A stone pillar-like object next to King Lane.

[Cardiarms]

boundary stone?

[Leodian]

Cardiarms wrote: boundary stone? I had wondered if it was that but I have looked at old maps and there is no boundary marker noted there (unlike for example the old metal 'Borough of Leeds' boundary marker at the King Lane/Nursery Lane junction that I have an older thread about).

[Leodian]

Steve Jones wrote: I must admit that looking at it,the only thing it reminded me of was a mounting block for horses.Not all of them had steps. That is another good suggestion. Unless it is known about there is probably no way of knowing if it was ever used for anything elsewhere (with or without other stones). It just looks like it may have had some purpose at some time.

[The Parksider]

Leodian wrote: Steve Jones wrote: I must admit that looking at it,the only thing it reminded me of was a mounting block for horses.Not all of them had steps. That is another good suggestion. Unless it is known about there is probably no way of knowing if it was ever used for anything elsewhere (with or without other stones). It just looks like it may have had some purpose at some time. I'd guess gatepost as has been said.There's a lot of upright stone pillars left on their own, sometimes in pairs that were fateposts. Up dib lane there's a pair and they have been left elsewhere.If you can find an old map with field boundaries on I'd guess that the post corresponds with a field boundary and if so it will have been a gatepost.I just wonder how, when our victorian ancestors were such good civil engineers, they found the task of removing gateposts unpalatable?

[geoffb]

This is a gate post. King Lane in the 1950s and early 60s had dry stone walls running down both sides from Lingfield Approach to the Ring Road, although delapidated there were gate posts standing on both sides. There was a stream running down the left hand side of King Lane, going down the hill. The dry stone walls were removed when the road was widened. dont know why this has been left

[Leodian]

geoffb wrote: This is a gate post. King Lane in the 1950s and early 60s had dry stone walls running down both sides from Lingfield Approach to the Ring Road, although delapidated there were gate posts standing on both sides. There was a stream running down the left hand side of King Lane, going down the hill. The dry stone walls were removed when the road was widened. dont know why this has been left Thanks geoffb (and The Parksider). I now know what it was.Interesting about the stream as the grassed area where King Lane meets the Ring Road on that side does get very wet and often has standing water.

[LS1]

Wonder where the stream actually goes thereafter then as the other side of the ringroad is an upward incline so the stream could only go towards West park or towards Roundhay along the ring road.

[LS1]

Just to substantiate the wall theory.. here is a pic from Leodis captioned..."21st December 1944. In the distance, Alwoodley Crags Plantation which later came under Leeds Interim Preservation Order, 1945. On the right hand side a parade of shops include a Post Office, Alwoodley Motor Co. garage (cars can be seen). A bus stop with people queing. Going north, the next turning on the right is The Avenue."

[geoffb]

Leodian wrote: geoffb wrote: This is a gate post. King Lane in the 1950s and early 60s had dry stone walls running down both sides from Lingfield Approach to the Ring Road, although delapidated there were gate posts standing on both sides. There was a stream running down the left hand side of King Lane, going down the hill. The dry stone walls were removed when the road was widened. dont know why this has been left Thanks geoffb (and The Parksider). I now know what it was.Interesting about the stream as the grassed area where King Lane meets the Ring Road on that side does get very wet and often has standing water. A stream maybe an exaggeration, but there was a water flow when wet, probably acted as a land drain fron the field as was, uncut just like a fallow hay field. The stream did attract frogs, we used to get frog spawn from this stream.I thing it was culverted when the road was widened but it definitely joined up with an other water course by the ring road when it was single carriage way

[Leodian]

LS1 wrote: Just to substantiate the wall theory.. here is a pic from Leodis captioned..."21st December 1944. In the distance, Alwoodley Crags Plantation which later came under Leeds Interim Preservation Order, 1945. On the right hand side a parade of shops include a Post Office, Alwoodley Motor Co. garage (cars can be seen). A bus stop with people queing. Going north, the next turning on the right is The Avenue." A stream (un-named as far as I know) runs under King Lane from right to left in this view by the side of the now derelict Alwoodley Motors (that closed 2 or 3 years ago). The stream runs under the road at what is called Nanny Bridge, but I have never been able to find out why it is called that (I have asked that in the past in the Secret Leeds website but nobody knew). The bridge has what is clearly a very old (possibly original?) low wall next to the pavement on the right in that view. PS. Apart from part of a block of flats (Blackmoor Court) in the area in the bottom right and more trees in the area to the bottom left the view is still very recognisable. The area on the other side of the road opposite the garage was once a pinfold (a place where such as sheep and cows were temporarily kept) but there seems to be no sign of that now.