Steepest street in Leeds?

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Sun 13 Feb, 2011 2:52 pm

Or Servia Mount? I remember toiling up these streets to go the pictures.http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... 6_74564761

Mork of Ork · Post by **Mork of Ork** » Mon 14 Feb, 2011 4:08 pm

Kirkstall Hill must be one of the steepest. A guy at work said that years ago the conductor asked everyone to get off a bus as it couldn't make it up! They had to walk up the hill and get back on the bus at the top.

Richard A Thackeray · Post by **Richard A Thackeray** » Mon 14 Feb, 2011 9:22 pm

anthonydna wrote: Holmfirth must be the steepest place in the UK, I've never seen a programme about it that didn't feature a pensioner or two hurtling down a hill in some kind of contraption, usually a bath tub. What about the Halifax & Sowerby Bridge area for steepness?There's a cobbled lane (Lee Lane?) that runs from the 'Dam Inn'(??) at Shibden, up to Swales Moor, where the dry ski-slope is/was??(there's a pub up there called 'The Starving Rascal')Now that's a steep road, & all but impossible to get up when it's dampI've tried climbing & descending it on the bike, & ended up slithering down back down it.... minus the bike (in the rain)

yorkiesknob · Post by **yorkiesknob** » Mon 14 Feb, 2011 9:24 pm

Mork of Ork wrote: Kirkstall Hill must be one of the steepest. A guy at work said that years ago the conductor asked everyone to get off a bus as it couldn't make it up! They had to walk up the hill and get back on the bus at the top. Walked up it every day of my primary school life early 60s , bottom end of Beecroft St is quite steep too.Buses use to go that slow you could jump on anytime on the rear platform.Any one remember the farm and pig sty on the hill before the flats and houses were built.

SKE · Post by **SKE** » Wed 14 Sep, 2011 12:24 am

I spent a while cycling the steep streets of Leeds, in preparation for a planned ride up Chimney Bank at Rosedale. As it happened I never got there but it was fun (and gruelling) riding up so many steep streets. Never figured out which was steepest. but Black Hill Road (although maybe outside the boundaries of Leeds) was a nightmare ride after a long day in North Yorkshire with what turned out afterwards to be not me being out of sorts on that day but a front brake disk that was permanet;y rubbing all day!). I say nightmare ride - I had to get off and push and even then I was so knackered it was no fun whatsoever.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 14 Sep, 2011 9:48 am

Mork of Ork wrote: Kirkstall Hill must be one of the steepest. A guy at work said that years ago the conductor asked everyone to get off a bus as it couldn't make it up! They had to walk up the hill and get back on the bus at the top. Oh crikey Mork of Ork - that was VERY likely the occasion when I was the driver. Not too many details to bore the non bus fans, but LCT had 150 lightweight Mark V AEC Regents with small 7.7 litre engines, cut down misguidedly to "run on fresh air" to save fuel and believe me they wouldn't pull the skin off the proverbial rice pudding even when empty. At Headingley Depot we had the sickest of the lot (908 1908 NW) and one morning on the 50 route I had a somewhat sackless conductress who lived in a cloud. From leaving Horsforth I was vaguely aware that it was very busy indeed and that loads of folk were getting on. We crawled away from the Morris Lane stop, crossed Kirkstall Lane, and began to tackle Kirkstall Hill. The ailing 908 wouldn't wear second gear and before Beecroft Street I was down into first and losing ground and by the top of Beecroft Street I could count the rise and fall of every piston as we came to the inevitable halt. Not daring to get out on a hill like that I signalled Madam to come to the cab - she had not noticed that they were standing inside, on the steps and upstairs, and half of them had to get off and tramp up to the Merry Monk while we struggled up. She was a nice enough lass as a person, but I hope she's got a pocket calculator by now or she'd never survive. !!

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Wed 14 Sep, 2011 9:57 am

Leodian wrote: buffaloskinner wrote: Not quite Leeds, but what the ....Beat that then .... That looks fun. I might be able to manage that, but not the Ice Cube rink that is in Millennium Square. I'd like to nominate Pickering St from Armley rd to Canal Rd as the steepest street in Leeds. When I was a kid ,it was the only hill I had to dismount my bike to get up!

stodge. · Post by **stodge.** » Wed 14 Sep, 2011 11:01 am

What about Pasture Lane in Chapel Allerton ?Runs down the side of the park down towards Gledhow Valley Road.Walked up that every weekend going to the Mustard Pot (back when it cheaper) never seamed as steep coming back though, funny that.

jdbythesea · Post by **jdbythesea** » Thu 15 Sep, 2011 9:40 pm

The Rosedales off Burley Road/Street were pretty steep. Didn't they run down to the Highland Laddie as well?

Mork of Ork · Post by **Mork of Ork** » Fri 16 Sep, 2011 12:32 pm

stutterdog wrote: I'd like to nominate Pickering St from Armley rd to Canal Rd as the steepest street in Leeds. When I was a kid ,it was the only hill I had to dismount my bike to get up! I second that, I work on Canal Road and I had to get the bus whilst waiting for my car to be delivered. As a result I walked up Pickering Street every day to get the bus home!Not much fun during the icy conditions as it was Jan-March 2010!