Westwood Recreation Ground and Shirley Street, Leek

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Date:1929

Description:Aerial view of the area surrounding the Recreation Ground (bottom left) with Westwood Road running alongside its left-hand side, and Shirley Street (the diagonal row of houses) in the bottom right. Other notable streets and buildings are Waterloo Mill (centre of the picture), Leek Spun Silk (directly opposite the mill), and on a parallel with them, the factory which became Victoria Manufacturing in the late 1940s. Towards the top left hand corner of the photograph under the part of the image's title which reads, 'Westwood Recreation Ground' are part of Wardle and Davenport, West Street School and Chapel, Goodwin and Tatton's mill, which burnt down in the 1940s, Britannia Mill, Britannia Street School, and West Street.

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Donor ref:1994.493 (20/3795)

Source: Leek Museum:Staffordshire Moorlands District Council

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