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| Meanwood Beck, view from (Meanwood) (1 comment) |
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View from Meanwood Beck looking across fields towards Woodhouse Ridge, showing in the distance (from left) Grange Court on North Grange Mount, followed by a row of houses on Ridge Terrace. On the right in the middle distance is Woodlands Dyeworks, the business of the Crowther family.
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| Meanwood, from Woodhouse Ridge (Meanwood) |
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Looking across Meanwood from Woodhouse Ridge. In the centre is Woodlands Dyeworks, owned by the Crowther family. Said to date back to around 1601, it had previously been known as Wood's Mill then Rowley's Mill.
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| Wood Lane, Woodlands Dyeworks (Meanwood) |
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View of Woodlands Dyeworks situated off Wood Lane. The view looks south-west with the bridge over Meanwood Beck on the right and in the background Grange Court on North Grange Mount (left) and houses on Ridge Terrace (right). Woodlands Dyeworks is said to have been built around 1601 for grinding corn. Its previous occupiers have included Benjamin Pullan, merchant, in the late 1700s then Thomas Wood and his son Jacob, corn and oil millers. In 1865 Benjamin Rowley took over the lease and used the mill for crushing sandstone from the adjacent quarry. The property was bought in 1906 by Edward Crowther, a successful dyer, who had occupied part of the premises since around 1890. Three generations of the Crowther family subsequently ran the business but it began to collapse after the Second World War with the premises being not easily accessible and unsuitable for modern industrial operations. In 1974 Leeds Corporation bought the then derelict property, demolished the buildings and landscaped the site.
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| Woodlands Dyeworks (Meanwood) |
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View of Woodlands Dyeworks off Wood Lane showing a flat-backed truck with the name 'Gilbert Crowther, Woodland Dyeworks, Headingley, Leeds', on the door. Two children are seen in the yard.
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| Woodlands Dyeworks, cottage (Meanwood) |
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View shows a cottage at Woodlands Dyeworks, situated off Wood Lane. The dyeworks, formerly Wood's Mill then Rowley's Mill, had been owned by the Crowther family since 1906 when Edward Crowther, originally of Morley, bought the property of which he had been renting a part since 1890.
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