Late Victorian Burley Seven

Turning right past the derelict mock-Tudor building that once housed the Haddon Hall Picture Palace, we weave our way back to Burley Road among the terraced streets developed in the 1890's. A little further up the hill, opposite the old toll-keeper's house, stands the ex-factory inscribed in its stone frontage TAYLORS DRUG COMPANY. Until 1905 this site was occupied by a private home, Flowerbank House, named after the old fields that once occupied this land; the factory itself was originally known as the Flowerbank Works, and was subsequently taken over by Timothy Whites. It's still used as workshops and small industrial units.

On the opposite side of the road, beyond the toll-keeper's house, were the grounds of 'Southfield', a house set back from the road owned by Grosvenor Talbot, a Bradford stuff merchant, and the Victorian houses along St Ann's Lane, occupied at this time by other members of the upper middle-classes. A directory of the time, for instance, lists the occupations of the residents as publisher, cloth manufacturer, barrister, merchant and woollen merchant.

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