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Phill_d
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mmm. Not sure about this one Munki, But i do know the reason why many windows in big older old houses have had there windows bricked up for no apparent reason & thats because in years gone by there was a 'window tax' & the more windows you had the more you payed. Don't know why myself!
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Otleybard
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Could it have been a school or similar? It looks like it could have been the entrance to an 'outdoor' lavatory.
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munki
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Bit grand for a lav, isn't it? Still, the Vicotrians could be funny like that.
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Phill_d
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If it's on Clarendon road i bet the university own the houses & they probably have knocked the 2 together & done away with one doorway. I worked on some uni houses before & they had done that. A possibility?
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Otleybard
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Looking at it again, could it have been the entrance to a private staircase to an upper floor?
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There is a metal door a bit like one you would see on a submarine ont he underpass under the A64 on the road parallel to Regent Street near the Chijnese buffet place. Anyone know anything about this?
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The door on Bridge Street like a submarine door is an entrance to a service tunnel which runs from Bridge Street to Woodpecker Junction where it terminates at a man hole it carries cables and services, gas water etc, see comments in "secret tunnels under Leeds"
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mourning_belle
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| munki wrote: |
| This is on Hyde Street just off Clarendon Road. Does anyone know where it once led? |
the houses around the university campus were built in rows by lots of different builders rather than planned along with the growing university, due to the history of the land on which it is built. When the houses on this row were built they expected the house owners to use the other side as the main entrance and the clarendon road side as the entrance for maids and such like. If you look at the house in question and go round to the other side you will see the proper intended front entrance and probably a newer front entrance along clarendon road, with any smaller doors leading to maids quarters being blocked up or removed.
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I'm going to take a stab in the dar and guess that it lead inside the building it was attached to!
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At a guess I'd say that was some sort of "coal hole", so the coal merchant could deliver coal straight to the bunker without disturbing the occupants of the house.
From that pic it seems that the bunker is long gone though.
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tasha
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I see this (picture above) every day on my way into uni - always feel i should take a camera along and photograph it!
I reckon that maybe it used to be the entrance to a pub or something similar. I'm sure i've seen busts of Victoria and Albert somewhere along the same row of shop fronts that might have been part of the same building at some point.
Does anyone know what it used to be? It's on Raglan Road, heading down from the uni engineering buildings in the direction of Woodhouse.
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sarge
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with regard to the first photo, of the blocked-off door on Hyde Street - it now features white paint, a painted-on door handle and letterbox, and the number 101 in ornate lettering...always makes me giggle!
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| LittleBigDave wrote: |
| I'm going to take a stab in the dar and guess that it lead inside the building it was attached to! |
hahahahaha, beat me to it..
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| munki wrote: |
| This is on Hyde Street just off Clarendon Road. Does anyone know where it once led? |
Looks like the now sach windows to the left were a much grander opening almost like a hall was once there, therefore making the door way possibly a entrance to a stage or the like, just a thought!
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And the picture of the second door shows what I am pretty certain would be a door leading to a coal bunker.The coalman would open it and tip the sacks into the bunker which would be behind it.We have a similiar blocked off door in our outhouses built in the 1840's and which originally worked as I described.
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I think your correct Steve as there is almost the same grate in a wall off Kepler Terrace Harehills, which goes through the wall of Primrose Hill School. When I was a kid we eventually opend it and it was our quick get away from the not so happy caretaker when we were playing in his grounds Ha!
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| wsmith wrote: |
Weird little door through a garden wall. I wonder what it might have been for? |
Is this one on Shaw Lane at Meanwood?
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