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

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 12:06 am

simonm wrote: Walked past this place yesterday and had good old look at the cloth hall. If the council don't do summat pretty soon, it'll fall down on it's own, looking at the state of the structure.What a bloody shame that such an important piece of Leeds herritage is to be lost. do the math simon.....thats mighty fine building land and the council aint got our ethics=4...or am i just been my usual pesemistic self?? i know what i think!

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 7:24 pm

wiggy wrote: simonm wrote: Walked past this place yesterday and had good old look at the cloth hall. If the council don't do summat pretty soon, it'll fall down on it's own, looking at the state of the structure.What a bloody shame that such an important piece of Leeds herritage is to be lost. do the math simon.....thats mighty fine building land and the council aint got our ethics=4...or am i just been my usual pesemistic self?? i know what i think! Seems we had the sames maths teacher!!

Forgetful Cat · Post by **Forgetful Cat** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 8:06 pm

Phill_d wrote: Forgetful Cat wrote: Back on topic...."In the book Haunted Leeds it has a picture of the skulls and says there were past the gate & had been removed years ago, seemingly no one knows what happened to them."They are at the rear of a very undistinguished seventies looking office block next to National Tyres at the Scott Hall end of Buslingthorpe Lane.Leeds Surrealist Group published a pamphlet of writings based on them in 2006. Really? have you any pictures of them? I'd love to see. I can't for a minute think why they would be placed a mile away to mark an event a 100 years earlier on a 1970's building. very puzzling. Or have they been replaced there perhaps? I'd happily post a couple of pics from the surrealist pamphlet, but the 'add attachment' button does SFA.

Forgetful Cat · Post by **Forgetful Cat** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 8:09 pm

Phill_d wrote: Forgetful Cat wrote: Back on topic...."In the book Haunted Leeds it has a picture of the skulls and says there were past the gate & had been removed years ago, seemingly no one knows what happened to them."They are at the rear of a very undistinguished seventies looking office block next to National Tyres at the Scott Hall end of Buslingthorpe Lane.Leeds Surrealist Group published a pamphlet of writings based on them in 2006. Really? have you any pictures of them? I'd love to see. I can't for a minute think why they would be placed a mile away to mark an event a 100 years earlier on a 1970's building. very puzzling. Or have they been replaced there perhaps? Couple of images from the surrealist pamphlet.BTW the upload function here is user hostile!!

Forgetful Cat · Post by **Forgetful Cat** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 8:09 pm

no 2 - Oh b*ggr!

Forgetful Cat · Post by **Forgetful Cat** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 8:10 pm

no 2

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 8:15 pm

And here they are today - to say I was flabberghasted would be an understatement!!! I thought they were gone forever!

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 8:22 pm

And this is their location. Forgetful cats second pic shows them in their original location - the yard near the Corn Exchange.I saw them when they were there and have also seen the bricked up place where they were (I think now down an alley that can't be accessed.) - however this means that the reason for their relocation cant be that the original site was going to be demolished !So why in the name of Cuthbert Broderick were they moved??? and why here???????By the way - many thanks to Forgetful cat for this info and the original pic!!

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 8:24 pm

I still cant believe it!

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 8:48 pm

Wow that's amazing. What are they doing here? I can't believe it either. Thanks for that forgetful cat. Can you see these from the roadside Drapsey or do you need to go round the back??