Description and History of Site:-
Originally known as Park Mills, the first and eventually one of the largest integrated woollen mills in the Leeds area.

Giles and Goodall wrote: "Established by Benjamin Gott, woollen merchant, in 1792 as integrated woollen mill. Early complex comprised a large steam-powered mill for scribbling, carding and fulling, spinning rooms, long ranges of loomshops, a dyewood-grinding mill, probably dyehouses, and finishing shops. Later expansion saw rebuilding of dyehouses, construction of heated cloth dryhouses, the first, in 1814, being the earliest known example of the type in the county, extensions to the mill, including work between 1824 and 1829 by William Fairbairn, warehouses, and a gas plant. In terms of organisation of production and of scale, Bean Ing Mills was of great significance. Demolished."

The mill shut down on Friday January 4th 1963 and the whole site demolished in 1965. Archaeological excavation conducted on the site in summer 2017, after the demolition of the later (1970) Yorkshire Post building itself demolished in 2014.

Further Reading and References:-
Yorkshire Textile Mills 1770-1930 Colum Giles and Ian H Goodall 1992 London HMSO.
http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=7117
http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2006210_160628
https://www.thoresby.org.uk/content/lantern/Box09/box09-21.php (Image of the Gasholder)

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Address :- Wellington Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 4DL
Grid Ref :- SE 28968 33426
Co-ordinates :- Lat 53.796341 , Long -1.561711
Local Authority :- Leeds Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Site demolished or no longer extant
Site Condition :- Site cleared - no above ground remains visible
Site Dates :- 1792 - 1965
Record Date :- 3 August 2016

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