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| Boyles' Quarry to Burmantofts Works. (Burmantofts) (4 comments) |
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View of the quarry belonging to brick manufacturer's J & C Boyle of St. Stephen's Road. Beyond are the chimneys of Burmantofts Works, The Leeds Fireclay Co. Ltd, producers of glazed clay known as Burmantofts Faience and terra-ctta from the late 1870s. The brickworks closed in 1957.
Photograph courtesy of Terry Cryer.
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| Burmantofts' Works from Boyles' Quarry (Burmantofts) (1 comment) |
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View of Burmantofts' Works, premises of the Leeds Fireclay Company Ltd. This is pre-dates 1957 when the works closed as the chimneys are smoking. The company was famous in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century for the production of glazed clay known as Burmantofts Faience and terra-cotta. It was located on Torre Road. Also seen is the demolition underway of red brick terraced streets in the vicinity. The area was re-developed as the Ebor Gardens Housing Estate.
Photograph courtesy of Terry Cryer.
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| Farnley Iron Company (Fireclay Works) Ltd. (Farnley) |
| 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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| Freehold Street with views to Burmantofts Works across Torre Road. (Burmantofts) (3 comments) |
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Image shows Freehold Street with view to Burmantofts Works of the Leeds Fireclay Co. Ltd, terra cotta manufacturers in Torre Road. The company was famous for producing glazed clay or Faience but closed in 1957. Torre Road runs from left to right behind the buildings. Much of the property on this side of Freehold Street has been demolished, except for the end block, numbers 103 to 109.
Photograph courtesy of Terry Cryer.
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| Webster Row, Rear View, Leeds Fireclay Company (Wortley) (3 comments) |
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In the foreground are products of the Leeds Fireclay Company, back of Websters Row is in the back ground. Wortley has large deposits of clay, the Ingham family owned land in the area with under lying. In 1825 William Ingham founded the company using the clay to manufacture a vast range of goods. Fire bricks, furnace bricks, bricks finished with a coloured glaze, sanitary fittings and baths, terracotta for building works and garden ornaments were all produced. Ingham's sons joined the company, the family were active in the political and social life of the area. oseph Cliff also a Wortley man had the Sanitary Tube works, his son Walter Cliff succeeded him. The company became part of the Leeds Fireclay Company.
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