Down near the river....

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Wed 26 Dec, 2007 6:30 pm

I walked passed the putty works this afternoon and took some pictures.As someone remarked,it's not a very pleasant place.

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Wed 26 Dec, 2007 6:35 pm

I was originally looking for evidence of Newley station but since I was in the area...

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Wed 26 Dec, 2007 7:02 pm

did you not see the air raid shelters when you were down there?

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Thu 27 Dec, 2007 8:03 pm

Phill_d wrote: did you not see the air raid shelters when you were down there? The brick building on the left had the remains of a doorway at one end but it's a bit close to the main building.

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Thu 27 Dec, 2007 8:05 pm

stevief wrote: Phill_d wrote: did you not see the air raid shelters when you were down there? The brick building on the left had the remains of a doorway at one end but it's a bit close to the main building.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Fri 28 Dec, 2007 1:42 am

No it's not the brickwork Ste.. Check this thread out herehttp://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=22537I posted some of the little secret places down there not long ago! I suppose you would have missed them if you didn't know they were there... they were right under your nose mate

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Fri 28 Dec, 2007 10:37 pm

I checked the godfrey 1908 map against the triangle marked on the first post.It's parcel of land 1693!!!!So did the putty works get built after 1908 then coz nowt is on the 1908 map?

Bramley4woods · Post by **Bramley4woods** » Sat 29 Dec, 2007 3:34 am

Mention of a quarry in Bramley fall Woods takes me back to Ca. 1959 when a gang of us from the Sandford Estate were playing in the Park.Noticing a foul smell, and being attracted to it as young lads are, we followed our noses through the park and the woods to find a small quarry, or at any rate a fair sized hole in the ground which was full of rotting dead horse carcasses. We got frightened then, as young lads do, and ran away.Anybody any idea what was going on there, surely nobody was fly tipping dead horses in those days. Vehicular access was very limited. Surely the Knacker's Man would have given something for the horse carcasses if only for the glue works, and how come the "Parkie" hadn't homed in on it and done something about it? It must have been a public health nuisance.BTW. I don't know if was "The Actual Quarry" or just a hole.

BarFly · Post by **BarFly** » Sun 08 Jul, 2012 10:07 pm

I was down at this site the other day and it's still in similar condition to it was when the thread was started. Some of the puttyworks may have gone but I'll check in the next few days when I go down with a camera.The strange "silo" looking things on legs are still there and one air raid shelter at least would be accesible though a bit of a crawl. There's also something water related with a small stone hut and an open manhole which seems to lead down into a culvert which a person could probably just about squeeze into.I'm planning on heading back in the next week or so weather permitting and taking my camera along to get a few pictures.

dervish99 · Post by **dervish99** » Thu 19 Jul, 2012 1:17 pm

Some images taken earlier in the year here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/dervish99/ ... 974776/The air raid shelters appeared to be full of water, I think there were 4 of them.