Temple Newsam

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Wed 16 Jun, 2010 9:42 am

That Lawn Ponds was in a right state. I don't remember that, it must have been befroe my time.The one round the back of the house really doesn't seem to resonate with many people but it was a big part of my late childhood / early teens. I guess it wasn't there very long at all.

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Thu 17 Jun, 2010 9:28 pm

chameleon wrote: dogduke wrote: tilly wrote: Reginal Perrin wrote: LS1 wrote: YES YES!!! I'm not going mad!I Posted something about this ages ago and no-one remembered it at all. It was like in a small ampitheatre area affair and I'm sure it had some fish in it and maybe a fountain. It was behind the far car park as you drive in. Any ideas of any photos of it as I would love to see it. I reakon it was about 20 years ago it was removed. It was I'm sure in the area in red. That's exactly where it was and you can still see part of the curcular path. I remember a pool on the site of the running track the one on the left on the way up to Temple Newsam.We used to fish for stickle backs then get the tram back to town. The parking area on the left higher up the road from therunning track is known as Lawn Ponds car park There a dozen or so pics on Leodis, but all rectangular (the pond, not just the pictures!!)http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... ifier=6758 Hi chameleon the pond i was talking about was rectangular this is the same pond. It was a bit of a walk from Hunslet but if we had no money then walk we did how things have changed.I wonder if people will have legs in few a thousand years time .lol

Mr.73 · Post by **Mr.73** » Thu 17 Jun, 2010 10:43 pm

Funny, i was just thinking about this pond not long ago. The pond i remember as a kid was rectangular, round the back of the house. It was brick built (walled above ground level) and had sloping concrete tiles all round the edge of it, i think with a couple of little overflows for water..Went for a walk there the other week for the first time in years and its gone..Would love to see some pics

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 17 Jun, 2010 11:25 pm

Mr.73 wrote: Funny, i was just thinking about this pond not long ago. The pond i remember as a kid was rectangular, round the back of the house. It was brick built (walled above ground level) and had sloping concrete tiles all round the edge of it, i think with a couple of little overflows for water..Went for a walk there the other week for the first time in years and its gone..Would love to see some pics See above - lots on leodis.

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Fri 18 Jun, 2010 10:55 am

Mr.73 wrote: Funny, i was just thinking about this pond not long ago. The pond i remember as a kid was rectangular, round the back of the house. It was brick built (walled above ground level) and had sloping concrete tiles all round the edge of it, i think with a couple of little overflows for water..Went for a walk there the other week for the first time in years and its gone..Would love to see some pics Hi Mr73 The pond you remember is not the one in on the Leodis site this was not near the house but a few hundred yards down the main road.

slw · Post by **slw** » Fri 18 Jun, 2010 10:59 am

Grandad would often take us to Temple Newsam for our Saturday morning bike ride (in the '80s) and I remember the pond been a stop off point. It was raised up with a dirt path round which went all the way round the pond. (From the picture it looks like some of the path has now been covered up.)It used to be a popular spots and my brother used to love going to watch people sailing their boats. My brother would natter grandads life out asking for a boat and a fishing net ! I can remember it being there until the late '80s / early '90s but not after that.

stevenpul · Post by **stevenpul** » Fri 18 Jun, 2010 12:42 pm

I'm 29 and I remember the pond at the back of the house, when i was a kid my dad took me her and the pond at that time was half filled with dirt and weeds, I do remember it because it was the first and last time I saw it after that the next time i went it was filled in bah!. The reason I remember it was because one of the people there said it was where someone dumped a body she's now known as the "White Lady" I'ts my first post here but i've read on here for a while now. so hello all

Si · Post by Si » Fri 18 Jun, 2010 12:43 pm

Hello Stevenpul. Welcome to the site.

Post by **chameleon** » Fri 18 Jun, 2010 1:15 pm

stevenpul wrote: I'm 29 and I remember the pond at the back of the house, when i was a kid my dad took me her and the pond at that time was half filled with dirt and weeds, I do remember it because it was the first and last time I saw it after that the next time i went it was filled in bah!. The reason I remember it was because one of the people there said it was where someone dumped a body she's now known as the "White Lady" I'ts my first post here but i've read on here for a while now. so hello all I think that is the 'Blue Lady', historically supposedly the ghost of the house.

stevenpul · Post by **stevenpul** » Fri 18 Jun, 2010 1:22 pm

I think that is the 'Blue Lady', historically supposedly the ghost of the house. There are two ghosts maybe more here one the white lady and the blue lady who I forget how she snuffed it now, who haunts the Blue Room.I found this in the webs :Temple Newsam is reported to be the most haunted house in Yorkshire, with the most famous ghost being Mary Ingram, commonly known as "the Blue lady", who in her life became deranged after an attack by highwaymen. Ghosts linked with the more famous residents of Temple Newsam include "the White lady": this is said to be the ghost of a Lady Jane Dudley née Grey. She was executed by Mary I