The Building of the Leeds Infrastructure

[Jogon]

For blakeyhttp://youtu.be/ECPSVcxoZPc

[iansmithofotley]

Hi everyone, I have tried to upload ten photographs of Thruscross in 1989 but I have struggled. I must be doing something wrong as only one has uploaded. The photograph shown is too big. I apologise.Ian        

[iansmithofotley]

Hi chameleon,As I said, I tried to post ten photographs and I thought that they would all appear in the one post. I managed to do the one which is shown, but I didn't know how to add others to the same post. I am using Safari on an iMac.I tried to delete the post and the photograph, with an apology, but I was only able to delete the 'text' in the post and didn't know how to remove the photograph, so I just changed the text. The photograph is too big anyway.As you can see, I am not very good with computers and I struggle to do anything. The ten photographs were 6" x 4" and I scanned them on to my iMac. They appear in the 'Documents' section and that is where I uploaded them from. I didn't realise that I could get them from the 'Documents' application. I have also put them on Photobucket where I thought that they would be 're-sized' and then I could upload them from there but I failed when I tried to do thatThank you for your interest.Ian P.S. - I have now uploaded the photographs to flickr, so they are available on there under my username.

[BLAKEY]

Jogon wrote: For blakeyhttp://youtu.be/ECPSVcxoZPc A very very good public warning film indeed - it puts the message across clearly and convincingly and is well produced.

[Si]

I don't have any pictures of the construction of Thruscross dam, but this shows Holy Trinity church at West End as the waters slowly engulfed it, c.1966. Note the slates have been removed - presumably the bell(s) and stained glass were also saved.    

[Si]

This older photo shows the church in it's setting with Blakey's bridge in the distance.

[Si]

An atmospheric shot of the soon to be lost valley.

[iansmithofotley]

Hi Si,I am familiar with that photograph of the church surrounded by water. My ex-next door neighbour, David Alred, wrote a book entitled 'Washburn Valley Yesterday' - 'A Pictorial Record of Life in a Dales Valley'. The picture of the church is on the front cover of the book and also on page nine inside the book. Some of these pictures, above, look as though they are from the same source as the book.David lived next door to me from 1977 until about 2004, when he, and his wife Joan, moved to Burley in Wharfedale. The book is a wonderful read, and has lots of fascinating pictures, all about the Washburn Valley and the people that lived there.There is also a similar looking book, but it is all about our town, it is called "Otley and Menston' - 'A Glimpse of the Past', written by Elise Brumfitt. Both books were printed by a company called Smith Settle, Ilkley Road, Otley. If you have not seen these books, they are of great interest to local people like us.I took a photograph in 1989, during a drought, which shows the ruins of the church (which was demolished but alot of the stone is still there) and the bridge behind it. I will have an attempt at posting it.I may have mentioned this before but when we used to sail at Thruscross, we used to get walkers come to the sailing club, enquiring about the 'sunken village of West End'. We used to tell them where it was and point out to them that when it was really windy, with waves on the reservoir, you could still hear the church bell ringing as it moved about under the water. We never told them that the buildings in the village had all been demolished. They were always fascinated by the story/lie.Ian    

[iansmithofotley]

Hi everyone,Here is another picture of West End, in 1989,Ian    

[Jogon]

I'd heard that storey