The Rhubarb Triangle - where is it?

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Thu 17 Jan, 2008 1:50 pm

wiggy wrote: city lights is my favorite,an exellent read for people like us,who love all things old leeds,mentioning leggards,schofields and dozens of other old firms.plus its not a novel,its a biography....i must try life after city lights next.. i enjoyed that but didn't like it when he said he preferred manchester and Birmingham as cities. Turncoat.There is a happy land is a great book though.

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Thu 17 Jan, 2008 1:54 pm

Don't get me wrong, i'm in full support of the fight to get our local Rhubard some protection and status but if it is grown in sheds why is it key that it is grown in and around Carlton etc?

Post by **cnosni** » Thu 17 Jan, 2008 3:36 pm

munki wrote: 'Forced Rhubarb' sounds a bit brutal. Maybe we should have a campaign to prevent this kind of thing going on? The Society for the Promotion of Unforced Rhubarb, or SPUR? Yes Munki,but please dont add the word "manufacturers" at the end of the societys title,the abbreviation,when spoken,could be quite embarassing

Barwicker · Post by **Barwicker** » Thu 17 Jan, 2008 5:45 pm

In the Leeds Telephone Directory for 1899/1900 (a fairly thin Book) there are listings for Chas Bettison,first as Fruit & Veg Salesman, Kirkgate Market then as Rhubarb Grower, Rhubarb Gardens, Stourton and also as Rhubarb Grower, Hunslet Lake.There were certainly Rhubarb Fields at the ends of the terraced rows of houses called the Idas off Pontefract Road, Stourton and also where the Stourton Marshalling Yard was going to be built which later became the end of the M1(until the urban extension was tacked on, later M621) My father who lived at Thwaite Gate, was friendly with a man called Selwyn Wade who was a Rhubard Grower in the area

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Thu 17 Jan, 2008 9:25 pm

Reginal Perrin wrote: Don't get me wrong, i'm in full support of the fight to get our local Rhubard some protection and status but if it is grown in sheds why is it key that it is grown in and around Carlton etc? I don't think that it is key to be grown in sheds in Carlton - but it has to be grown outside first and the climate in this area is ideal for rhubarb.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Thu 17 Jan, 2008 9:25 pm

Reginal Perrin wrote: Don't get me wrong, i'm in full support of the fight to get our local Rhubard some protection and status but if it is grown in sheds why is it key that it is grown in and around Carlton etc? I don't think that it is key to be grown in sheds in Carlton - but it has to be grown outside first and the climate in this area is ideal for rhubarb.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Thu 17 Jan, 2008 10:10 pm

Reginal Perrin wrote: wiggy wrote: city lights is my favorite,an exellent read for people like us,who love all things old leeds,mentioning leggards,schofields and dozens of other old firms.plus its not a novel,its a biography....i must try life after city lights next.. i enjoyed that but didn't like it when he said he preferred manchester and Birmingham as cities. Turncoat.There is a happy land is a great book though. true,true,but our beloved leeds wasn't always the gem it is today...i speak of the late 60s early 70s of coarse,when lovely buildings were ripped down,to be replaced with monstrosoties,designed by blindfolded architects...but then birmingham was world leader in that!

Post by **cnosni** » Fri 18 Jan, 2008 1:40 am

Reggie Perrin are you going to come to the party???

Post by **chameleon** » Wed 20 Feb, 2008 6:12 pm

Rhubarb from the Rhubarb Triangle is apparantly being featured on ITV's Calendar tonight.

David Raven · Post by **David Raven** » Wed 20 Feb, 2008 6:35 pm

Trojan wrote: rikj wrote: Rhubarb used to be grown on a large scale in Kirkstall and wild rhubarb can still be seen around the banks of the Aire near the Bridge Inn. Presumably escaped from the sheds. These rhubarb fields are mentioned in Jake Thackray's song "The Kirkstall Road Girl" as in: "No more lampost deals, no more rendezvous in the rhubarb fields" (the song's about a prostitute who's gone up in the world) As I've posted elsewhere on the forum, Hollybush Farm, between the canal and river by the bridge, was once a rhubarb farm.