Storm drain covers

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Sun 29 Mar, 2009 5:39 pm

anyone know what the lettering is about! does this happen often or is it localised to this particular part of Leeds! Answers on a postcard........er.... below i suppose!!!!

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Sun 29 Mar, 2009 5:42 pm

Damn! posted thread on wrong section!!! Admin please move to General Chat!!!!!

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Sun 29 Mar, 2009 6:42 pm

Huddersfield Urban District Council?

Post by **chameleon** » Sun 29 Mar, 2009 6:54 pm

rangieowner wrote: Damn! posted thread on wrong section!!! Admin please move to General Chat!!!!! No sooner asked than someone already has - how's that for service then Rangie??(Actually we're all waiting round the corner with fingers on buttons waiting for the spam merchants )

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Sun 29 Mar, 2009 7:47 pm

rangieowner wrote: anyone know what the lettering is about! does this happen often or is it localised to this particular part of Leeds! Answers on a postcard........er.... below i suppose!!!! Which particular part of Leeds?

Leeds-lad · Post by **Leeds-lad** » Sun 29 Mar, 2009 9:36 pm

I would find it highly unlikely that you would find any ironwork in Leeds which has come from outside the Leeds boundary.I would imagine this gulley grate is from the old Horsforth UDC,inside the old Horsforth boundary now belonging to Leeds.Possibly somewhere around Horsforth Town St.

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Sun 29 Mar, 2009 10:03 pm

Well done Leeds-Lad! Horforth UDC it is! It's on Stanhope Drive to be exact, But does it occur anywhere else in Leeds???

simong · Post by **simong** » Mon 30 Mar, 2009 9:43 am

There is certainly street furniture up here that bears the mark of Aireborough UDC. However that storm drain probably dates back to the latter part of the 19th century as, if I've read correctly, Leeds Corporation took over the area's water supply in 1901.

Leeds-lad · Post by **Leeds-lad** » Mon 30 Mar, 2009 6:40 pm

rangieowner wrote: Well done Leeds-Lad! Horforth UDC it is! It's on Stanhope Drive to be exact, But does it occur anywhere else in Leeds??? I think you'll find rangie that there are lots of Gulley Grates/manhole covers /stop tap boxes all over the outskirts of Leeds in the various Boroughs that used to exist with the BoroughInitials on.These will be found where the roads have not been surfaced for many years. The Highways dept. replace these as an ongoing maintainence programme in order to comply with BS.You will note in the photo of your HUDC grate that the vents run in line with the c/way,a death trap for cyclists in some of the grates used in the past,some of these were wider than the tyres on the Racing Cycles that many still ride today.

Leeds-lad · Post by **Leeds-lad** » Mon 30 Mar, 2009 6:43 pm

By the way I'm amazed it is still there,obviously our Traveller friends have not been up that way yet!