Exactly where is your village in Leeds?

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 12:22 am

i was born near the hol beck,but brought up on gipton,which is mentioned in the doomsday book and stretched from colton to chapletown road.all the farms and manor houses have gone,yet a few victorian mansions still exist.where the eight shops(or whats left of them) stand,there was a row of ancient cottages,along with beautiful farm houses all over the 'estate',some of which can be seen on leodis.alas,most of this was demolished to make way for the council estate,just before the last war.people now think of gipton as been just that,a council estate,yet it was called the gipton estate for a hell of a long time before the houses were built and now,like too many areas of leeds,its once rich history is gone,all but forgotten 'mongst the mists of time....

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 12:46 am

The original settlement of Morley was based around Morley Bottoms. St Mary's church higher up the hill is on a site occupied by places of worship for over 1000 years.

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 12:47 am

wiggy wrote: i was born near the hol beck,but brought up on gipton,which is mentioned in the doomsday book and stretched from colton to chapletown road.all the farms and manor houses have gone,yet a few victorian mansions still exist.where the eight shops(or whats left of them) stand,there was a row of ancient cottages,along with beautiful farm houses all over the 'estate',some of which can be seen on leodis.alas,most of this was demolished to make way for the council estate,just before the last war.people now think of gipton as been just that,a council estate,yet it was called the gipton estate for a hell of a long time before the houses were built and now,like too many areas of leeds,its once rich history is gone,all but forgotten 'mongst the mists of time.... wiggy come to think of it id jump in that hypothetical time machine of yours and visit all those places in gipton youve just mentioned.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 2:36 am

Brandy wrote: wiggy wrote: i was born near the hol beck,but brought up on gipton,which is mentioned in the doomsday book and stretched from colton to chapletown road.all the farms and manor houses have gone,yet a few victorian mansions still exist.where the eight shops(or whats left of them) stand,there was a row of ancient cottages,along with beautiful farm houses all over the 'estate',some of which can be seen on leodis.alas,most of this was demolished to make way for the council estate,just before the last war.people now think of gipton as been just that,a council estate,yet it was called the gipton estate for a hell of a long time before the houses were built and now,like too many areas of leeds,its once rich history is gone,all but forgotten 'mongst the mists of time.... wiggy come to think of it id jump in that hypothetical time machine of yours and visit all those places in gipton youve just mentioned. hey brandy mate,there must of been an ale house or mead house amongst the farms of our elders and betters....how about a few flaggens in the brander arms....the amberton and crown or the saint wilfrid arms? or maybe a spot of trout fishing in the once wide and deep wyke-beck persouth??(why am i speaking like stewey from family guy??)

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 3:05 am

have you deeked that old picture of dr waldens surgery on leodis wiggy??i have worked out that gipton farm must have been(IMO)somewhere around where coldcoates garth is now??it makes a bit of sense with south farm road and north farm road and then that area roughly in the middle what do you think??did you hear about the florrie charver?? boooooooooom lolfrom what ive sussed out i think the smackheads were in there after the rammle mush!

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 5:04 am

Brandy wrote: have you deeked that old picture of dr waldens surgery on leodis wiggy??i have worked out that gipton farm must have been(IMO)somewhere around where coldcoates garth is now??it makes a bit of sense with south farm road and north farm road and then that area roughly in the middle what do you think??did you hear about the florrie charver?? boooooooooom lolfrom what ive sussed out i think the smackheads were in there after the rammle mush! i hope the smack'eds were.....cos i have my own thoughts about who did the florry....and the compton and the prospect...(sorry,richmond.gas boooom my [edited for content]..... you know who did it,and so do i,it's them ........again)....P.S.YOU ARE CORRECT ABOUT THE FARMS...)....my families doctor was henry walden!!! from 1938,until he died....his daughter and grand-daughter are my families general practitioners now....long live the waldens......oh! bye the way.....his grand daughter is fit as fooo man choooo!

Post by **chameleon** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 11:55 am

wiggy wrote: Brandy wrote: have you deeked that old picture of dr waldens surgery on leodis wiggy??i have worked out that gipton farm must have been(IMO)somewhere around where coldcoates garth is now??it makes a bit of sense with south farm road and north farm road and then that area roughly in the middle what do you think??did you hear about the florrie charver?? boooooooooom lolfrom what ive sussed out i think the smackheads were in there after the rammle mush! i hope the smack'eds were.....cos i have my own thoughts about who did the florry....and the compton and the prospect...(sorry,richmond.gas boooom my [edited for content]..... you know who did it,and so do i,it's them ........again)....P.S.YOU ARE CORRECT ABOUT THE FARMS...)....my families doctor was henry walden!!! from 1938,until he died....his daughter and grand-daughter are my families general practitioners now....long live the waldens......oh! bye the way.....his grand daughter is fit as fooo man choooo! Walden, Sharp, Silman and Lewis indeed! My family's GPs from when Dr Sharp first started in Practice, using the hall as a waitng area and the 'parlor' at the rear of my Great Aunt's small cottage (on the old road, past Poplar House in Seacroft) as his surgery.I remember Dr Walden's daughter, Fay starting - and now you say his Grandaughter... suddenly feeling my years here

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 12:34 pm

[quotenick="wiggyor maybe a spot of trout fishing in the once wide and deep wyke-beck persouth??(why am i speaking like stewey from family guy??)Have you got an egg shaped head?

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 2:05 pm

The Parksider wrote: simonm wrote: A walk through the Hall rd area see's old house gate posts. No house left, well not the original house, but the gateposts are still there. I'll have a look - anything else? theres lots, going up hill top there are some rather grand gates on th left hand side, as you look up the hill. Obviously not built for the present house, but must have been a decent residence at one time??

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 9:24 pm

exiled in essex wrote: I was born in 1972 in Scholes and lived there until 2006. It's still very much a village (no village green though) and the people of Scholes have fought to keep it that way. How long it will remain that way is anybody's guess though as I believe the council have been wanting to build around it for years. It used to be protected by green belt land but I'm not sure if that is the case any more. Plans have already been drawn up under the UDP a few years ago to build an "Outer Outer Ring Road" dual carriageway leaving the current Outer Ring Road betwixt Harrogate Road and Red Hall which will skirt around the North of Red Hall, cross Wetherby Road (bridge) and go between Whinmoor and Thorner, cross York Road (another bridge), then go between Swarcliffe and Scholes, before skirting around the side of Pendas Fields and Austhorpe before joining the M1 extension at Thorpe Park (near Sainsburys).The plan goes on to state that the areas either side of said new road will be developed for industrial, commercial and residential use.There should have been a massive public outcry about this at the time, but it was barely mentioned. My local ward councillor actaully sent a leaflet to every home stating the far reaching effects of the plan and stating that people needed to be aware of what it contained, but people just don't seem aware of what is about to happen under their noses...Oh, and back to the thread subject, I lived nearly all my formative years in Seacroft like Parksider...