Railway in New Farnley

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Phill_d
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I've dug some pics of Farnley fireclay out if anybody can suss the location out from these views
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FarnleyBloke wrote: Hi SquatchWent there from 91 to 94 so round about the same time. Got married in St Michaels so probably happier memories for me! Ah, you went there when they let girls in! That was probably much more fun than when I was there and we only had the burning down and flooding to have fun with....

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Squatch_11 wrote: FarnleyBloke wrote: Hi SquatchWent there from 91 to 94 so round about the same time. Got married in St Michaels so probably happier memories for me! Ah, you went there when they let girls in! That was probably much more fun than when I was there and we only had the burning down and flooding to have fun with.... Yes I was there until '92 and remember the fire and flood very well!!!
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FarnleyBloke wrote: Chris, just coming back to your original picture at the top, following the line of the embankment to the left in the light coloured field there is a further line that could have been a continuation of the track bed. I have looked on a map of 1852 and on a direct line is something marked Old Coal Pit (Not far from Back Lane) so it may be that the line was put in after 1852 running from a re-opened coal pit down to the fireclay works! Phew! Hi Farnley Bloke,I have noticed this continuation of the line in the light coloured field also, it seems like you might have something there.If you go to the top of Low Moor Side Lane heading out of New Farnley, in the field opposite the first row of houses you come to, there is (or was) an old mine shaft fenced off. It was clearly visible from the roadside and well known locally. This could possibly be the Old Coal Pit you mention.If you have a look at the attached pic, you can clearly see the pit as a dark square in the field.
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Phill_d wrote: Cheers Chris. The Farnley fireclay & a bit of railway around Beeston are the only areas i haven't gone over with a fine tooth comb. I'll have to have a good nosey at whats left. I seem to remember an embankement in the early 80's. I'm trying to figure out where i was working @ the time to trace the area down. Did the fireclay have a mainline connection do you know. The maps i have suggests it did. Although it's out of scale & appears to run over Wortley recreation ground. It couldn't connect with the mainline that way as it's down a pretty steep cutting. Ask Rikj...This line has bugged me for a while. I can't work it out :-/ Hi Phill, yes I believe the Fireclay mainline connection would have been through the Dunlop & Ranken site. The lie of the land is better for a railway in that direction!
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Phill,The aerial pic you have posted of the Fireclay works is interesting, if you look at the bottom right of the pic, the road you can see is Whitehall Road heading towards Leeds off to the right of the pic. The mill building at the side of the road still stands today albeit without the chimney stack!
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On the subject of the owners of the Fireclay, the Armitage family owned it up until recent times as far as I can make out.The family occupied Farnley Hall as their main residence.
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The above pic shows where a railway crossed over Lawns Lane (passing through Barkers Well Farm) to the North of New Farnley as I mentioned at the start of the thread. I will have to find that old photo which shows this location in the early 1900's
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