New coal bagging plant, St. Peter's Wharf : Leeds Industrial Co-Operative Society Ltd : in Ferro-Concrete Review, December 1932
A description of the works undertaken by the Yorkshire Hennebique Contracting Company for the Leeds Industrial Co-Operative Society at St. Peter's Wharfe in the city. It was the second of two similar schemes - in 1931 was upstream at the Victoria Bridge Wharf.
The works involved a new wharf frontage, with concrete piles driven 6ft below river bed level. The crane was supplied by Joesph Booth's of Rodley and the grabs were from Priestman Bros. of Hull. The bunkers fed either the six bagging hoppers that fed 17 outlets or two gravity hoppers from which 4-ton lorries could be loaded. The coal came in by barge on the River Aire and the site, as can be seen from the photograph, was adjacent to The Calls with St. Peter's Church in the background. The Co-op were large suppliers of domestic coal and even, at times, owned collieries themselves through the CWS.
The wharf is long gone now being the site of modern structures.
New coal bagging plant, St. Peter's Wharf : Leeds Industrial Co-Operative Society Ltd : in Ferro-Concrete Review, December 1932
A description of the works undertaken by the Yorkshire Hennebique Contracting Company for the Leeds Industrial Co-Operative Society at St. Peter's Wharfe in the city. It was the second of two similar schemes - in 1931 was upstream at the Victoria Bridge Wharf.
The works involved a new wharf frontage, with concrete piles driven 6ft below river bed level. The crane was supplied by Joesph Booth's of Rodley and the grabs were from Priestman Bros. of Hull. The bunkers fed either the six bagging hoppers that fed 17 outlets or two gravity hoppers from which 4-ton lorries could be loaded. The coal came in by barge on the River Aire and the site, as can be seen from the photograph, was adjacent to The Calls with St. Peter's Church in the background. The Co-op were large suppliers of domestic coal and even, at times, owned collieries themselves through the CWS.
The wharf is long gone now being the site of modern structures.