Title

Wellington Mills, Strangman Street, Leek, Staffordshire, 1956

Caption

Wellington Mills, Strangman Street, Leek, Staffordshire, 1956. Exterior view showing the pedimented section with a lamp standard in the foreground. In the 17th and 18th centuries Leek was famed for producing silk of exceptional quality. When this mill was built in 1853, the importing of French and Italian silk into Britain had been illegal for 25 years. The lifting of this ban had a catastrophic affect on the silk workers in areas such as this.

Date

1956

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B39_385

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,9Mb (2,1Mb) / 14,5in x 14,4in / 4347 x 4331 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors road building buildings England architecture street industry manufacturing country trade British English lane lighting windows industrial factory avenue lamp location Victorian century architectural Britain fabric silk outside street lamp street light leek B&W Staffordshire MONOCHROME fifties textile industry 1950s 19th century oblique black & white black and white B W 20th century nineteenth century textile mill English Heritage decade textile manufacturing TGN photograph Eric de Maré Maré Eric de Mare Eric de Maré Eric de Mare Strangman Street Wellington Mills photograph