Underground Mabgate.

[buffaloskinner]

Phil - Have a look at the few maps available on http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html although after viewing them I dont think you will get much more info than has already been given.

[Phill_dvsn]

buffaloskinner wrote: Phil - Have a look at the few maps available on http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html although after viewing them I dont think you will get much more info than has already been given. Your a star.Thanks for the link. i'll take a good look.Cheers

[buffaloskinner]

While looking at old Leeds I also found this little snippetIn Mabgate and in Marsh Lane there are still reminders of the war to this day. In Mabgate there are two doors which lead into what were the air raid shelters and you can see scars of the German bombs which fell on Woodpecker junction.

[cnosni]

Phil,just wait for the master of maps,Si,to materialise.

[Phill_dvsn]

cnosni wrote: Phil,just wait for the master of maps,Si,to materialise. Oh yes si.He likes getting stuck into these old maps I'm having a great time with those old maps Buffalo added the link to. Great stuff. The amount of info on there is amazing. I'm just having a play with some old photos at the minute.I've superimposed (rather unprofessionally) today's skyline on this shot to get your bearing. Thats the old Lady road bridge in 1913 before the beck went underground. The marquis of Granby would stand next to the bridge in todays world. Millgarth, and Quarry hill behind.That old bridge still survives underground too.How times have changed     

[Steve Jones]

Phil, also round there and marked on the 1850 map is the original Lady Well which was roughly behind the present jobcentre.i have always assumed that it linked to mabgate somewhere.It was a very old Holy Well.

[Phill_dvsn]

Steve Jones wrote: Phil, also round there and marked on the 1850 map is the original Lady Well which was roughly behind the present jobcentre.i have always assumed that it linked to mabgate somewhere.It was a very old Holy Well. I bet this is one and the same Steve!Old well uncovered during beck covering construction work Lady lane area.    

[Phill_dvsn]

I know you like the wells, springs, and spa stuff Steve.I'm sure your aware about this, but i thought i'd post it here. You may find something useful.Photo dating from the early to mid 1950s, showing Sheepscar Beck. On the left is the Springwell works, a large factory built as a leather works, then used as a cloth finishing and dye works. The beck would be of varying colours due to the waste which this and other factories released into it. To the right is a haulage yard, this was the business of Yardley Transport Ltd, Leeds and London. They also opened a garage at the junction of Meanwood and Cambridge Roads, which was named after the original site. **The yard was in the vicinity of Spa Buildings, the area built around an ancient sulphur spring. The garage was called the Spa Garage**    

[Cardiarms]

buffaloskinner wrote: While looking at old Leeds I also found this little snippetIn Mabgate and in Marsh Lane there are still reminders of the war to this day. In Mabgate there are two doors which lead into what were the air raid shelters and you can see scars of the German bombs which fell on Woodpecker junction. The wall around the old Marsh Lane goods yard looks like its got a few German dints.

[dogduke]

Cardiarms wrote: buffaloskinner wrote: While looking at old Leeds I also found this little snippetIn Mabgate and in Marsh Lane there are still reminders of the war to this day. In Mabgate there are two doors which lead into what were the air raid shelters and you can see scars of the German bombs which fell on Woodpecker junction. The wall around the old Marsh Lane goods yard looks like its got a few German dints.Not looked to closely at the Marsh Lane walldamage as regards bomb damage but there was hell of a gap after a steam engine ran away and crashed thro'the wall into the main road.The photograph of this event is included in the QHF book Momento Mori and a large print is in the Fountain Head pub