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In an 1850s OS map on page 1 of a thread 'The Primrose, Meanwood Road' there is a place called ‘Bog Hall’ just off Meanwood Road close to Buslingthorpe Lane (this is the link to that thread:- http://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Mess ... eadID=4689).I was intrigued about Bog Hall and as there seemed to be no mention on searching SL I looked at the Leodis website and found 3 photos of it (Bog Hall was demolished in the 1950s). I thought those photos may be of interest so these are the links to each:-http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... AY=FULLBog Hall (I like that name ) seems to have had an interesting history. I also like the mention of the nearby sulphur spa well and sulphur springs draining from nearby bogs and wonder if they are still there?        

There was also Spa Buildings, adjacent to the pump and which contained a pub [beer house], the Bay Horse.

I had a quick look at the spot where Bog Hall stood and as far as I can tell there's no sign that it, or the spa/springs, were ever there. It's just a concreted-over bit of Penraevon Industrial Estate.This place is a good example of why I find the area of Buslingthorpe so interesting. There was just such a diversity of stuff in a small area: fine old houses like this and Scott Hall, serious industry in the mills, classic workers' terraces, farming (the biggest rhubarb fields in the country!), the spas, ancient tumbledown cottages, a huge and impressive Victorian church, scabby boozers... the lot basically, all jumbled up together.And it's virtually all gone, only instead of being redeveloped there's virtually nothing that's gone up in it's place. As a result there are tiny scraps of old Buslingthorpe everywhere you look. Fascinating place..

I love it round there,i know that my fathers forebares lived on Woodhouse Carr from 1730 ,there was even a street named after the family,Pickard, that appears in the 1890 OS map on Leeds Tithe Maps.All those existing old buildings in Buslingthorpe are fascinating,i will usually take a detour just to have a look when im close by.