Doors to Nowhere.

munki · Post by **munki** » Thu 22 Feb, 2007 10:43 am

This is on Hyde Street just off Clarendon Road. Does anyone know where it once led?

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 22 Feb, 2007 10:58 am

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!

Otleybard · Post by **Otleybard** » Thu 22 Feb, 2007 1:55 pm

Could it have been a school or similar? It looks like it could have been the entrance to an 'outdoor' lavatory.

munki · Post by **munki** » Thu 22 Feb, 2007 2:37 pm

Bit grand for a lav, isn't it? Still, the Vicotrians could be funny like that.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Fri 23 Feb, 2007 10:55 am

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?

Otleybard · Post by **Otleybard** » Fri 23 Feb, 2007 1:40 pm

Looking at it again, could it have been the entrance to a private staircase to an upper floor?

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Fri 23 Feb, 2007 4:27 pm

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?

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Fri 23 Feb, 2007 7:32 pm

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"

mourning_belle · Post by **mourning_belle** » Mon 05 Mar, 2007 7:11 am

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.

LittleBigDave · Post by **LittleBigDave** » Sun 11 Mar, 2007 12:53 pm

I'm going to take a stab in the dar and guess that it lead inside the building it was attached to!