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Can anyone please settle an argument. The housing estate built between Churchwood Avenue and Ancaster Road off the A660 Otley Road was previously?

I think it was the water treatment works, sewerage beds.

book wrote: I think it was the water treatment works, sewerage beds. That's what I say and as I go/have gone to the Leeds Met's Headingley campus on a regular basis for most of the last 30 years you would think my wife would take my word for it. However she insists there was a school there    

It was definitely the filter beds (the other part of the waterworks survives on the other side of Otley Road).There is a nursery school a bit further south from the site, between Drummond Road and Drummond Avenue, but it looks like a traditional school building, built in brick, so maybe this is what your wife is thinking of. Alternatively, there is Lawnswood School further north, which is on a similar-sized site to the "filter beds" housing estate.

I think there was a primary school on the corner of Ancaster Road but the main site with the newish houses on was the water treatment works. There was also a water treatment works on the other side of the road where the village health club is now sited. Sorry I was writing at the same time as you. There was a stone building at the top end of the water treatment site, probably the workers store for equipment

Tasa wrote: It was definitely the filter beds (the other part of the waterworks survives on the other side of Otley Road).There is a nursery school a bit further south from the site, between Drummond Road and Drummond Avenue, but it looks like a traditional school building, built in brick, so maybe this is what your wife is thinking of. Alternatively, there is Lawnswood School further north, which is on a similar-sized site to the "filter beds" housing estate. Thanks Tasa we drove past Lawnswood this afternoon and I pointed out that she was probably thinking of that because of the railings. It also looked more like school in the old stone build rather than the futuristic (IMHO) appearance now

Aerial pic from Leodis shows the filter beds in situ:http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

Geordie-exile wrote: Aerial pic from Leodis shows the filter beds in situ:http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL Thanks Geordie. I thought I'd exhausted searches on Leodis. Hadn't tried Filterbeds and certainly not Weetwood. Not my particular area of Leeds but Headingley and then West Park would have preceded Weetwood in my naming of the area

And, faced with the irrefutable evidence, has Mrs Tyke bhoy capitulated? I think it's worth a cuppa, chocolate biscuit and some humble pie at the very least.

tyke bhoy wrote: book wrote: I think it was the water treatment works, sewerage beds. That's what I say and as I go/have gone to the Leeds Met's Headingley campus on a regular basis for most of the last 30 years you would think my wife would take my word for it. However she insists there was a school there     You are correct as my stepdad had to patrol it during the war.