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Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Wed 18 Jan, 2012 11:11 am

Good detailed photo on geo and link to close up of tiles in text belowhttp://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2717468

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Wed 18 Jan, 2012 11:12 am

buffaloHow do you capture and post link to googlestreetview?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 18 Jan, 2012 12:03 pm

Jogon wrote: buffaloHow do you capture and post link to googlestreetview? Hi Jogon. This usually works for me. When in Street View there is (on the left) a small chain symbol. Click on that and it brings up (among other things) a www type link (its Uniform Resource Location, URL). Copying that and then paste it into a post will usually work and if the link in the post is clicked it will bring up the Street View scene. It usually works OK but I like to check the link has been copied right by doing a test into a web address locator before I put it in a post. There is a short URL facility in Street View but I sometimes have problems with that. I hope this is of help.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Thu 19 Jan, 2012 9:12 pm

leo thankswill try thathttp://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=vicar+lane+leeds&hl=en&ll=53.800616,-1.537501&spn=0.000009,0.003342&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=14.432157,27.37793&vpsrc=6&hnear=Vicar+Ln,+Leeds,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=53.800088,-1.539543&panoid=4iH4KV9od1UTMwOcok3hIA&cbp=12,307.76,,0,-12.29

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Thu 19 Jan, 2012 9:31 pm

Cheers Jogon. Glad that you got it to work. It is a very useful facility.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sat 21 Jan, 2012 3:20 pm

Aspects of Leeds 3, the Lupton Family."..yet the family's famous enterprises are anonymous. Rothwell's Parade black and white Tudor style shops, demolished for the inner ring road at North St. The other enterprise survives.The Grand Arcade built 1897 on the site of the original Lupton Mill. Initially two parallel and interconnecting rows of shops but the northernmost one was converted into the Tower Cinema 1920.The Arcade is most renowned for its automaton clock, made by the famous local firm of Wm/ Potts and desribed by the as 'the greatest horological feat of that century'.It was a Lupton family tradition that the design of the clock was based on one seen by Arthur on a business trip to Nuremberg.."http://youtu.be/ZBXO_Fee4Zg perhaps?

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Sat 21 Jan, 2012 3:39 pm

Oh how lovely! A bit older than ours too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Frauenkirche

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Sat 21 Jan, 2012 4:00 pm

Jogon wrote: P.34, City Lights by Keith Waterhouse(Writing of circa 1936 upon condition that his mother took him to see either Thorntons Arcade & Clock)..."or, preferably, the Grand Arcade where, above an inscription from Macbeth, "Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day", two knights with battleaxes would bash out the hour, whereupon the doors of Windsor Castle...would creak open, and out would whirr a saluting guardsman followed by the bowing figure of a kilted Scotsman, and Irishman with his shillelagh, a Canadian trapper, and an obsequious Indian, the tablea being completed by the cockerel which flapped its wings and crowed like the one in the Pathe newsreel" So the inscription has been dumbed down a tad and the clock doesnt work and the figures aren't moving. Looks like Waterhouse cribbed his description from an old newspaper:http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bi ... ds+clock--

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sat 21 Jan, 2012 4:59 pm

The Nuremberg mechanical clock installed 1506 still works.And pulls in the crowds.'Ours' doesn't...! There was a whinge on leodis comments about the Council not wanting to "pay for it's restoration/upkeep". Does the Council own Grand Arcade or is it a private business?

WiggyDiggy · Post by **WiggyDiggy** » Sat 21 Jan, 2012 6:43 pm

Santiago's in the GA offers an excellent chance to peep at the clock - simply visit and go to the toilets and you walk straight past the clock inners. (Its an excellent venue for music too)Rio's Leeds, Sweeney Todds and the Stone Roses Bar were also good to go but a steady decline in the quality of the music and and increase in the cost of the drinks (they were serving 'Vodkat' at one point as Vodka) meant all eventually closed.There was another nightclub in there as well, opposite Rios, but can't remember what that was called....