Great Horton station goods.

As you can see the transport of goods was quite a

major part of the railways work until the greater

ease of road transport took over, just as the railways

put the canals out of business then the roads put the

railways out of business.

 

 

I remember the yard as it is here and also as it

became when Baird's television works took over

the site. The mill in the upper left distance is

Ikaringill's.  Ira and his brother, James, owned

Legrams spinning mill in Bradford, England. This

mill was started in 1860 by James and Ira. Many

of our neighbours when we moves to Rugby Place

worked at the mill

 

 

Here a very old postcard of the mills from the air

The road running along the length of the mill in

the foreground is Legrams lane from which the

mills took their name. In my younger days after

moving from Thornton we lived to the west of

the mill which is to the right of the picture in

the lower part of Lidget Green. Legrams lane

ran all the way up to Clayton where there was

another station on the Great Northern line.