Aire Mile 46 Kirkstall 120’

Aire Mile 46 Kirkstall 109’

Extract from the Third report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of rivers : (Rivers Aire and Calder). Published 1867

Swale Mr W Leeds P 208 

6539 Do you ever notice any carcasses floating in the becks and mill goits and streams? – Very often at certain seasons. Of course after a flood like this we should not have so many. In one day the scavenger removed 50 bodies out of the Aire itself, consisting of cats, dogs and pigs.