Quarry Hill Flats

Post by **mhoulden** » Mon 30 Dec, 2013 6:22 pm

Looks like they have several copies: http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/leeds/item ... y%3Dravetz, but the original rather than the reprint. You can search the Leeds library catalogue at http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/leeds/.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Mon 30 Dec, 2013 8:56 pm

[quotenick="BLAKEY"] cnosni wrote: Jogon wrote: Something for Quarry Hill AND bus fans:A bus using a petrol substitute at the bus station in Leeds, c 1943. Clearly visible is one of the containers for synthetic fuel, which is pulled along behind the bus like a trailer. Quarry Hill flats visible.[img]pg[/img] Just a little extra information for the transport fans and WW2 and Quarry Hill historians. The bus is Bullock and Sons number 146 - a 1933 petrol engined Leyland Titan TD2 with Leyland body. When B & S sold out to West Riding in 1950 the vehicle was one of several already withdrawn for disposal and therefore never ran for West Riding. Now that is the sort of, throwaway add-on comment that yields pure gold here.Thanks Blakey, health and happiness for 2014.How about hiring a classic bus up to Thruscross for an SL picnic on the banks?

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Mon 30 Dec, 2013 9:00 pm

Leodian wrote: LS1 wrote: This looks interesting, albeit expensive!http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Model-Estate- ... 25868e439e Wow, that is expensive at £112.58 + £2.75 post and delivery! I wonder if the Leeds Central Reference Library will get (or already have) a copy? £68 new on Amazon, far safer trading than piratebayor£24 on yer Kindlehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Model-Estate-Routledge ... hill+leeds

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 30 Dec, 2013 9:55 pm

Cheers mhoulden and Jogon for the information about the book.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Mon 30 Dec, 2013 9:59 pm

[quotenick="Jogon"] BLAKEY wrote: cnosni wrote: Jogon wrote: Something for Quarry Hill AND bus fans:A bus using a petrol substitute at the bus station in Leeds, c 1943. Clearly visible is one of the containers for synthetic fuel, which is pulled along behind the bus like a trailer. Quarry Hill flats visible.[img]pg[/img] Just a little extra information for the transport fans and WW2 and Quarry Hill historians. The bus is Bullock and Sons number 146 - a 1933 petrol engined Leyland Titan TD2 with Leyland body. When B & S sold out to West Riding in 1950 the vehicle was one of several already withdrawn for disposal and therefore never ran for West Riding. Now that is the sort of, throwaway add-on comment that yields pure gold here.Thanks Blakey, health and happiness for 2014.How about hiring a classic bus up to Thruscross for an SL picnic on the banks? Thanks Jogon, and all the best too for 2014 to you and to all our friends on SL I think I'll give the bank at Thruscross a miss if its all the same to you, as I came as near as I ever want to be to perishing in the mud there during the drought of 1995 - and I'm not kidding or exaggerating. There is a short video on YouTube somewhere which tells the story.

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Tue 31 Dec, 2013 2:42 am

BLAKEY wrote: There is a short video on YouTube somewhere which tells the story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_8UsGfD2Uo

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Tue 31 Dec, 2013 9:44 am

uncle mick wrote: BLAKEY wrote: There is a short video on YouTube somewhere which tells the story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_8UsGfD2Uo Thanks uncle mick - even though its my own video I had "mislaid it electronically" Here is the snapshot of my coach, taken in 1961 on a school contract in the last days before the village was closed for ever for the building of the reservoir, and on the day of the video the little pack horse bridge had largely survived 34 years under the water, although the lush trees, of course, had not !!