PUDSEY AIR RAID SHELTER

rehtnap · Post by **rehtnap** » Sat 29 May, 2010 10:27 pm

Dont know if anyone remembers the small airaid shelter at the junction of bankhouse lane and fartown in pudsey. i used to play in it as a boy before it was sealed up. it can just be seen in all the undergrowth.

Si · Post by Si » Tue 01 Jun, 2010 10:55 am

I was brought up around there (early 1960s), but don't remember the air-raid shelter. Sorry.

Si · Post by Si » Tue 01 Jun, 2010 3:51 pm

Where was/is the air-raid shelter on this view, Rehtnap? (Junction of Bankhouse Lane and Fartown - White Cross top left.)

rehtnap · Post by **rehtnap** » Wed 02 Jun, 2010 7:19 pm

hi you see the blue topped buildings and the carpark infront then in the green undergrowth between it and the road. if you look on the camera view you can just make out the concrete top of one of the entrances. it was only a small shelter with an entrance either end. im not sure if the main structure was demolished or just blocked off.

Si · Post by Si » Thu 03 Jun, 2010 10:00 am

This where you mean, Rehtnap?This view shows the western end of the shelter, with the Heights in the distance - the site of the coal pit discussed on your other thread, the Pudsey Air Vent.You seem to know the area well?

rehtnap · Post by **rehtnap** » Sat 05 Jun, 2010 1:41 pm

hi yes and if you look to the left you will see the other entrance just in the undergrowth. there was also a large concreted roofed brick building further down the road by the road that goes into fulneck school. it has a modern bus stop there now but used to look like a surface shelter or something like that. i lived in pudsey from 1964 just down the road on uppermoor. how many people remember the old stone built bookmakers oposite the tudor cafe and the row of cottages where the 2 later new houses are now. sorry the tudor resteraunt, was the transport cafe when i was young.west end cafe. it makes you feel old when you see a shop in a museum that i used to go shopping in with parents. remember illingworths on chapletown, a wonderfull stone floored shop now in the kirkstall museum.

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Sat 05 Jun, 2010 10:15 pm

rehtnap wrote: hi yes and if you look to the left you will see the other entrance just in the undergrowth. there was also a large concreted roofed brick building further down the road by the road that goes into fulneck school. it has a modern bus stop there now but used to look like a surface shelter or something like that. i lived in pudsey from 1964 just down the road on uppermoor. how many people remember the old stone built bookmakers oposite the tudor cafe and the row of cottages where the 2 later new houses are now. sorry the tudor resteraunt, was the transport cafe when i was young.west end cafe. it makes you feel old when you see a shop in a museum that i used to go shopping in with parents. remember illingworths on chapletown, a wonderfull stone floored shop now in the kirkstall museum. Hi rehtnap There was a building just like the one you remember this was on LittleMoor Road at the junction with Roker Lane at the side of the fish shop it was used has a bus stop untill it was knocked and the new bus shelter put in its place.I think this could have been a surface shelter in the past.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Sat 05 Jun, 2010 11:35 pm

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tilly · Post by **tilly** » Sun 06 Jun, 2010 3:09 pm

dogduke wrote: We had 'TheBlack Panther'in our midst years ago.Are you the Back ?Panther'? Hi dogduke i dont know if your question was ment for me if it was the answer is no.I have only been on for about eighteen months i was Sundowner then had to change to Tilly after a mix up with my password.

rehtnap · Post by **rehtnap** » Sun 06 Jun, 2010 9:55 pm

hi well i am panther backwards lol lol lol