Breakwater Passage

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Fri 19 Feb, 2010 2:23 am

Sorry-meant to ask earlier, if anyone can post anold map compared to a recent one - overlay? just topinpoint where the location might be.

liits · Post by **liits** » Fri 19 Feb, 2010 11:09 pm

dogduke wrote: Sorry-meant to ask earlier, if anyone can post anold map compared to a recent one - overlay? just topinpoint where the location might be. When I'm sober, [sometime Saturday] I'll post you an overlay of the 1908 map on ggoogle earth if it helps,

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Sat 20 Feb, 2010 1:07 am

[quotenick="liits"] dogduke wrote: Sorry-meant to ask earlier, if anyone can post anold map compared to a recent one - overlay? just topinpoint where the location might be. When I'm sober, [sometime Saturday] I'll post you an overlay of the 1908 map on ggoogle earth if it helps, [/quoteI'll ave what you are drinking !!!!!!!!!!!!!

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 20 Feb, 2010 8:59 am

dogduke wrote: Thank you to everyone who responded.I have to be honest after having lived around the perimeter of the area for most of my life I have never heard of Breakwater Passage.To hear it as a focal point for local traffic news isamazing.If the combined efforts of Secret Leeds contributorshave to resort in the main to history how is this a viablefocal point when you are stuck in traffic on 'THE A61'in 2010 ?Known locally - I don't think so. Listening to the travel news on Radio Leeds (see other thread!), you need to develop a sixth sense to figure out when many of the hold ups are.They frequently refer to congestion on the 'Ingram Distributor at Elland' (methinks they mean where it meets Elland Road, also known as Junction 2 of the M621), or the 'M62 at Newmarket' - which is the exit for Rothwell and Oulton.

liits · Post by **liits** » Sat 20 Feb, 2010 5:18 pm

Benson Street with the Eagle at the junction of North Street and the long gone Breakwater Hotel.

electricaldave · Post by **electricaldave** » Sat 20 Feb, 2010 10:08 pm

The thing that comes across in these overlays is how buildings are very much more temporary than roads.I seems to take much more effort to change a road than it does even to demolish a building, and even the individaul plots seem to last longer than the buildings upon them.I know this area, especially around the junction did undergo uge changes, but its still surprising when you imagine how it used to be that so much of the original layout remains.

Post by **chameleon** » Sat 20 Feb, 2010 10:23 pm

wonder if the proximity to Meanwood/Carr/Gipton Becks junction is significant?

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Mon 22 Feb, 2010 1:49 pm

This is also pre-sheepscar street south, which was build about 1929 I think.

iansmithofotley · Post by **iansmithofotley** » Mon 22 Feb, 2010 4:28 pm

Hi everyone,I was brought up in Woodhouse, in the 50's and 60's, and all of the local people referred to the junction of North Street/Sheepscar Street/Meanwood Road/etc., as the 'Golden Cross Junction' because of the name of the Golden Cross pub which stood there. Similarly, the junction of Meanwood Road and Buslingthorpe Lane was always called the 'Primrose Junction' because of the Primrose pub.Ian

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Tue 23 Feb, 2010 1:00 pm

and its still the Woodpecker junction at the bottom of York Road long after the pub has gone.