Garages in Yeadon

Si · Post by Si » Tue 22 Dec, 2009 4:37 pm

This picture from Leodis shows the marker-stone outside Murgatroyd's chippy pinpointing the original site of the fountain.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Tue 22 Dec, 2009 4:52 pm

The control cabinet has more presence.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Tue 22 Dec, 2009 5:39 pm

Si wrote: Si wrote: isambard01 wrote: Although the Yeadon fountain was destroyed during the war, part of it still does exist. If you go into Yeadon Town Hall you will see a plaque, which was originally on the fountain, above the box office . . . There was an article in the Memory Lane section of the Wharfe Valley Times this week about the old Yeadon fountain. It included an old photo showing it's position, design and size. According to the writer, Ian Hutton, an RAF lorry damaged it during the wartime black-out, and the stones were "taken to a safe place." A local historian, Doug Downs, reckons the fountain has been re-built and can be seen in "St Annes" - presumably in Lancashire. There was a follow up to this story in the Wharfe Valley Times this week. The fountain has been found! There's a photo of it in it's new home, a surprisingly prominent position on the sea-front at St Annes! There doesn't appear to be any damage, and presumably no mention on it from whence it came, or how it got there. I wonder if many residents of St Annes know of it's history? It seems strange that this area of Yeadon is still known as t' fountain when it's not been there for donkeys years and more to the point wot the heck is it doing in St.Annes? We'll have it back please and they can have the lump of stone!