Cottingley Housing Estate, Pre-Fab Plan

1948. Plan showing the layout of a typical pre-fabricated home built on the Cottingley Housing Estate in the late 1940s. The pre-fabs were built on the site of the old Cottingley ...

Cottingley Hall Farm, plan

1930. View shows a plan of the layout of Cottingley Hall Farm as it was in 1930, including the farmhouse, garden, well, greenhouse, sheds, barn, stables, cowshed, hay yard, graine...

Ring Road Beeston, junction with Elland Road

c1950s. View showing Ring Road Beeston by the junction with Elland Road. On the left is Crow Nest House, part of the Crow Nest Works, formerly the sausage skin factory of Kraft & ...

Cottingley, long-distance view from railway line

c1970. Long-distance view looking towards Cottingley from the railway line beside the disused Beeston station. The tower blocks of Cottingley Heights and Cottingley Towers, reput...

Cottingley, long-distance view from Crow Nest Lane

1980s. Long-distance view looking south-west over to Cottingley from Crow Nest Lane. On the right, a footbridge is seen crossing the railway line, while on the left is Sulzers eng...

Dulverton Green, looking north-west

1985. View of Dulverton Green looking north-west towards the flats of Cottingley Towers and Cottingley Heights. On the left is the edge of no.17, behind this no.29 and facing the ...

Snittles Farm, looking towards Cottingley

1985. View looking east towards Cottingley showing Snittles Farm in the centre. The tower block of Cottingley Towers and Cottingley Heights are in the centre surrounded by early 1...

Cottingley Heights and Towers, looking north-east

Undated. Looking north-east at the high-rise flats of Cottingley Heights, left, and Cottingley Towers, believed to be the tallest blocks of flats in Leeds. Opened in 1972 they are...

Cottingley Hall Cemetery and Crematorium, chapel and grounds

c1980s. View of Cottingley Hall Cemetery and Crematorium on Churwell Ring Road, showing a chapel and grounds, with flower beds in the foreground. The cemetery was built on the sit...

Cottingley Hall Farm, Well and Greenhouses

1930s. View of Cottingley Hall Farm taken in the 1930s showing a well in the garden and greenhouses behind with the Great Barn seen in the background. A young boy stands beside th...

Cottingley Hall Farm, farmyard

1930s. View of Cottingley Hall Farm taken in the 1930s showing the farmyard with the farmer, Mr. Illingworth, his wife and another woman standing beside his car. In the background...

Cottingley Hall Farm, kitchen and hen house

1930s. View of Cottingley Hall Farm showing the hen house in the foreground with hens around outside. To the right a side view of the farmhouse shows the kitchen windows. Next to ...

Cottingley Hall Farm, garden

1930s. View showing the garden of Cottingley Hall Farm with the gate in the centre and part of the farmhouse just visible on the left. A small boy is standing in front of the gate...

Cottingley Hall Farm, looking south

1930s. View of Cottingley Hall Farm looking towards the south taken in the 1930s. The view shows the farmhouse surrounded by a walled garden. Part of the farmhouse, known as Cotti...

Cottingley Hall Farm, exterior view

1930s. View of Cottingley Hall facing south, taken in the 1930s when it was being used as a farm. Two women stand in front of the doorway. The old hall, which was named in records...

Cottingley Hall Farm, exterior view

Undated. View of Cottingley Hall Farm taken in Victorian times. The old hall dated back to at least 1556 when it was recorded that an Adam de Clapham lived at Cottingley Hall. In ...

Cottingley Approach, Cottingley Library

c1980s. View of Cottingley Branch Library, situated on Cottingley Approach. This library is now closed.

Cottingley Approach, Cottingley Library

1995. Exterior view of Cottingley Library on Cottingley Approach. Built in the 1980s as part of the new Community Centre, it replaced the old library housed in Cottingley School b...

Cottingley Approach, Cottingley Library

1995. Exterior view of Cottingley Branch Library, based in the Community Centre building situated on Cottingley Approach. Various notices are displayed in the window including one...

Cottingley Library, Interior View

1952. View taken at the opening of the old Cottingley Library. This was a small branch library based at Cottingley School which opened in the evenings only. It was later replace...

Cottingley, prefab

1970s. View of a prefabricated house with garden in an unidentified area of Cottingley. Taken between 1971 and 1973.

M621 motorway, under construction, new beck culvert

1970s. View of the construction site of the M621 motorway showing a new beck culvert which is being built to carry Farnley Wood Beck under the motorway. The remains of the disused...

Cottingley Towers, View from

1970s. View from Cottingley Towers looking down on new housing on Cottingley Drive, and further out towards Gatenby's Pig Farm and Pit Hill at Churwell, with Cartlidge's Farm in t...

M621 motorway, under construction, new beck culvert

1970s. View from the diused New Line railway line showing the construction of a new beck culvert for Farnley Wood Beck, to run under the M621 motorway which is shortly to be built...

M621 motorway, underpass, under construction,

1970s. Looking from the Tanhouse Brickworks across fields towards the construction site of the M621 motorway, showing the entrance to the Snittles Farm Underpass. Telegraph poles ...

