Two Structures

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Fri 02 Apr, 2010 3:49 pm

The Parksider wrote: Johnny39 wrote: We, as kids, always understood there were a lot of small arms dumped in Waterloo lake from some war or the other. Anyone know more on this subject? I posted it earlier - a 1930 police amnesty of WWI arms and ammunition, dumped in the deep part of the lake Thanks for that Parksider.

Post by **chameleon** » Fri 02 Apr, 2010 6:51 pm

Johnny39 wrote: We, as kids, always understood there were a lot of small arms dumped in Waterloo lake from some war or the other. Anyone know more on this subject? Read back over the thread

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Fri 02 Apr, 2010 8:40 pm

chameleon wrote: Johnny39 wrote: We, as kids, always understood there were a lot of small arms dumped in Waterloo lake from some war or the other. Anyone know more on this subject? Read back over the thread Don't know how I missed it first time.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Sat 03 Apr, 2010 10:03 am

blackprince wrote: I was told the lake was bottomless too by my parents . Have generations of Leeds children been mislead by this concept of a bottomless lake! If its bottomless why doesn't the water run out I hear my younger self puzzling over. It is 100 feet deep at it's deepest point. The sudden drop to a deeper part is due to there being a quarry in the valley before it was dammed and filled.

Post by **chameleon** » Sat 03 Apr, 2010 11:58 am

Johnny39 wrote: chameleon wrote: Johnny39 wrote: We, as kids, always understood there were a lot of small arms dumped in Waterloo lake from some war or the other. Anyone know more on this subject? Read back over the thread Don't know how I missed it first time. cos there's so much on here mate!

Elmete Rob · Post by **Elmete Rob** » Mon 27 Sep, 2010 10:25 pm

The Parksider wrote: Brunel wrote: Found the Gazebo, Well done! In the grounds of Elmet Hall.Anyone know which toffs lived there???? Yes, me until the age of 12!The House was built by James Kitson, first Lord Mayor of Leeds.

Elmete Rob · Post by **Elmete Rob** » Mon 27 Sep, 2010 10:28 pm

big_rob2004 wrote: This appears to have become a bit off topic in some sense but I love everything about Roundhay Park. I live on Boggart Hill Drive so it's quite litterally a 10 min stroll away. I have recently walked through the Braimwood Grounds (my old High School) and am amazed by how small the actually building was!Anyway I find the actual park is full of mystery and as I am slightly tuned in to the spirit world I always get a feeling of someone watching from the woods at night when on the Eastern side of the Dam. Which brings me neatly on to something I saw with my brother many years ago whilst talking a walk through the Northern Gorge. On the eastern hill we saw a bright glowing object which looked like a gravestone in the trees. Not quite sure what it was as we have never seen it since!I would love to go back to dicks days though and see the lake before it was a lake, the armitage, the keepers house on the north east of the lake, amongst other things in the park. When was it you saw this, we used to set up ghost walks to entertain the residents of Elmete & Hammond hall around Halloween in the area of woodland around the summer house (gazebo as you've been referring to it) We also did the cellars of elmete hall...which really was spooky!

Head Gardener · Post by **Head Gardener** » Thu 16 Jun, 2011 12:29 pm

Hello FolksI'm hoping some of you may be able to throw some light on a bit of research. Elmete Hall had an alpine garden (probably with a fair sized rockery) created for John H. Kitson, who was a mountaineer.The people who built it were Backhouse & Sons of York, who also built the rock garden at the Botanical Gardens where I work. I'm trying to find out as much as I can about other Backhouse gardens to help us in a lottery bid to restore ours.Does anyone know if anything of this garden has survived? I imagine the rocks would have been pretty difficult to shift.CheersKeith.

Elmete Rob · Post by **Elmete Rob** » Thu 16 Jun, 2011 12:51 pm

I have memories of the rock garden , it lay at the side of the house between the hall and the school next door ( roundhay lodge/elmete wood as it became.) I am not sure If much survived after the refurbishment/ conversion. In my time living there it was very over grown, good fun to scramble over the rocks but a little out of the way on the dark, shadowy side of the house so I wasn't really allowed to play there! ( that made it all the more appealing!)

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Thu 16 Jun, 2011 8:12 pm

A contemporary visitor to the gardens describes them in an old Gardeners Chronicle here:http://www.archive.org/stream/gardeners ... upalthough it's mainly about the orchids. It does mention the gardener's name too and a quick google finds him buried at St John's.