Late Victorian Burley Nine

From here to the railway viaduct grew the industrial heart of Burley. Next to two old cottages, nos 470 and 472, stands the former home of Lowe Engineering (and before that, a printing works owned by the same Gaines family who ran the Haddon Hall Cinema). Opposite is the long-established site of Burley Mill, though the original six-storey mill was burnt down and replaced in 1918. A few hundred yards further on, Kirkstall Road School, built in 1904, towers imposingly over the landscape; opposite, on the river side of the road, two low factories were built in the 1900's, the Cardigan and Jumbo Boot factories (both factories, and the school, are scheduled for demolition at the time of writing, 1992).

River Aire and Burley Mills

Soon, opposite the bottom of Haddon Place, you come to Redcote Lane, leading to the old Ha'penny Bridge. The area to the right was Cardigan Fields. Here, in the 1890's, back-to-back housing was developed cheek-by-jowl with the then new mills and factories along Milford Place: Burley New Mills (which made carpets), Burley Vale Mills or Pilgrims Mill, which dates from the 1870's, and Cardigan Mill, first recorded in 1878 as a woollen mill.

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