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Phill_dvsn wrote: I can't really get what this substation is all abouthttp://snipurl.com/und5dIt's not really like any others, it has offices upstairs, and seems to be part of the joining building. Any ideas?     The overall style is similar to the Park Square one but strange it's part stone, part brick - I suppose the upper bit could have been added later and the larger building me have arrived later need to trawl Leodis!

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It's the fact it has two doors in such a small building. It looks like one is still used. It's a square design (different to the original arch). The stone arch one is now bricked up. I'm thinking that went down to lower depths via stairs at street level. Also notice the strange fall pipe set up in the stonework.It's unusual because the lower part of the substation, and the top brick part both have those strenghtening tie bars you usually see on more substantial structures. i.e railway viaducts and bridges. It does seem a small building to have problems with it's walls been pushed out, or deemed not strong enough??                
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Looking from this side of the buildinghttp://snipurl.com/unmn9It has double doors there. It's a rather untidy end isn't it? It just seems to be plonked on the end. It doesn't really match in with anything.I wonder if it was part of a bigger building that's been flattened? They knocked it down, the whole thing became very weak, hence the strenghtening tie bars!    
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Phill_dvsn wrote: Looking from this side of the buildinghttp://snipurl.com/unmn9It has double doors there. It's a rather untidy end isn't it? It just seems to be plonked on the end. It doesn't really match in with anything.I wonder if it was part of a bigger building that's been flattened? They knocked it down, the whole thing became very weak, hence the strenghtening tie bars!     I was wondering the same thing and started looking for 'before' pics, it certainly does have the hall-marks of having had a bit cut off the end and those side doors are not original. even a modest capacity transformer is quite a sizable bit of plant - the new doors would probably have been needed for any upgrade.

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Map from Leodis, 1946, shows a long slender structure across what is now an access road.
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Mmmm,I'm just wondering, that building it's part of (or joined on to) It was the railway hotel wasn't it?    Does it look more of a railway structure do you think? It can't have been far from Central station buildings. Those strenghtening tie bars are certainly what they use on the railways.    
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An interesting archive aerial image of the area herehttp://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIde ... SPLAY=FULL
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Phill_dvsn wrote: Mmmm,I'm just wondering, that building it's part of (or joined on to) It was the railway hotel wasn't it?    Does it look more of a railway structure do you think? It can't have been far from Central station buildings. Those strenghtening tie bars are certainly what they use on the railways.     It's the \great Northern hotel as you see. What do you make of this from 1847-1867 map? I can send you a bigger one if needed.
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To be honest i'm finding that map a bit hard to digest. It doesn't somehow fit in with what we should see. Is Central station bigger, or was it further towards the river than later days? It does seem to take up a lot of land there.I take it the road, and bridge under the station is Northern street we have today? Also what is he Leeds and Whitehall trust?On this aerial image http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... AY=FULLyou can see the Power station almost butts up to the station, and hotel. Infact i'm fiding it hard to see if Aire street/Whitehall road ran between them then.        
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Phill_dvsn wrote: To be honest i'm finding that map a bit hard to digest. It doesn't somehow fit in with what we should see. Is Central station bigger, or was it further towards the river than later days? It does seem to take up a lot of land there.I take it the road, and bridge under the station is Northern street we have today? Also what is he Leeds and Whitehall trust?On this aerial image http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... AY=FULLyou can see the Power station almost butts up to the station, and hotel. Infact i'm fiding it hard to see if Aire street/Whitehall road ran between them then.         Check mail.Yes Northern street is 'as was' and the underpass is now an access to the side of the hotel. I think the perspective is off-putting in the aerial view, the Trust is Whitehall Road eith the power station very much on the southern side.    

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