Remembering Leeds - Morley's old industrial landscape

A young boy stands on land off Albert Road in the early 1960s where the former pit tip of Morley Main Colliery is being landscaped to provide more area for the parking of lorries and earth moving plant.

The view is looking westwards towards Morley old gasworks and its manager's house, and to the beginnings of the development of the site on Valley Road for Orcal 'Oil Recoveries'.

Immediately behind these are sidings for storing railway excursion carriages.

The slope up to the top of Daisy Hill shows old houses here being demolished under the slum clearance act, while new housing has been built along the continuation of New Bank Street.

Daisy Hill Mill chimney can be seen and in the distance are the tall chimneys of Laneside Mills.

There is also part of a pit tip of a Churwell colliery, a path round which was another approach to Daisy Hill.

This photo is published from the David Atkinson Archive, a collection housed on photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. They also run heritage blog The Secret Library Leeds, which provides a behind the scenes look at the Central Library and highlights from its special collections, including rare books hidden away in the stacks.

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