Millgarth Police Station 2nd Floor Front Office?

[Cardiarms]

OK I'll hold judgement but it the route is limited. It will have to go under the Queens Hotel and along Boar lane or straight up Park Row and right before or after Mill Hill Church. As there was a walkway with footings after Mill Hill it would most likely turn before and pass between Mill Hill and the Park Plaza. If it avoids the Queens hotel and goes direct to the station, under Bishopgate it will have to be very deep or on a significant slope. And there's still the issue of a 150 year old 15 inch Cat iron main that hasn't been moved. Not the sort of thing you dig under or over without due regard!Perhaps there is a stairwell in the Bond Street that goes down to the propsed level and through their basement but no further?

[simonm]

I used to work in the Traffic management office of West yorkshire police at Belle vue rd. The plan for the 2nd floor entrance was that Leeds was supposed to have an elevated walkway around the city centre. Part of it was in evidence until recently at Bond st shopping centre at the side, next to Mill Hill chapel. It ran from the entrance door there, across a bridge, over Park lane and around the building that has recentley had a face lift and you went down some stairs at the side to the post office, well over the road.

[Phill_dvsn]

I remember the bridge all too well.I just can't remember it gong though. How come we never see these things until they've gone?

[Phill_dvsn]

Well it deffo needs more looking at Cardiarms.This subway may just have been constructed at one end when the foundations went in? Maybe like a provision for a developement of the train station area at a later date. I recall plans for modernising/and or locating the bus station around there for many years.It's most interesting though.        

[Cardiarms]

That bridge and the Norwich Union building were really reall ugly.Anyway - here's meanwood/lady beck going under Milgarth:

[Phill_dvsn]

Great map there.I've seen pictures of the beck dug up and uncovered on the pavement outside the Tom o Shanter pub on Leodis.When your down there, the older tunnel from Mabgate soon gives way to a newer concrete section underneath the York road flyover. The new section continues past Millgarth (I guess this was constructed when the cop shop was built) and then it reverts to the older tunnel system under the bus station.A picture of how it looks under the Millgarth Police station tunnel is here.http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn ... 301066200/    Claustrophobes don't look     

[Cardiarms]

Does the Bank of England building have a stretch of defunct 'skywalk' on its frontage?

[Tasa]

Not to do with Millgarth Station, but the overhead walkway: I used to use this walkway to get from the Co-op to Infirmary Street. It started between the back of the Co-op and the side of C&A (later Wilkinson's and Next Clearance), in the arcade which has just been demolished. The walkway came out near the bottom of Albion Street, went down the side of the building and across the bridge to the Bond Street Centre. From there, a connecting walkway crossed Park Row and went along the front of the office buildings, to come out at the Infirmary Street bus stops.

[simonm]

Cardiarms wrote: Does the Bank of England building have a stretch of defunct 'skywalk' on its frontage? Nah, that building is just odd. The walkway carried on past the norwich building and around up along Infirmary St. Now, for the life of me I can't remember wether it ended there or carried up along East Parade for a short while??

[simonm]

Bugger, just realised Tasa beat me to it..