My walk around Victorian Holbeck.

[uncle mick]

Barleycorn Street 1890 map on Old Maps website Spence Lane on the map for reference. A couple of mentions on Leodishttp://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIde ... SPLAY=FULL

[uncle mick]

Barleycorn Street

[Jogon]

KiwianaI don't have anything but 2 tips that might help.1If you are able from google or old trade directory to find a detailed address and from that a current up to date postcode, try Tithe Maps Leeds. http://locateit.leeds.gov.uk/tithemaps/This has a split screen for current and other older changeable map to left.You can full screen that, englarge. Then if you've found it, click middle button 'print view' and it enlarges the old map[see screen capture]2.Again, with date address etc, enter google 'image' search eg "Barelycorn Street Hunslet + Leodis"Leodis is Leeds Library imagebank.If an image comes up click to enlarge it on Leodis and comments come up below.Some hold clues and give info and occasionally an email address.    

[Jogon]

Also on Tithe an ownership / tenant list search facility.Again you need names [see image]

[uncle mick]

See if this works ???http://tinyurl.com/ljayk2fEdit - Thanks jogon

[kiwinana]

Woo Hoo, thanks to those who were so quick in helping me out. Imagine if we did not have the internet, it would have taken me 6 months to get a reply - well this is back in the 1880's!Cheers and thanks againJudith Gardineraka kiwinana

[BarFly]

For a while now I have wondered if the following is/was a bridge over the beck:http://goo.gl/maps/CF1gSIt fits in with a map Leodian posted on another thread and my notion of where the now invisible Hol Beck goes between the industrial estate on Geldered road where I recently pictured it and Water Lane.Could I be close or is there another explanation for the features in this area?

[Leodian]

Queries and suggestions of where Hol Beck used to discharge into the River Aire have been mentioned in posts earlier in this thread (a thought of mine was very likely wrong!). While looking yesterday at the flood defence work that has recently(ish) started in the area by the modern culverted outflow of Hol Beck I spotted something that though I will have often seen I had never given any thought to. These are 2 photos that I took on June 4 2015. The first shows some metal or concrete work (to the right of the shrubs) that I wonder may be where Hol Beck once came out. The second photo is a zoomed-in view. I have looked at some Ordnance Survey maps and though not conclusive they do give some support to my suggestion.

[LS1]

Does it go that far Leo, or does it does it discharge into the Aire under the bridge part of Neville Street where it meets Water Lane?

Here...https://goo.gl/maps/Zo0TF

[Leodian]

Does it go that far Leo, or does it does it discharge into the Aire under the bridge part of Neville Street where it meets Water Lane?

Here...https://goo.gl/maps/Zo0TF

Hiya LS1 .

To the best of my knowledge it is Hol Beck that flows out at the culverted area that is a just upriver of Victoria Bridge and is seen to the left in the wider field-of-view photo that I took on June 4 2015. In the Google image that you have a link to part of the current Hol Beck outflow is just visible in about the centre of the image. The Google image is further interesting as it may account for why I don't recall seeing the possible old outflow site, as it was covered by thick shrub growth (much of that has now been removed during the flood defence work).