All aboard for Dark Arches weir exploration

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Wed 22 Jun, 2011 10:26 am

Fish? There will be a few who no doubt will want to take up fishing.http://tinyurl.com/5uopyjp

Post by **cnosni** » Wed 22 Jun, 2011 1:10 pm

Its not so much taht its a weir but the remnants of the man made medieaval dam built and maintained to divert part of the Aire to power Kings Mill.Anyway i have seen Salmon in the Aire on the other side of the weir.Still in the tin,still in the trolley.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 22 Jun, 2011 1:22 pm

In the report it states "Fisheries officers will climb aboard to venture down an unexplored stretch of the River Aire for the very first time". I wonder if it is true that it is unexplored?. If it is possible to do a through trip from start to end I would love to do it to see what is there close up. Even a shorter trip if a full through trip is not possible would still be exciting. Any sort of trip along the river under the station could be a great tourist attraction.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 22 Jun, 2011 6:40 pm

buffaloskinner wrote: Fish? There will be a few who no doubt will want to take up fishing.http://tinyurl.com/5uopyjp That report on page 12 of today's YEP also contains an interesting photo of a water channel under the station.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Wed 22 Jun, 2011 9:50 pm

“We’ve never been under the Dark Arches before, so we’re excited to get a glimpse of the engineering feat that is the underbelly of Leeds Train Station.”Hmmmm....Sean Blowers (formerly of London's Burning) was filmed walking in not quite knee high water under there in an episode of A Touch Of Frost a few years ago. In that case it seems odd that this site is as unexplored as the rain forests of Borneo...

Post by **chameleon** » Wed 22 Jun, 2011 9:58 pm

Of course, they could always look on here, not least at one of Munki's originating threads -http://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Thre ... ForumID=40

billy the buffalo · Post by **billy the buffalo** » Tue 28 Jun, 2011 12:51 pm

Hopefully will get some photos later this week of the remains of where there was a waterwheel,The stone settings are still there and also a underground room the size of a football pitch! with doors leading off. Very interesting apparantly ...cant say too much at the minute but will hopefully get the pictures posted ....but the clue is it fits in very well with this thread.

simong · Post by **simong** » Tue 28 Jun, 2011 2:08 pm

The underground room the size of a football pitch sounds similar to the one at the end of Granary Wharf that hosted a few gigs a few years ago. They were bonded warehouses, I believe (probably from a thread on here).