Kirkstall Abbey mystery photo

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Wed 05 Sep, 2007 10:50 pm

Can anyone explain this photo?It's from the tram website someone sent in.The caption reads'Kirkstall Abbey'but what part?

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 12:22 am

Looking at the pic ste i'd say it looks only a few hundred yards down from the abbey on Abbey rd. There's a bit of a park there with benches where the light railway terminates. I wonder if there was a lodge there at one time?

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 12:24 am

The pavement is still set back on an angle like in the old pic

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 12:25 am

It's only a guess but i'm sure someone will find something on Leodis or dig out an old map to solve the riddle mate!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 9:47 am

I wonder if there is something int he Leeds Transport Books. There must be as there are LOADS of photos in there. I'll have a look later unless someone else comes back first.

FarnleyBloke · Post by **FarnleyBloke** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 10:32 am

Ok Phil i've been on the maps and there is nothing there until the 1909 map when the pavement becomes set back and there is a building marked - Lodge. Weird though that there is nothing there before that as the building looks older than that imo (but i'm obviously wrong)

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 11:25 am

Just had a look on the map too, and it looks like the lodge is an entry gtate for the park around Kirkstall Abbey. I wonder if it was built when the council took control over the abbey grounds with the big 'push' on the whole civic priode thing and the provision of green space aroung the city. It is quire reminiscent of the one at Roundhay Park that I mentioned on another thread. Gates at Princes Avenue, They appear on maps around this time, were not on any previous ones, and then disappear? Stranger and stranger.....

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 7:07 pm

Oh good it's the right place then... MMM have to agree with you Farnley the buildings do look older!

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Thu 06 Sep, 2007 10:10 pm

Phill_d wrote: It's only a guess but i'm sure someone will find something on Leodis or dig out an old map to solve the riddle mate! Cheers Phill,according to Kirkstall Abbey online,there was a gatehouse at one time(now demolished!)and this certainly resembles a gatehouse.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Fri 07 Sep, 2007 12:33 am

stevief, is that not the Vesper Gate that the website menitons? I thought this as on the other side of the road near the Vesper Gate pub, just behind it somewhere?