Dean Clough Mills

Dean Clough in Halifax, West Yorkshire is a group of large factory buildings built in the 1840s–60s for Crossley's Carpets, becoming one of the world's largest carpet factories (half a mile long with 1,250,000 square feet of floorspace).  After years of declining production it closed in 1983, and was sold to a consortium led by Sir Earnest Hall which developed the Grade II listed site for various commercial and cultural uses. It is now seen as a leading example of successful urban regeneration.


Among the many commercial uses are restaurants and the last time we ate at one of these I thought then that it would be interesting to visit the site with the camera; today I got around to doing just that and I enjoyed blipping the change of view. You can see from the signage that one section of the site has been taken on by Travel Lodge  -  judging from the number of cars there it would seem to be doing well.