SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

Each time I try to reply (by telling you about a great Flax production site in Horsforth) my replly seems to get blocked - sorry...

I've twice written out a reply to you and sadly it's not allowed me to post it making me log in again.

Not sure you will even get this, if you do all I can say is I will try again tommorrow.

chemimike wrote: ↑

Wed 06 May, 2020 11:28 pm

One general source (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cCO ... od&f=false ) states that the term is used in many areas and is shown below

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Thanks chemimike for that interesting information . I had an expectation that Hell Hole might have been where something nasty had once happened!

The Parksider wrote: ↑

Thu 07 May, 2020 12:44 am

Each time I try to reply (by telling you about a great Flax production site in Horsforth) my replly seems to get blocked - sorry...

Hi Parksider .
Thanks for your efforts in trying to post which I hope you do succeed in doing so as your mention "about a great Flax production site in Horsforth" will be of interest in that old maps show there was a flax mill where Nanny Beck met Adel Beck where a Mill Cottage once stood (now about where Verity's cafe was and the Babbling/Slabbering Baby Spring still is in Alwoodley).
As an aside a few years back I kept trying to post on a website but kept getting it rejected. I kept changing words and it was finally accepted when I dropped 'scrapbook' and I then realised that the overzealous foul language control had not liked part of 'scrapbook'!

These are 2 photos that I took on July 17 2020 showing Adel Beck where it comes out after its conduit runs under the Seven Arches Aqueduct. There are 3 rectangular features on this side and the central one has eroded wording stating (in 3 lines) "Leeds Corporation Water Works 1866".