Leeds river aire bridges

Richard A Thackeray · Post by **Richard A Thackeray** » Mon 19 Jul, 2010 3:36 pm

Leeds Hippo wrote: Nice one - I've not seen this before Oh it's a lovely structure, & still in daily use.There is a modern aquaduct running alongside it, for the bigger vessels, but leisure-craft still cross it.I pass by it everyday when I'm going to/coming home from workIt's located along Ferry Lane, which is just off the A638 (Aberford-Wakefield 'Turn-Pike' Road), which (at the section in question) runs from jct30/M62 into WakefieldOS ref = SE 355230DigressingSadly, one of the other buildings mentioned on that 'StanleyHistory' site is gone, even if its out-buildings still partially surviveNewlands Hall, with reputed links to the Knights Templarshttp://www.stanleyhistoryonline.com/I run through the Estate, & metaphorically 'through' the front-door of the old Hall, several days a week

Si · Post by Si » Mon 19 Jul, 2010 4:32 pm

Leeds Hippo wrote: Si wrote: Sorry to be pedantic, but this bridge isn't a true suspension bridge, but a through-arch bridge. A suspension bridge has the roadway suspended by chains or cables hung from cables draped from towers at either end (eg: Humber Bridge, Golden Gate, Brooklyn Bridge, etc.) The world's first suspension bridge is Thomas Telford's Menai Strait Bridge of 1825. Classic through-arch bridges include the Tyne Bridge and Sydney Harbour Bridge. Thanks SiMy mistake - though still pretty impressive for the age. It certainly is, Hippo. Like you said, it looks very modern to our eyes, so must have seemed amazing when first constructed. It is a sort of suspension bridge, in that the roadway is "suspended" from the arch.

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Mon 19 Jul, 2010 8:40 pm

well if you are going to mention bridges around stanley where I live<G> then the bridge on Canal Lane deserves a mention.It was built over a now disused rail track and is one of the widest as it was built wide enough for 2 carriages to pass each other!Many people don't realise how wide it is as there is a house built inside one of the walls of the bridge this partially obscuring the original brickwork from the road.

Richard A Thackeray · Post by **Richard A Thackeray** » Mon 19 Jul, 2010 9:59 pm

Steve Jones wrote: well if you are going to mention bridges around stanley where I live<G> then the bridge on Canal Lane deserves a mention.It was built over a now disused rail track and is one of the widest as it was built wide enough for 2 carriages to pass each other!Many people don't realise how wide it is as there is a house built inside one of the walls of the bridge this partially obscuring the original brickwork from the road. That's my 'neck of the woods'I lived in/around Stanley since I was about 2, until almost 38(was born at Lofthouse Gate)Canal Lane is even more of a co-incidence, as our previous house was at the other end - near what used to be Ernest Sheards shop, if you remember that (& next door to where that chap strangled his wife a few years ago)I remember when the bridge was 'open', as in you could walk through itThe 'house on the bridge' so to speak belongs (or did anyway) to one of our Pharmacists (she's left now, so I don't see her)

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Tue 20 Jul, 2010 9:02 am

The first bridge in Leeds over the Aire - Leeds Bridge 1849 (before the present bridge)Read somewhere that the first time Leeds Bridge was mentioned was back in the 13th century when a murder was commited there.

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Tue 20 Jul, 2010 9:11 am

Wellington Bridge 1832 (think this was renamed Victoria Bridge)

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Tue 20 Jul, 2010 2:03 pm

RichT wrote: Only a few years before the Aquaduct was built at Stanley for the 'Aire & Calder Navigation Canalhttp://www.stanleyhistoryonline.com/Stanley-Ferry-History.html Thanks for the link to Stanley Village site.As a 15 yr old straight from school in Leeds m first jobwas as a trainee clerk at Stanley stn.Not many photos to be found about it.Will add my comments when I have got a few long forgotten facts written down.

Si · Post by Si » Wed 21 Jul, 2010 11:37 am

Leeds Hippo wrote: Wellington Bridge 1832 (think this was renamed Victoria Bridge) This is Wellington Bridge in 1954 (Leodis image) with Bean Ing Mills beside it, as seen in your picture, Hippo. Victoria Bridge is where Neville Street crosses the river between the station and Leeds Bridge.

Si · Post by Si » Wed 21 Jul, 2010 11:44 am

Victoria Bridge, built in 1838 by George Leather (again!) Leodis pic.

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Wed 21 Jul, 2010 11:50 am

Si wrote: Victoria Bridge, built in 1838 by George Leather. (Leodis pic.) Thanks for clarification Si.