Railway cottages

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Wed 15 Aug, 2007 12:05 pm

simonm wrote: Being a former Gunner / Bombadier myself you are quite right. Leeds has had a decent history with the Royal Artillery. We presently have 269Bty at Carlton Barracks and the road "Barrack road" once housed the Royal Horse Artillery regiment! Trinity Church is the official church of the Royal Artillery in Leeds as well! Didn't there used to be the remains of what looked like old stables on Barrack Road?At it's highest point,where the car showroom is now.I can remember seeing them until the early 90's.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 15 Aug, 2007 12:09 pm

stevief wrote: simonm wrote: Being a former Gunner / Bombadier myself you are quite right. Leeds has had a decent history with the Royal Artillery. We presently have 269Bty at Carlton Barracks and the road "Barrack road" once housed the Royal Horse Artillery regiment! Trinity Church is the official church of the Royal Artillery in Leeds as well! Didn't there used to be the remains of what looked like old stables on Barrack Road?At it's highest point,where the car showroom is now.I can remember seeing them until the early 90's. I know its poss the wrong thread, but I think there is still a part of some of the barracks standing. Its a cash and carry from memory opposite the Nissan Garage entry.

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Wed 15 Aug, 2007 12:18 pm

Part of the barracks is still standing. It is between the Nissan grage and the Jaguar garage. The old officers mess building was the Doctors emergency night surgery. Not sure quite what the small red brick building over the road was!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 15 Aug, 2007 12:22 pm

Ah yes, didn't realise that was party of it- should have done though, been past it often enough. Wonder if there are any Leodis photos that you can see the doctors surgery on and tie it up?

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Wed 15 Aug, 2007 12:25 pm

FarnleyBloke wrote: simonm wrote: Being a former Gunner / Bombadier myself you are quite right. Leeds has had a decent history with the Royal Artillery. We presently have 269Bty at Carlton Barracks and the road "Barrack road" once housed the Royal Horse Artillery regiment! Trinity Church is the official church of the Royal Artillery in Leeds as well! Simon, i was in the Royal Artillery Cadets at carlton barracks and spent many a rememberance sunday at trinity church, strangely enough when i decided to join up i went for 7 Para RHA! (Didn't last long in there mind) Plenty of Gunners about these parts! (The right sort of gunner obviously, not the red and white shite from down south!) Well well, I was in 7RHA! Based out in Osnabruck (sp). Spent my initial months in RA at Woolwich. Too close for a Leeds fan applied from my training rgmnt of 45 and was sent to take tests for 7RHA. Passed and found my way to Brize for the para sections. Passed with flying (no pun intended) colours and joined the rgmnt in Germany. However, many months later I found myself secconded to 29rgmnt RA in plymouth and sailing South to the south Atlantic... Not a happy camper I can tell you!!

Barwicker · Post by **Barwicker** » Sun 19 Aug, 2007 5:35 pm

Now that this has turned into a thread on Chapeltown Barracks perhaps I can mention that in 1898 my grandfather completed 12 twelve years of service and left the Army at these barracks.At that time the Barracks were home to the 2nd Dragoon Guards....The Queen's Bays, a Cavalry Regiment. Despite being a Londoner my grandfather stayed in Leeds and having spent 12 years with horses joined Leeds City Transport driving first Horse Trams and later Electric ones.

Hotitalian · Post by **Hotitalian** » Mon 20 Aug, 2007 3:58 pm

There is a whole row of houses with reference to the Gunners if you go past teh rugby ground with it to yoiur left all the way to the lights and turn right towards butcher hill

FarnleyBloke · Post by **FarnleyBloke** » Mon 20 Aug, 2007 4:26 pm

Hi HotitalianThat's Queenswood drive, they are the ones we are talking about earlier in the thread.

Otleybard · Post by **Otleybard** » Fri 24 Aug, 2007 3:21 am

I was at Beckett Park School in the 1950s and '60s and well remember 'Gunners' Row'. Think they were allocated after WW2 to former artillery soldiers, quite a few of whom had received terrible injuries.With regard to the NER Cottage Homes in Kirkstall Lane, I think a lot of the pre-grouping companies' individual welfare schemes were continued until well after 1923. Incidentally, the Sayers Close sheltered housing between the cottages and Headingley Station was (is?) run by the Railway Housing Association. My late Mum 'blagged' her way into a lovely bungalow in the 1980s by stressing the fact that her father-in-law, who died in 1918, had been Station Master at Kirkstall.

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Sun 26 Aug, 2007 12:13 am

The Council Social Services offices at the end of Barrack Road affectionately known as the 'Blind School' used to be barracks, you can still see the where the stables were in the courtyard. I don't know which regiment used them.