Tunnels from City Station

LS13 · Post by **LS13** » Fri 15 Jun, 2007 9:17 pm

Theres a short video on the BBC Leeds site on the tunnels under the station -again mention is made of them being used to move wild animals up to what is now Creation!http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/ ... &go=Search

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Tue 26 Jun, 2007 7:50 pm

i was always lead to believe,that the tunnels have been there for a hell of a long time,and were used for the movement of livestock to various slaughter houses(fish street is one) so as to avoid traffic cogestion,especially on cloth market days??? any truth in that??

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Tue 26 Jun, 2007 8:24 pm

Absolute nonsense Wiggy!!

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Mon 20 Aug, 2007 11:13 pm

Phill_d wrote: Absolute nonsense Wiggy!! shall consider myself told then,well and truly!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Tue 21 Aug, 2007 12:36 am

wiggy wrote: Phill_d wrote: Absolute nonsense Wiggy!! shall consider myself told then,well and truly! Perhaps another Leeds Urban Myth, but I remember hearing once form a old (and I mean old) guy who was doing security at St Pauls House that the tunnes went from City Sq as a kind of underground railway to deliver post from the old GPO building. I doubt there is any truth in it but heigh ho, another one for the board.

munki · Post by **munki** » Tue 21 Aug, 2007 7:50 am

LS13 wrote: Theres a short video on the BBC Leeds site on the tunnels under the station -again mention is made of them being used to move wild animals up to what is now Creation!http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/ ... &go=Search I have to take responsibility for that one, LS13. I only said it to wind you lot up. Haha! Still, I know plenty of people who worked at the Underground, which was below the T&C, who said you could see the entrance to tunnels going from there. I think the guesswork came from them saying where they went TO...Does anyone know the owner of Creation? We could ask them if they will let us have a look?

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Mon 10 Sep, 2007 1:53 pm

Phill_d wrote: Absolute nonsense Wiggy!! i have spoken to a lot of old folk over the weekend and they tell me it is not nonsense,so i am gonna keep on digging(no pun intended).'i have never seen hawaii,but i don't deny it's existence'........'not everything is on them bloody computers tha knows'.just two of the nuggets of worldly wisdom given to me by my elders and betters.

Hats Off · Post by **Hats Off** » Mon 10 Sep, 2007 10:17 pm

Don't know if this has been posted on here but there is a picture of how the city station undergrond would have looked if completed (or even started) .......

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Wed 19 Sep, 2007 11:27 am

I can't believe no one replied to this message. It is one of the most incredible pictures i've ever seen. Typical of Leeds to plan something (at great expense no doubt) and for it not to happen. Good to see that things never change in this fair city of ours.When anything is actually built it is never done properly, the city station upgrade whilst well done woefully underestimated the traffic it would need to cope with. That LandMark Leeds shopping precinct has been a complete shambles as reported in the Hiney Ho. I can't wear perfectly normal leather soled shoes as I can't walk on many of the main shopping streets.Build a coach station? OK but only a tiny one eh. Concert venue? No mate, let Sheffield and Manchester have that money.Trams? Not econimically viable. It was in Nottingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Croydon, etc....but not in Leeds.Here have some new bendy buses and shut up.So it seems we could have had a nice underground station but nah, it's Leeds, it was never going to happen.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Wed 19 Sep, 2007 11:30 am

Reginal Perrin wrote: I can't believe no one replied to this message. It is one of the most incredible pictures i've ever seen. Typical of Leeds to plan something (at great expense no doubt) and for it not to happen. Good to see that things never change in this fair city of ours.When anything is actually built it is never done properly, the city station upgrade whilst well done woefully underestimated the traffic it would need to cope with. That LandMark Leeds shopping precinct has been a complete shambles as reported in the Hiney Ho. I can't wear perfectly normal leather soled shoes as I can't walk on many of the main shopping streets.Build a coach station? OK but only a tiny one eh. Concert venue? No mate, let Sheffield and Manchester have that money.Trams? Not econimically viable. It was in Nottingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Croydon, etc....but not in Leeds.Here have some new bendy buses and shut up.So it seems we could have had a nice underground station but nah, it's Leeds, it was never going to happen. i agree with your comments on a concert venue and a lot more.as for the picture i think it looks like a scene from the classic flik 'UTOPIA'.alas t'was but another loiners pipe dream.