Midland Mills, Leeds

The new owner took advantage of the expansion of the flax spinning industry in the Holbeck area by diversifying into the manufacture of textile machinery.

The mills changed ownership a few years later when the owners moved to premises on Meadow Lane, selling the Midland Mills site to the Drabble Brothers who were in the employment of John Marshall at the same time as Matthew Murray.

Unfortunately the economic turbulence of the 1980s caused recession and the decline of manufacturing in the UK.

The closure of Midland Mills marked the end of the textile industry in Leeds.

Midland Mills is situated in the Holbeck Urban Village regeneration area.