Superb 1891 Hunslet brickyard/quarry photos

grumpytramp · Post by **grumpytramp** » Tue 04 May, 2010 10:55 pm

grumpytramp wrote: Is this Mr Gould who lives next door to his recently acquired brickpit on Hillidge Road the Gould of Gould and Stevenson? The answer is a definative, yes!By pure fluke, searching Google Books, for other directories I tried on a whim a few choice words to search and hey presto a link to the Leeds Geological Association's Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 3, Parts 11-15 [1898]. Unfortunately it is still bound by copyright restrictions; however it shows a few sentences as a snippet view.Here they were just enough: Quote: This section adjoins that in Plate 1 and is situated at the junction of Jack Lane and Hillidge Road, Hunslet. It was formerly worked by Messers Grosvenor, and afterwards by Messers Gould and Stephenson. It is now not worked and as it is being used as a "tip" for rubbish, it will soon be filled up Which neatly takes you back to one of Parkies earlier questions!So it seems the photographs are of the brickpit by Hillidge Road, so back over to our resident "house detectives"!

grumpytramp · Post by **grumpytramp** » Tue 04 May, 2010 10:55 pm

The snippet snatched from Google Books!

Si · Post by Si » Tue 04 May, 2010 11:07 pm

So now we're waiting for Parksider to find a photo on Leodis of that little stretch of terraced houses on Jack Lane to wrap up the mystery!!!

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Tue 04 May, 2010 11:11 pm

grumpytramp wrote: So it seems the photographs are of the brickpit by Hillidge Road, so back over to our resident "house detectives"! There's no beating you Sir! great stuff GT.I agree 100% because having scoured Leodis for a piccy of the terrace of back to backs that sits on the north side of this quarry and is about 26 houses long, I can't find one.Nor are there any of Turkey Street at the back of these backs.BUT from the right hand side on the Godfrey map there are three backs before a narrow break (not a toilet block break) which may be a ginnel.On your picture there are also three backs before a step down between roofs which co-incides exactly with the break on the map.So enough to declare the picture as the Hillidge Road works with a Terrace of back to backs on Jack Lane in the background.(Now which idiot suggested Hunslet Carr and Burmantofts before checking the terrace in the piccy and on the map......)

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Tue 04 May, 2010 11:16 pm

[quotenick="grumpytramp"] grumpytramp wrote: Quote: It is now not worked and as it is being used as a "tip" for rubbish, it will soon be filled up Needing a quick change of subject it would be fascinating to re-dig this spot wouldn't it!! Topical given the digging up leeds thread, but directly relevant. Plenty of marble cod bottles, poison bottles, stone jars and whatever in there??Today it's a light ind. estate with a central drive.Let's have a secret Leeds dig one weekend through the driveway and down, then it's off to the Mulberry, Station, Blooming Rose etc......

Si · Post by Si » Tue 04 May, 2010 11:17 pm

Excellent detective work, and great fun! Cheers, Parksider and Grumpy Tramp!!!

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Tue 04 May, 2010 11:19 pm

grumpytramp wrote: 5. The brick lined square (ish) shaft in the Boyles photograph (taken according to Leodis on 11/08/1943) is clearly complete and at or very near to original ground level (judging by the grass and glimpse of wooden fence in the RHS corner). In the Gould and Stevenson's quarry the shaft is broken into at the surface Any thoughts on why these shafts??

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Tue 04 May, 2010 11:21 pm

Si wrote: Excellent detective work, and great fun! Cheers, Parksider and Grumpy Tramp!!! Well you did a great job of knocking down the Hunslet Carr and Boyle's theories so.....GT - Gold (as always)SI - SilverME - Bronze......

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 04 May, 2010 11:32 pm

Possibly a silly question but one I don't recall having been answered - is Quarry Hill so named because of the nearby quarry off York Road or, is there another origin?

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Wed 05 May, 2010 9:41 am

chameleon wrote: Possibly a silly question but one I don't recall having been answered - is Quarry Hill so named because of the nearby quarry off York Road or, is there another origin? I dunno Kam but the flood plain of the Aire finishes and the land rises at quarry hill as does the slopes of the valley that Lady Beck cuts through (most markedly the rise above Mabgate). Given the town of leeds was essentially at the other side of this rise in the land, I assume it was the best place (i.e. not built on) to quarry stone from once they started to use it comprehensively for building purposes. The piccy of the bell pit in the calls also was commented on in terms of the old town being built close to and on a lot of iron and coal pits, and I assume clay pits too!! Whatever the extractive industry they won't have wanted, or had the efficient means to drag the stuff far.......