greenside

History Greenside Mill was built around 1770 by William Marsden who's daughter married Richard Field who then traded there for a number of years until forming the partnership of Field & Bottrill in the 1880's. Richard Field, born in 1804, took full control of the business, which he gradually...

History Greenside Mill was built in 1770 by William Marsden. He acquired Richard Field as an apprentice who later went on to marry Marsden's daughter, and by 1830 was in full control at Greenside. Marsden had previously bought some land which had a stream running through, suitable for damming...

Greenside Tunnel - 618 Yards — G.N.R PUDSEY & LOW MOOR BRANCH — In 1882 the Great Northern Railway & Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway entered into an agreement to build a series of short connections to existing railways with a view of improving existing services through mutual running of the...

1. The History Greenside Mill was built circa 1770 by William Marsden. Born in 1804, Richard Field, became apprentice to Marsden at the age of 14 in 1828. A staunch Methodist, Field married Marsden’s daughter, Ruth, and gradually changed the business from a ‘fancy’ weaving operation to shawl...

This has been a long time coming tbh, we always fancied dabbling in the massive company of Dawson Fur Fabrics and after seeing the recant security we didn't accept the entrance to be, well, so easy! Dawsons was a great company, I remember it working and the door been open when I was younger...

History The mill was used by a fabric production company. They produced products for companies such as Marks and Spencer’s, but the bank pulled funding and the factory closed in 2006, putting 70-80 people out of work. Our Visit Unfortunately it was a fairly brief visit. Had to do abit of...

|History| William Marsden founded the textile business at Skelmanthorpe’s Greenside Mills, around 1770 he built Greenside Mill. 1828 - Richard Field, born in 1804, the son of John Field, had also worked in the family textile business from a young age, but at 14 became apprentice to William...

Greenside Mill pictured sometime before 1923... (Picture source) I couldn’t resist jumping on this one while I knew it was still accessible and intact. Having tried and failed on a number of mills over the last few years I was determined not to miss out on this. Given the amount of stuff still...

Another factory, tucked away and almost un-noticable unless you look. Tweek had an initial poke and I joined him for a foray into this fairly secure site to try and find a way into the derelict parts, typically this was sealed up tight and we ended up in the live parts (caveat, this is Live...

once I met with Reflux had no idea of the plan for today, we went too Greenside tunnel ( which I had knew about but hadnt been). access? well I hate palisade too say the least, sure my fellow explorer will be along too tell you about this. :D :p thanks too reflux for suggesting and taking me to...

The Pudsey Greenside Tunnel was opened in 1892 completing the Pudsey Loop to the west of Pudsey Town. The Tunnel is 616 yards long. The eastern end opens into a sheer sided cutting, containing a lot of flytipped waste. It is proposed that this eastern approach cutting will be backfilled with...

The eastern portal and approach cutting to this 616-yard tunnel are soon to be lost beneath infill. It formed part of an extension to the Stanningley-Pudsey (Greenside) line which crossed a massive embankment (reputed to be the most substantial in Europe) before reaching a junction at...