Holbeck Again, Canals and Mills

I’ve been back to Holbeck again after my first photo exploration, looking for a few old buildings such as the mill here on Low Hall Place that I have explored on google maps.

Hunslet is very much a place of change at the moment. While the managed zone for street prostitution persists, something that should be a progressive idea, but is failing through mismanagement, butts up against the remaining back to backs and the attempts to gentrify the south bank it is also a place of turmoil. From the old yards such a Low Hall Place to the clean side streets off Water Lane it will be interesting to see how this place develops over time.

I walked out a little way along the river, past Leeds Dock, itself an example of a slightly failed project as it has not quite lived up to it’s aims as a new centerpiece of South Leeds, and over Leeds Lock, down under the South Accomodarion Road as far as Knowsthorpe.

A key landmark here is Hunslet Mill, a flax spinning mill built around 1842 and an example of early fireproof construction methods. It closed in 1966 and has remained derelict since – somewhere I would really like to try and get into at some point.

I’ll leave this short photo-essay with the marker post on the central island between Knostropp cut and the Aire, beckoning forward for more exploration down the canal.