Snittle's Farm, from Pit Hill

1970s. View from Pit Hill towards Snittles Farm and the disused Leeds New Line railway in the early 1970s shortly before work started on the construction of the M621 Gildersome to...

M621 motorway, underpass, under construction

1970s. View from the New Line railway line of the construction of an underpass for the M621 motorway, showing the start of the underpass near to Snittles Farm. Taken between 1971 ...

M621 motorway, under construction, bridge over railway

1970s. View of the M621 motorway under construction showing the building of a bridge to carry the M621 over the Leeds-Manchester railway line at Cottingley. Building machinery can...

M621 motorway, under construction, site of the railway bridge

1970s. View from Snittles Farm of the Leeds-Manchester railway line at Cottingley, showing the site where a new bridge is to be built to carry the M621 motorway over the railway. ...

M621 motorway, underpass, under construction

1970s. View from Pit Hill looking towards the Snittles Farm Underpass during the construction of the M621 Gildersome to Leeds motorway between 1971 and 1973. In the foreground a p...

M621 motorway, under construction, from Cottingley Towers

1970s. View from the top of Cottingley Towers, showing Cottingley Heights on the left, and looking down on Cottingley Hall Cemetery and Crematorium at the bottom, with, in the cen...

M621 motorway, underpass, under construction

1970s. View taken from the disused New Line railway showing the construction of the underpass for the M621 motorway near Snittles Farm. Taken between 1971 and 1973 during the buil...

M621 motorway, underpass, under construction

1970s. View from Cottingley of the early stages of construction of a new pedestrian underpass to the M621 motorway, leading from beside Old Cottingley Hall to the Pack Horse. Take...

Dulverton Grove and Dulverton Place, houses under construction

1970s. View showing building work in progress on houses on Dulverton Place, with the tower blocks of Cottingley Towers in the background. Various building materials can be seen. ...

M621 motorway, underpass, under construction

1970s. View from Snittles farm showing the construction of the underpass for the M621 motorway, which will lead towards Churwell and Morley. Taken between 1971 and 1973.

M621 motorway, underpass, under construction

1970s. View of the construction of a new pedestrian underpass to the M621 by Old Cottingley Hall Leading to the Pack Horse. Taken during the building of the motorway between 1971 ...

M621 motorway, under construction, new lane to Snittles Underpass

1970s. Looking from Farnley Wood Beck to the site of the M621 motorway under construction, showing a new lane leading to the Snittles Farm Underpass. Dating from sometime between ...

M621 motorway under construction, new beck culvert

1970s. View of the M621 motorway under construction showing the site of the new beck culvert being built to carry Farnley Wood Beck under the motorway. Various motorway machinery ...

M621 motorway, under construction, site of railway bridge

1970s. Looking from Snittles Farm towards the Leeds/Manchester railway line, showing the site of the new bridge that will carry the M621 motorway over the railway. A train is comi...

M621 motorway, under construction

1970s. View of the site of the M621 motorway, under construction, looking from the disused New Line railway towards Cottingley and Snittles Farm. The tower blocks of Cottingley To...

Dulverton Grove and Dulverton Place, new housing

1970s. View taken between 1971 and 1973 of new housing at Cottingley. Dulverton Grove is on the left and houses on Dulverton Grove is on the left and houses on Dulverton Place on ...

Cottingley Chase, Dulverton Grove and Dulverton Place, new housing

1970s. Overhead view of new housing at Cottingley, seen from Cottingley Towers. Cottingley Chase is in the foreground, with Dulverton Place to the right further back. Several gard...

Dulverton Place and Dulverton Grove, new housing

1970s. View taken between 1971 and 1973 looking over new housing on Dulverton Place and Dulverton Grove towards the site of the M621 motorway under construction. The upper Jewish ...

Dulverton Green and Churwell, from Cottingley

1970s. Long distance view from Cottingley, showing Dulverton Green and Dulverton crescent in the foreground, and Churwell in the background beyond the railway line. Elland Road ru...

Cottingley Towers, view from

1970s. View taken from the top of Cottingley Towers, looking out at housing on Dulverton Grove and Dulverton Place. In the background, construction work on the M621 motorway is ta...

Ring Road Beeston, Elland Road junction, from Cottingley Towers

1970s. Looking down from the top of Cottingley Towers, showing at the centre left the junction between Ring Road Beeston, the top road, and Elland Road, the lower road. Below thes...

Ring Road Beeston, from Cottingley Towers

1970s. View from the top of Cottingley Towers, looking down on Ring Road Beeston running from left to right in the foreground. On the left is the junction with Cottingley Drive an...

Ring Road Beeston and Elland Road, long distance view from Cottingley

1970s. Long distance view from Cottingley showing Ring Road Beeston running from bottom right to centre left, where it meets the site, currently under construction, of Junction 1 ...

Cottingley, prefab

1970s. View of a prefabricated house in an unidentified area of cottingley. Taken between 1971 and 1973.

M621 motorway, underpass, under construction

1970s. View from Cottingley of the construction of a new pedestrian underpass which will lead under the M621 motorway from near Old Cottingley Hall to the Pack Horse. Taken betwee...