Victoriagate/Eastgate Quarter Development

Post by **cnosni** » Sat 28 Jun, 2014 3:53 pm

Leodian wrote: cnosni wrote: Cardiarms wrote: They did that last saturday. wonder why they stopped. They realised Leodian had got a shot yet, so they hung on for him That made me .There will have been (and probably still will be) good shots to be taken from Millgarth Police Station but I don't have the nerve to go in and ask (very politely) if I could go in and take photos from higher up (so no hoardings in the way for one thing!). I wonder when Millgarth is empty pending its demolition if there may be a chance to take photos inside Millgarth. Well you can only ask, or at least ask where you need to perhaps write to get permission

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 04 Jul, 2014 7:07 pm

This photo (which I took on July 3 2014) shows the then state of demolition to the Millgarth end of Eastgate (Hoagy's pub was there but has been demolished). Hoardings and metal fencing make it difficult to take photos but I got this one by sticking my camera lens bit through the fence meshwork and hoping for the best!For a moment I thought the photo included the Trinity Church spire until I realised it is the nice but smaller spire on the Leeds City Markets building (the domes on that are also seen).

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 12 Jul, 2014 2:28 pm

I thought this link to the Victoria Gate webcam may be of interest http://hammerson.reachtimelapse.co.uk/victoriagate/I don't know how often the view is updated, as at the time of posting this the date is 'Jul 11, 2014 18:00' so it has not been updated at least so far today (perhaps no work is done on weekends). The time-lapse video is interesting but it seems so far to only cover June.The webcam looks across and down much of Eastgate.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 14 Jul, 2014 9:38 pm

I took this zoomed-in photo today (July 14 2014) showing the 'bombed-looking' remains at the Eastgate/Harewood Street end of what remains of the buildings that fronted that side of Eastgate. Demolition is well on its way and it cannot long before nothing remains of those buildings. I wonder what premises the reflective panels were in?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 14 Jul, 2014 9:50 pm

I took this photo today (July 14 2014) from the Millgarth Police Station area. It was the cellars that particularly caught my eye, so I stuck my camera through the metal security fencing mesh and hoped something reasonable would come out as I could not position the camera as I wanted to. It was not until I looked at the photo when I had saved it that I realised that the man spraying water (to keep the dust down) seems to be doing something else!

Post by **cnosni** » Tue 15 Jul, 2014 11:36 am

Leodian wrote: I took this photo today (July 14 2014) from the Millgarth Police Station area. It was the cellars that particularly caught my eye, so I stuck my camera through the metal security fencing mesh and hoped something reasonable would come out as I could not position the camera as I wanted to. It was not until I looked at the photo when I had saved it that I realised that the man spraying water (to keep the dust down) seems to be doing something else! Are they from teh Police station or was that further to teh left, just out of the picture?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Tue 15 Jul, 2014 6:37 pm

cnosni wrote: Leodian wrote: I took this photo today (July 14 2014) from the Millgarth Police Station area. It was the cellars that particularly caught my eye, so I stuck my camera through the metal security fencing mesh and hoped something reasonable would come out as I could not position the camera as I wanted to. It was not until I looked at the photo when I had saved it that I realised that the man spraying water (to keep the dust down) seems to be doing something else! Are they from teh Police station or was that further to teh left, just out of the picture? Hi cnosni. That photo showing the cellars was taken from the car park at Millgarth Police Station (that was behind me) and roughly where Union Street was.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Thu 17 Jul, 2014 9:00 pm

I took this photo today (July 17 2014). There's not a lot left now!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Fri 18 Jul, 2014 1:34 pm

I was quite surprised that size of the site now it has been nearly cleared. Standing at the bottom of the now gone Union Street, it looked a very long way up to Harewood Street. Does anyone know or have access to the total area of the site?

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Fri 18 Jul, 2014 2:39 pm

LS1 wrote: I was quite surprised that size of the site now it has been nearly cleared. Standing at the bottom of the now gone Union Street, it looked a very long way up to Harewood Street. Does anyone know or have access to the total area of the site? https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit? ... 49vyURough and Ready Calculation based on the lines drawn on 3 sides of the boundary on the map aboveRectangleRed 90 x Yellow 150+ Traingle(Half a rectangle)(Green 120 -Red 90) x Yellow 150/2=15,750 Sq metreswhich for those who want it in old money is just shy of 19,000 sq yards or 170,000 sq feet