Posted: Tue 07 Feb, 2012 11:06 pm
Theres more than one way to skin a cat,copied below are the messages from the "closed" threadPoster Message LeodianUser Location: LeedsJoined on: 10-Jun-2010 12:33:50Posted: 1544 posts # Posted on: 06-Feb-2012 18:23:04. Edit | Quote In the 'Retro' section covering February 1975 on page 13 of of the Yorkshire Evening Post today it reports that the Leeds City Council wanted to "create a new precinct linking The Headrow with the Merrion Centre" adding that a planning officer said "A facility exists in the design of the Merrion Centre to create a subway between Merrion Street and The Headrow at its junction with Woodhouse Lane". It would have presumably more or less followed the short stretch of Albion Street there.The mention that such a "facilty exists" intrigues me. I wonder what that was (possibly still is)? Top Phill_dvsnUser Location: LeedsJoined on: 21-Feb-2007 10:17:09Posted: 2035 posts # Posted on: 06-Feb-2012 18:40:53. Delete | Edit | Quote Pound to a penny the 'facility' they mean was the ramp under street level for the Wade Lane subway herehttp://g.co/maps/dghptNote the air vent in the new brickwork now built on top of the ramp.The underground space extended past the subway into a dead end roughly under Merrion Street. This view is looking towards the ramphttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/538830795/You can see how the subway extended past the actual Wade Lane subway, the dead end on the right would have formed the subway extension to the Headrow in my opinionhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/538693 ... tostream/I should imagine any subway would have gone directly under the roads, they can't excavate under existing buildings. The route following Merrion St to Woodhouse Lane e.t.c! My flickr pictures are herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make! Top LeodianUser Location: LeedsJoined on: 10-Jun-2010 12:33:50Posted: 1544 posts # Posted on: 06-Feb-2012 18:48:07. Delete | Edit | Quote Cheers Phill. Top chameleonUser Location: LeedsJoined on: 29-Mar-2007 22:46:49Posted: 4793 posts # Posted on: 06-Feb-2012 19:07:21. Delete | Edit | Quote More to the point, partticularly with the different street level, I'd wonder what advantage it would offer. Top Phill_dvsnUser Location: LeedsJoined on: 21-Feb-2007 10:17:09Posted: 2035 posts # Posted on: 06-Feb-2012 19:24:27. Delete | Edit | Quote chameleon wrote: More to the point, partticularly with the different street level, I'd wonder what advantage it would offer. Wishful thinking like the Leeds skywalk I think. No doubt any such scheme would have been closed 15 years later being labelled a squalid disgrace! My flickr pictures are herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make! Top cnosniUser Location: LeedsJoined on: 28-Mar-2007 21:17:06Posted: 3147 posts # Posted on: 06-Feb-2012 22:44:21. Delete | Edit | Quote Phill_dvsn wrote: chameleon wrote: More to the point, partticularly with the different street level, I'd wonder what advantage it would offer. Wishful thinking like the Leeds skywalk I think. No doubt any such scheme would have been closed 15 years later being labelled a squalid disgrace! I think you are right Phil,but one thing is for certain,judging by all the other examples of subways in Leeds this would have become a squalid disgrace,and like those other subways it would have become so because of some of the citizens of our fair city. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnosni/