Two Structures

[big_rob2004]

Been meaning to post this for a long time now:Firstly I was taking a walk thro the top woods in Roundhay park just a little bit up from the site of Braimwood School and came across this! It looks like one of the bandstands found in the main part of the park but why on earth would one be so far up in to the woods with no view of the park? Its also worth mentioning that it is on a concrete base and is well anchored down so looks like it's meant to be there. Here is the pic:Secondly I see this every day on the way to/from work and have often wondered what it is. It appears to look like a post box of some sort from a distance but up close, looking through the grill in the top, there is a second load of grills. It is situated on Northern Street and from looking at old photos and maps, looks like it would have been situated under the railway bridge of the lines in to central station. Here is the pic:Does anyone know anything about either of these?ta

[Phill_dvsn]

The story about the blue vent last pic is here Big Rob.http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/4414470091/I've never seen the old bandstand though, It looks good. I'd like to see it myself.    

[chameleon]

Phill_dvsn wrote: The story about the blue vent last pic is here Big Rob.http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/4414470091/I've never seen the old bandstand though, It looks good. I'd like to see it myself.     And indeed featured extesively in several threads if you search back.

[The Parksider]

big_rob2004 wrote: Been meaning to post this for a long time now:Firstly I was taking a walk thro the top woods in Roundhay park just a little bit up from the site of Braimwood School and came across this! It looks like one of the bandstands found in the main part of the park but why on earth would one be so far up in to the woods with no view of the park? Its also worth mentioning that it is on a concrete base and is well anchored down so looks like it's meant to be there. Here is the pic: I aren't sure of the location Rob, Braim Wood itself is at the north east end of the lake and the woods near the school site are west of it past St.Johns and south and east of the lake.Whilst there is a circular bandstand in the Park towards the Mansion there were also "shelters" both circular and oblong in the park.I think the Victorians were more sensitive to getting wet (which they said could mean you "catch your death") and so in many parks they built shelters and this looks like one to pop in whilst the rain eases off.Though without it's roof it's no good no more!!!!But with the quality of waterproof coats with hoods and waterproof trousers and advances in medical science it don't matter!!!

[chameleon]

The 1906 map does indeed show a shelter adjacent to the path through the northern Braim Wood, towards the top of the lake but, this is quite some way beyond the school site. Is this it do you think?

[LS1]

I would hazard a tentative guess that the bandstand thing MAY be original. I know the Nicholsons put a few of these in the woods to the east of the lake, and if you also look on the old maps there is a gamekeepers cottage to the North East tip of Waterloo lake.

[Phill_dvsn]

chameleon wrote: The 1906 map does indeed show a shelter adjacent to the path through the northern Braim Wood, towards the top of the lake but, this is quite some way beyond the school site. Is this it do you think? Can you put one of those 1906 maps up Chameleon?

[The Parksider]

chameleon wrote: The 1906 map does indeed show a shelter adjacent to the path through the northern Braim Wood, towards the top of the lake but, this is quite some way beyond the school site. Is this it do you think? Godfrey 1906??I parked in the swimming baths area car park. Walked up to the top of the wood on the right passing the NW corner of the St. Johns Church I followed the walled baoundary between Elmete Hall estate and Roundhay park. I passed the gate through this wall from the house (you can see the path down from the house to the gate.....Still following me on the map?? Continuing following the wall north and moving well north and west from where the school is you can look down on other paths below and search for the old shelter.Eventually you hit the T boundary beyond which the wall is between the park and the Golf course. After some way you come into Braim Wood as you can see it marked on the 1906 map. The only shelter marked is an oblong by the lakeside path - that is NOT there as that's the path I took back.Through Braime wood at the top (east side) of the hillside and looking down for the shelter - nothing, then past the site of the keepers house before dropping down to the great heads beck about 30M above where it empties into the lake.Found nowt, shoes thick in mud, trouser bottoms muddy, but a lovely day and interesting walk leaving me fascinated still - where is that shelter????Read on......

[The Parksider]

As I dropped down from the Golf course/park boundary towards the Great heads beck you have to cross over a built up embankment. The crossing is made from old railway sleepers and waste bricks. The bricks are variously marked "Middleton" and LFC (Leeds Fireclay) the former being red, the ladder a sandy colour. Some are marked JM & S and don't know which that brickworks was. There's also white tile glazed bricks and it's a bit of a history pot/collection of old leeds brick!!On the embankment is a concrete drainage chamber, with a square brick inspection entry - someone has had the cover off and you can hear the water rushing through. I suppose (Cardiarms will confirm) this is the main sewer running from shadwell down the wyke valley to the sewage works on Ponte Lane?

[chameleon]

Phill_dvsn wrote: chameleon wrote: The 1906 map does indeed show a shelter adjacent to the path through the northern Braim Wood, towards the top of the lake but, this is quite some way beyond the school site. Is this it do you think? Can you put one of those 1906 maps up Chameleon? This might help