SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

Did a search and couldn't find anyone mentioning itAvailable on BBC iPlayer for 7 days - Has a short section about Leeds history and the rhubarb industry. Might interest some.Interesting feature about the Yorkshire film archive.Always wondered why they forced rhubarb. Recalled there were massive sheds on early maps near elland road football ground    

Also repeated one night at about 3am during the week, with signing for the hard of hearing. I caught the last half of it, looks quite good so I'll have to have a look. Ravenscar looked really interesting.

There's nowt much there but what there is is great.

raveydavey wrote: Also repeated one night at about 3am during the week, with signing for the hard of hearing. I caught the last half of it, looks quite good so I'll have to have a look. Ravenscar looked really interesting. If its the Ravenscar near Robin Hoods Bay it was a Roman Signal Post one of many along that coast.

tilly wrote: raveydavey wrote: Also repeated one night at about 3am during the week, with signing for the hard of hearing. I caught the last half of it, looks quite good so I'll have to have a look. Ravenscar looked really interesting. If its the Ravenscar near Robin Hoods Bay it was a Roman Signal Post one of many along that coast. It is. I was more interested by the failed plans at the turn of the 20th Century to create a whole new resort there, which appears to have gotten as far as a station and laying out the roads, drains, etc but little further.Could be quite an interesting spot to have a wander round with the camera and to swot up on the history of the place.

raveydavey wrote: tilly wrote: raveydavey wrote: Also repeated one night at about 3am during the week, with signing for the hard of hearing. I caught the last half of it, looks quite good so I'll have to have a look. Ravenscar looked really interesting. If its the Ravenscar near Robin Hoods Bay it was a Roman Signal Post one of many along that coast. It is. I was more interested by the failed plans at the turn of the 20th Century to create a whole new resort there, which appears to have gotten as far as a station and laying out the roads, drains, etc but little further.Could be quite an interesting spot to have a wander round with the camera and to swot up on the history of the place. It's been many years since I was last there but likely little has changed. If you go to the sea it is long way down and and a slog back up! Look out for fossils in the rocks. Be sure to see the old Alum works site which was still mostly covered by vegetation when I was last there but I understand is now more visible after restoration work. Great walk to Robin Hood's Bay but be sure to know the tides (I prefered to walk there on the sea shore with an out going tide and the cliff top track for the way back).

raveydavey wrote: It is. I was more interested by the failed plans at the turn of the 20th Century to create a whole new resort there, which appears to have gotten as far as a station and laying out the roads, drains, etc but little further. It was also covered in one of the episodes in one of the series of coast. Now in its 4th (?) series.

raveydavey wrote: tilly wrote: raveydavey wrote: Also repeated one night at about 3am during the week, with signing for the hard of hearing. I caught the last half of it, looks quite good so I'll have to have a look. Ravenscar looked really interesting. If its the Ravenscar near Robin Hoods Bay it was a Roman Signal Post one of many along that coast. It is. I was more interested by the failed plans at the turn of the 20th Century to create a whole new resort there, which appears to have gotten as far as a station and laying out the roads, drains, etc but little further.Could be quite an interesting spot to have a wander round with the camera and to swot up on the history of the place. Hi raveydavey I have had a few drinks in the big hotel there this could have been part of the failed plans.If you get there at the right time on a summers evening and see the sun go down over Robin Hoods Bay that is a site you will never forget.

It always makes me do a bit of a double-take to see sunsets on the EAST coast - never seems quite right somehow!