Scrapyards

[kango]

The links obviously wrong,Jims problem is that he keeps getting page not found errors.

[jim]

Ah!..........light dawns........I can find the tram without problem, I've been looking for a scrapyard with Kango's link, and run into problems stated. (puts on Eccles' voice) Anybody seen a scrapyard?

[Phill_dvsn]

Methnks this is the correct link you guys need for Parksiders post http://snipurl.com/1fueo0    

[jim]

Many thanks Phill, just the job!Looking at the photos all together, I think this is probably the NCB Waterloo Colliery staithes at the Easy Road/South Accomodation Road/Cross Green Lane junction. {CORRECTION BELOW } The goods shed, Road Motors workshop, and canteen of Hunslet East Goods Yard can be seen in the background of two of the pictures, and the South Accommodation Road bridge over the River Aire and the long-gone petrol station to the north-east of the bridge appear in another. To help with orientation, the first picture displayed by Phill's link is looking south-east. The terraces of houses are the Fewstons {CORRECTION BELOW}.    

[jim]

Looking at these pictures again, I do not think that this is a scrapyard. It is certainly the railway coal staithes, and still apparently in use for that purpose.The trams (three Horsfields nos 184, 205, and 236 side by side, and Feltham no581 slightly away from them) have no trucks or bogies, and that is where the profit is in scrapping them. The bodies have been carefully mounted on timber baulks - note how the Horsefields are in a staggered row to allow access to the vestibule entrances.There is no evidence of any other scrap materials, other than the remains shown where the photo is of the final demise of these bodies. Under the circumstances, I would suggest that the tram bodies have been purchased or otherwise acquired for storage, shelter,or similar purpose, and having outlived that purpose are being disposed of on site.    

[jim]

Oops! Right area, but slightly too far north in my identification. The staithes are the ex-NER ones in the north west corner of Hunslet East Yard, immediately south of Knowsthorpe Crescent, and the houses are the Bridgewaters/Falmouths. The yard is that of Joseph Standish, does any reader know what business he was in?Well, I was only about two hundred yards out!    

[Richard A Thackeray]

buffaloskinner wrote: Was the old Hunslet one Harry Carrs? I seem to recall he had a car over the entrance. He was at the top of Kidacre Street (think it was called that up there?) near the junction with Leathley Road

[The Parksider]

jim wrote: I knew several Hunslet scrapyards very well........ but when I try to access this photo my laptop says "bad link" Help! Oh dear!!How have I the cheek to come on here after all that.Anyway it's a great tram shot at Crossgates isn't it and when Phil gave the proper link it's a great coalyard, and further on a superb photo of the miggy railway and miggy tramway crossing with miggy new pit in the background and what about the tram outside Leeds Meat Market.You all remember passing that with yer mums as toddlersThere's plenty of books with old Leeds piccies, but some of the private collections now comimg to light - BEYOND Leodis are magnifique!!

[The Parksider]

buffaloskinner wrote: Was the old Hunslet one Harry Carrs? I seem to recall he had a car over the entrance. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thanoz/5085422791/I think I have the right link here for the scrapyard with the car over the entrance.Please let me know if it ends up being a Tram B.S.

[jim]

Hi Parksider. The scrapyard in the picture you have posted was probably Autowrex at the junction of York Street and Marsh Lane, opposite the entrance to the Marsh Lane Goods Yard. Not Hunslet then. At one time there were Edwardian dressed "Lady and Gentleman" dummies in it. The car was still there in the early 1950s to my knowledge. A faint memory is that I think that I read somewhere that at an earlier time there were two old cars displayed above this gateway.