skelton grange cottages 1970's

[mish1966]

hello there people. i am new to this site tonight and have been advised this maybe the best place for me to find out some information i am looking for on skelton grange cottages that have now been demolished.i used to live there many years ago with my family being looked after by my grandparents who rented the house there davd and elizabeth oatman. it was cottage number 1 skelton grange cottages, knowstrope lane.i have been there today in the car to revisit but i knew the cottages had gone from looking at google maps, but was nice to go back down memory lane as i had not been there since i was 13 years old.can anyone tell me if there are any photos that exisit of this site where i used to live as virtually everything has now gone. my sir name was nixon if anyone remembers that name from back in the day. many thanks. michelle.

[Phill_dvsn]

I guess your best bet will be to look on Leodis Michele. The search function isn't very good (I think anyway) on that site. I've not seen very much posted around Skelton Grange on Secret Leeds before, it does seem to be a bit of forgotten Leeds for sure.Anyone else know anything?

[chickencatcher]

Hi,     Also my first day with this site. I am curious about Skelton Grange Cottages. My Cousin lived there with her husband and daughters til about 1966 when the emigrated to Aus. I used to spend many weekends with them. What I remember was that at the end of the street was a great big power station, and also a pig farm. I only remember three cottages, they lived on the end one, nearest the driveway, and a couple of kids that I only remember as Ian and Ernest oon the other end. My cousin was Mary Kendall. I think not far behind the houses was a canal or river (that I fell into once). I'm not even sure of the name of the road. I would like to hear from anybody that can help.Oh, and I was born in Donny as well.FrederickHerring

[Si]

Hi Michelle and Frederick.I've looked on Leodis for you, but can only find pictures of the power station, and usually in the far distance! The river and canal you refer to, are the Aire and the Aire and Calder Navigation, which run parallel here. I don't have any old maps of this area either.Sorry I can't be of more help.

[Reginal Perrin]

I was born on Iverage Grove in Hunslet not a million miles away from there. Where abouts are we talking? Stourton / Thwaite Gate had a thriving little community up tot he 70's. Where abouts were Skelton Grange Cottages?

[Si]

I've managed to find Skelton Grange on an 1890 map. It also exists on the earlier Tithe map, and a 1910 map. This area is now under a field of what look like electricity transformers associated with the former power station. The Aire is in the bottom left corner.    

[Si]

This row of cottages are a little further downstream of the above map, on Knowsthorpe Lane. I don't know which buildings are the ones that Michelle and Frederick are refering to.    

[jim]

You can find seven maps of this area by googling old-maps and entering co-ordinates 433000 , 431400. If you try to alter the scaleof the 1 ; 2500 maps it will bring up "you cannot use the zoom function on 1 :2500 scale mapping". The trick is to transfer to a 1 : 10560 scale map in the thumbnails underneath, adjust the zoom to your preference, and then return to the 1 : 2500 map as before. Hope this helps.

[Lanky_92]

Did you actually live there during the 70's or before this? My Grandma lived in Dandy Row, the cottages on Thwaite Island on the other side of the Aire/Calder Navigation, and she told me she used to wave and have conversations (via shouting) with a girl who lived in the Skelton Cottages over the Navigation. However, this would have been in the 40's, so probably before your time!

[Si]

Hi Lanky. This thread was started over two years ago by two different people. Neither of them have ever posted again since. I don't think they'll be back!