The drone camera images include those of work on the first of three large mills which is being brought back to life as mixed-use premises with 80,000ft sq of offices, a rooftop restaurant, a food hall and a microbrewery. A large crane has been much in evidence in recent weeks, lifting girders into place for the top floor transformation.
The work on Mill One is forecasted to complete later this year but developer Heaton Group is already getting locals into Eckersley hospitality mode with its highly Feast at the Mills events in the grounds each weekend.
But there is so much more to come with further phases involving the two other major mills – one given council permission to be converted into 137 apartments – and other outbuildings set to evolve in the years ahead.
1. Eckersley's Mills with a crane putting girders into place for the rooftop restaurant
. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard
2. A picture that shows the sheer scale of the project lying ahead with the two as-yet-untouched mills in the foreground
. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard
3. A view of the mills from above The Edge, with Pottery Terrace in the foreground
. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard
4. The site bordering Pottery Terrace, Fourteen Meadows Road and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal on two sides
. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard