The things you see...

[tilly]

I see they have just found out that diarrheoa is hereditary it runs in your jeans.lol

[tilly]

Any one know the history of this cross in Bramley Park?

[Mork of Ork]

tilly wrote: Any one know the history of this cross in Bramley Park? I know that through most of my childhood it was missing as some yobbos had pushed it over.

[raveydavey]

tilly wrote: Any one know the history of this cross in Bramley Park? Is this the one?http://www.tracksintime.wyjs.org.uk/pdf ... il.pub.pdf(see page 5) I've copied the relevant text below: Enter Gott’s Park through the gateway immediately ahead. Justinside the gate and to your right, is a building now known as The Lodge. This, and a few buildings behind it, are all that remains ofthe extensive outbuildings, stable yards, and gardener’s house associated with Armley House that the 1846 tithe map recordsstanding here. However, in front of The Lodge, a large cross of Celtic design, recalls the erection of alms houses on the same spot, by Benjamin Gott, in 1823. These were endowed by Gott’sdaughter, Harriet, and the cross raised in their memory by W H Gott in 1902. it is not clear whether, by 1846, the Gott family had employed the poor of their alms houses as gardeners to the estate, or if the alms houses here had simply changed use. Either way, no reference to their use as alms houses is made in the tithe apportionment.

[tilly]

Thanks for your replys Mork of Ork and raveydavey.It looks like the cross was moved from Gotts Park to Bramley Park. There is an inscription on the side that mentions Bengamin Gott and his work in Bramley in the mid eighteen hundreds.        

[dervish99]

I had to do a tripple take the other day, on Staningly Road there was a guy driving a Rentokill van wearing a chicken on his head.....obviously some sort of fluffy hat shaped like a chicken but imagine the sight of someone with their head inside a fresh oven ready chicken..... bizzare