Attention Brandy. Guess where Leeds time again :-)

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Fri 03 Apr, 2009 9:22 am

Brandy wrote: Phill_dvsn wrote: The shorts have well and truly been eaten mate.I commend you there. I do loads of this Google earthing for my visits. I know it isn't easy at all. I'm well impressed.Do you know how hard it can be to pin point a railway tunnel sometimes?It's all underground of couse lol ;-)Just the tell tell feint mark were the earth changes at the portal. To tell you the truth mate i can spend hours going over google earth.Im the same with old maps,i remember once for christmas when i was about 6 or summet i asked father christmas for a A-Z lol I do the same! The other night I had two maps open at once, an old one from the 1800s and Google Earth. I traced the tramway from Leeds to Rothwell Haigh and found that the electricity sub-station was still there. It's very addictive, is mapreading - I started with an old road atlas I bought for 3p at a jumble sale when I was about 12!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 03 Apr, 2009 10:01 am

Cool Tasa. Were about is the substation would you care to divulge pls?Were heading down to Crich to play on the Leeds trams to finish off our little project we've been working on over the weeks lol P.s we had a look inside the one at Kirkstall last week

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Fri 03 Apr, 2009 10:39 am

Phill_dvsn wrote: Cool Tasa. Were about is the substation would you care to divulge pls?Were heading down to Crich to play on the Leeds trams to finish off our little project we've been working on over the weeks lol P.s we had a look inside the one at Kirkstall last week Yes, here are two maps from 1921 - it belonged to Yorkshire Electric Tramways, not Leeds City (otherwise I would probably have let you know about it!), plus the link to birds-eye view on Live Search Maps. I'm not sure if the car depot from the map is the same building on the current site.I was going to go inside the Kirkstall one the other week as it was open, but I was tired of walking by that point so a photo of the outside had to suffice!Enjoy Crich - I've never been but will get there one day!http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Fri 03 Apr, 2009 10:43 am

Second map zoomed in a bit.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 03 Apr, 2009 10:46 am

Many thanks for that Tasa.B.t.w i was google street searching last night.. lol.I'm sure i spied you ha ha.I'll let you know were it is.I could be wrong of course but you will know for sure lol.

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Fri 03 Apr, 2009 10:47 am

Yes, let me know - I hope it wasn't somewhere dodgy

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 03 Apr, 2009 11:07 am

No it wasn't lol. Don't panic!!I've sent you an e mail.

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Fri 03 Apr, 2009 12:21 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: No it's not Weetwood mate.A clue for you guys (especially Brandy.. I only visited my old ladies today at Seacroft. It was a lovely day for a walk. He's guessed one place at the Oakwells behind Tesco's already. The other 2 can't be a million miles away i'd say lol Also Chrism has guessed the sculpture is in Mutton chops back garden. He got the clue.I don' think he knows were he lives tho I knew it was Richards gaff as I have seen pix of it before, I sort of remembered it was up Oakwood/Roundhay/Wetherby Road way but I ain't been there even though I know him, slightly. I have a few Jazz musician mates in Leeds and he's popped up at gigs at The White House and The Mansion. I've also seen him play with bands all over the place. He is very talented and apparently has a huge Jazz record/CD collection.

leedslily · Post by **leedslily** » Fri 03 Apr, 2009 1:01 pm

[quotenick="Brandy"]Grrrrrrrr congrats leedslily......................im off for a quick sulk then il be back to find the other Thanks Brandy, thought I'd better get in quick because it's so rare for me to know where any of these are! It was purely by chance that I knew this one though, as I used to live just around the corner, so didn't need any of your awesome detective work. Agree with you and Tasa about maps though - fascinating!