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The collection of digitised images taken by Godfrey Bingley that are held at Leeds University has quite a number of Meanwood quarry. This is the link to a photo: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/885 that is tilted 'View of Meanwood quarry; town behind'. The photo is undated but based on other images in the collection it may have been taken in the 1880s. The quarry looks large in other images and even had a fossil tree.I wonder if anyone can tell what area the buildings in the rear are in? They look high up so I'm guessing perhaps Woodhouse Ridge. I am assuming the photos were taken in Meanwood in Leeds, not in another place called Meanwood. There did not seem to be an obvious forum to post this so I've put in in General Chat but apologies if it would better have been put elsewhere. Thanks to salt 'n pepper for bringing the photo collection to my notice in a thread 'Through the Lens of Godfrey Bingley' posted April 28 2013.

Think this is the building you can see on it's own on the left of the photo Leohttp://goo.gl/maps/py92m

Where then was the quarry? Up the back of mvu farm?

Jogon wrote: Where then was the quarry? Up the back of mvu farm? Here you go Jogon.The line of trees you see marks the course of the old quarry tramway.The rough ground next to it was where the quarry was situated.A local legend suggests that during the Civil War, a skirmish took place here and that musket balls have been found in the earth here!    

TaYou've cleared up another 'meanwood thing' I couldn't fathom:- looking at the millstream that split off from Meanwood Beck at approx the current cricket pitch / woodhouse side of MW Rd I'd looked at a couple of old maps.These showed a tram track but way off any road and so I'd wrongly assumed some kind of woodland supertram cutting to connect Grove Ln diagonally with MW Rd cutting out the junction [edit ]ta for map I just couldnt find it now.got to go:- The Village is on

Cheers for that Phill. If I am right that the building is The Grange on North Grange Mount then (using the Old-Maps UK website) I had thought the quarry may have been one of those where Meanwood Urban Farm or Sugarwell Hill Park are now. There were certainly once lots of quarries on both side of Meanwood Valley.PS. That house is on steep slope! I assume the ground floor is level but built partly under the ground.    

Jogon wrote: TaYou've cleared up another 'meanwood thing' I couldn't fathom:- looking at the millstream that split off from Meanwood Beck at approx the current cricket pitch / woodhouse side of MW Rd I'd looked at a couple of old maps.These showed a tram track but way off any road and so I'd wrongly assumed some kind of woodland supertram cutting to connect Grove Ln diagonally with MW Rd cutting out the junction [edit ]ta for map I just couldnt find it now.got to go:- The Village is on Tell me about it, I've looked at the old maps in this area till I've gone cross eyed trying to find what this place was in the past.http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/468446583/ Leodian wrote: Cheers for that Phill. My pleasure Leo

Here's one of those Council conservation area PDF files for Meanwood, it has all the history, maps and infohttp://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/meanwood%20ca%20a ... ersion.pdf

I think this Leodis shot confirms your view Leodian about North Grange Mount.http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

Thanks for that link johnnyg. The area looks different nowadays! It's also interesting that the photo shows the Meanwood Valley area around there as being fairly flat and so supports that it was a flood plain that I've seen mentions of. Presumably subsequent improved drainage now means the area is not a flood risk?