Sheepscar Works (Buslingthorpe Tannery), Leeds, August 2010 - Image Heavy.

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KooK.

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Explored with Jim (off-forum)

Second visit here for me, photos are from both explores. It's pretty stripped, but there are random bits left here and there, access to the ground floor is pretty hard as there is only one set of stairs and there's a steel door at the bottom. Managed to spend a good couple of hours in here.

Circa 1930
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The Victorian Buslingthorpe Tannery was built in the 19th century aroudn Meanwood Beck and was an important part of Leeds' industrial heritage. Leeds' leatherwork output at the time was second only to London. At some point it was changed to Sheepscar Works and separated into various units, mostly clothing manufacturers.

It has since been designated a protected area, but there are plans to flatten the newer surrounding industry redevelop the works as flats and erect some town houses. Other mills in the area are Hill Top Works which is completely sealed (except for a small building that was used as an MOT garage), Sheepscar Tannery (still part live, part converted into self storage warehouses.) and Buslingthorpe Mills (converted into small industrial units).

We found documents & calendars in the upper floors from '95/'96 but on the first floor found some chequebooks from as recent as '06

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7. Conference room.
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17. Obviously employed Leeds' best signwriters.
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Thanks for looking :mrgreen:
 
Pleased to see the place is still standing. Used to walk past it every Friday night on the way home from the Poly disco to Chapel Allerton.

It was a real spooky place at night. It had it's own boiler house which every now and then would let out long hisses of steam, followed by clunking and gurgling noises. Scared the cr*p out of me.
 
wow i've not been there for years, I worked for the company that manufactured and installed the machinery in pic 12. Thanks for the trip down memory lane :)
 
Cheers, well it looks like it will be standing for some time once it gets approval and turned into (more) empty flats!
 
Excellent stuff mate, nice to see some more reports from the home city :) i've always wanted to do this place, as its only down the road from me!
 
Yeah its good, I'm prob heading back in a couple of weeks and maybe do the culvert if you fancy it just drop me a pm.
 

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