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Posted: Fri 04 Sep, 2009 12:17 am
by BIG N
Not 100% sure this is the right place for this but here goes -A thought struck me today while I was sat in Leeds bus station looking at the Playhouse and Quarry house beyond it.I know the area is called Quarry Hill and that the old flats there were called Quarry Hill flats so Quarry house continues to keep an old name alive, but -Was there actually a Quarry in this location in years gone by and if so, what were they quarrying and for what purpose ???
Posted: Fri 04 Sep, 2009 10:07 am
by liits
I'm not sure how well this will show up but here is a screen capture from Google Earth of part of the 1906 map of the area overlayed on the current view. (edit. click on picture for larger image).
Posted: Fri 04 Sep, 2009 4:31 pm
by Brandy
On the 1884 map the area is shown as Quarry hill.
Posted: Fri 04 Sep, 2009 5:32 pm
by uncle mick
Not a lot of help, but it was known as Quarry Hill in the 1841 Census
Posted: Fri 04 Sep, 2009 6:39 pm
by liits
I'll post the same picture without the Google Earth background. It's not the best scan in the world but with a bit of luck, it is possible to see that the piece of what is now York Road running beside St Pat's was called Quarry Hill.
Posted: Fri 04 Sep, 2009 9:14 pm
by cnosni
Well i always wondered where the quarry could have been.Ralph Thoresby,in Ducatus, gives a description of the area as having the appearance of some ancient fortications.I think LS1 has a cd rom of Ducatus,perhaps he can dig out an actual description.Illustrated history of Leeds has a modern day redrawing of a 1560 plan of Leeds,the earliest known.It shows Quarry Hill and houses on mabgate.What interests me is that in the early Parish registers for Leeds there are numerous,successive references to "Quarrel" Hill.I wonder??
Posted: Fri 04 Sep, 2009 9:39 pm
by liits
There was a smashing book published some years ago, "Momento Mori" which was dedicated to Quarry Hill Flats.
Posted: Sat 05 Sep, 2009 1:07 am
by LS1
cnosni wrote: Well i always wondered where the quarry could have been.Ralph Thoresby,in Ducatus, gives a description of the area as having the appearance of some ancient fortications.I think LS1 has a cd rom of Ducatus,perhaps he can dig out an actual description.Illustrated history of Leeds has a modern day redrawing of a 1560 plan of Leeds,the earliest known.It shows Quarry Hill and houses on mabgate.What interests me is that in the early Parish registers for Leeds there are numerous,successive references to "Quarrel" Hill.I wonder?? I'll look for it and dig it out and post it....
Posted: Sat 05 Sep, 2009 9:03 am
by chameleon
LS1 wrote: cnosni wrote: Well i always wondered where the quarry could have been.Ralph Thoresby,in Ducatus, gives a description of the area as having the appearance of some ancient fortications.I think LS1 has a cd rom of Ducatus,perhaps he can dig out an actual description.Illustrated history of Leeds has a modern day redrawing of a 1560 plan of Leeds,the earliest known.It shows Quarry Hill and houses on mabgate.What interests me is that in the early Parish registers for Leeds there are numerous,successive references to "Quarrel" Hill.I wonder?? I'll look for it and dig it out and post it.... The Quarry?
Posted: Sat 05 Sep, 2009 5:18 pm
by cnosni
chameleon wrote: LS1 wrote: cnosni wrote: Well i always wondered where the quarry could have been.Ralph Thoresby,in Ducatus, gives a description of the area as having the appearance of some ancient fortications.I think LS1 has a cd rom of Ducatus,perhaps he can dig out an actual description.Illustrated history of Leeds has a modern day redrawing of a 1560 plan of Leeds,the earliest known.It shows Quarry Hill and houses on mabgate.What interests me is that in the early Parish registers for Leeds there are numerous,successive references to "Quarrel" Hill.I wonder?? I'll look for it and dig it out and post it.... The Quarry? Tut tut tut