A very old Establishment down the Skulls head yard (Part 1)

[drapesy]

Interesting shot on flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/22179048@N05/5030 ... pool-leeds

[Phill_dvsn]

drapesy wrote: Interesting shot on flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/22179048@N05/5030 ... pool-leeds That's a cracking shot Drapsey.It gives us a view of the skulls building we've never had before.I think it's worth including here as it might help us in future.Picture is copyright Bobpet from his flickr website herehttp://snipurl.com/16ulqa        I'm just wondering if those skulls were anyway related to the outbreaks of Cholera??    

[agesofelegance]

sorry chaps I keep forgetting to charge my camera battery to take some picsthey brought out some big carved sandstone arch stones on thursday, but we had to look at them at an angle round the JCB and from other side of the gate so couldn't see much and some big beams lying around the car parkwork stopped for a bit for a bottle they found as well, so there may be finds once top debris is cleared. work men etc v non committal though to talk about ita couple more articles re the work http://www.leedsguide.co.uk/review/news ... hall/16395 same one as in YEP I thinknothing on giffords website as yet though

[agesofelegance]

this is the website for Ian tod from what i can find but it appears to be down atm http://www.allentod.co.uk/

[Phill_dvsn]

I wish i could work out that stables building. It's such a hotch potch of patch work brick.Looking at this view, i'm just wondering how keen they are to have those ramshackle buildings next to a brand new development????    

[Leodian]

There are some interesting face-like objects to the top of the photo. They also look a bit skull-like!

[Si]

Leodian wrote: There are some interesting face-like objects to the top of the photo. They also look a bit skull-like! I think they are lions which run around the top of the Corn Exchange. The crack below the window in the skull building appears to have got bigger. I wonder if it's caused by the big white box-thing (air conditioner?) that's been added?

[Si]

Phill_dvsn wrote: I wish i could work out that stables building. It's such a hotch potch of patch work brick.     Hi Phill. I think the oldest parts of the wall are those I've outlined in red, as previously discussed on here. The newer bits look like they've been added at different stages. Notice there's no white box thingy. That crack (arrowed blue) definately looks bigger now.

[Neibelungen]

Thought you might find this interesting. It's from the Gill Demolition people website.http://www.gilldemolitions.co.uk/demoli ... lAccording to them the recoverable elements of the Hall as going into storage. Probably a skip hidden somewhere !!!There's some interesting stonework pulled out. Mostly lareger sandstone door framing fron the right-hand entrance arch. Pretty big pieces and archway keystones fron some of the windows. I've been watching it from the back the last couple of weeks and you can really see that only the scaffolding was holding the building up. If you look at the top right wall of the remaining section (amusement arcade) you can see the wall has split and almost collapsed. The foundations below (now exposed with the fottings cleared from the front) don't look a whole lot better either, so they might have a major job saving that section, if at all. Now the front scaffolding and screens are down you can see the early victorian patching and rebuilding from the rear building to the original structure.

[jim]

Now here's a turn-up for the books........ I had reason to walk down Kirkgate today and expected to see nothing of the 1711 White Cloth Hall except rubble . Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, the building to the Hall's right has gone. It seems to have been the main cause of the problems and had no special significance. Yes,the later "infill" building that was created in the front courtyard, depriving us all of a view of the lovely arch-arcaded yard - possibly for up to two hundred years! - has gone. I shan't miss it.Unfortunately the right hand wing of the Cloth Hall has been demolished. It must have been "between a rock and a hard place" with those later additions. ( EDIT 20.42. Perhaps that should be "between a crack and a crumbly place".)What remains is about SEVENTY PER-CENT of what survived of the original building. It has, of course, undergone modification during its three hundred years, but comparing it with Peter Brears artistic reconstruction picture it is readily recognisable. Eight of the thirteen arches are still obvious, and work on stabilisation seems to be going on.I remain hopeful that what can be preserved is going to be, and we may have jumped the gun a little by believing it lost.