The Brackenwood Estate, north Leeds......

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 07 Apr, 2012 12:49 am

Slightly off topic but related to the area I was wondering what happens to the water in the lake in Gledhow Valley Woods as there is a stream running into the lake but there seems to be no outflow on a Google map. This link should bring up the map http://g.co/maps/g8dxtI don't know the area and it's possible that I've never been there so I don't know what happens to the lake water. Surely it does not just evaporate away!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sat 07 Apr, 2012 1:05 am

The lake empties in the Southern end through a series of silt traps, and barred overflows herehttp://g.co/maps/7rys4It goes underground parallel with Gledhow Valley Road until it emerged a little past the spa bath and ran through the back gardens on Gledhow Valley Road, you can see the bridge it ran under Wellhouse Drive herehttp://g.co/maps/4yyu4If you take a look on Leodis there are countless photos of the lake under construction, the overflow, and culvert being built (I think around 1937 ish)That was until about three years ago, there was a big pipe ready to culvert that section underground also. We took a look down that culvert, we had an initial inspection and decided it was worth photographing, but it coincided with the time that madman was tampering with the overflow valves and trying to drain the lake in the dead of night! The manholes got increasingly heavier boulders put on top each time he struck. In the end we gave up on it for the time being. It was too hot having just been in the Y.E.P also Slaphead Spiderman goes into the depths of darkest Gledhow lol So the next place the stream comes out into the open now is where it joins Sheepscar Beck near the New Roscoe!

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 07 Apr, 2012 1:19 pm

Cheers Phill. Your help is much appreciated. You say "So the next place the stream comes out into the open now is where it joins Sheepscar Beck near the New Roscoe!". I took some photos on March 28 2012 of the Meanwood Beck in that area. This one shows an inflow into the beck close to the Plumb Center but as that is a bit further away than the New Roscoe I would guess that it is not the water from Gledhow Lake.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sat 07 Apr, 2012 1:28 pm

Leodian wrote: Cheers Phill. Your help is much appreciated. You say "So the next place the stream comes out into the open now is where it joins Sheepscar Beck near the New Roscoe!". I took some photos on March 28 2012 of the Meanwood Beck in that area. This one shows an inflow into the beck close to the Plumb Center but as that is a bit further away than the New Roscoe I would guess that it is not the water from Gledhow Lake. Oh yes that little portal, it's a dead end at the end of the road these days, a small pipe discharges a trickle of water into it, from where I have no idea.It was at one time the outflow of a mill pond and weir in that area. The mill pond was fed from the Gipton beck and emptied into Sheepscar beck, I've gone into some detail about it with maps further down this page herehttp://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=2958

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 07 Apr, 2012 1:41 pm

Thanks again Phill. I occasionally still look at your superb Sheepscar Beck thread. Its photos taken at beck level convey the scene much better than surface views looking down onto the beck that I've taken over the last year or so.

Suvi · Post by **Suvi** » Sat 07 Apr, 2012 9:51 pm

did they ever catch the person who was messing with the lake, we think it was the same guy who was destroying the walkways and pushing the benches over, really soul destroying, then it thankfully just stoppedI take it the hunters lodge area is an overflow area, doesn't stop the area down the bottom before the road rises to meet roundhay road flooding from time to time though

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sat 07 Apr, 2012 10:07 pm

Suvi wrote: did they ever catch the person who was messing with the lake, we think it was the same guy who was destroying the walkways and pushing the benches over, really soul destroying, then it thankfully just stoppedI take it the hunters lodge area is an overflow area, doesn't stop the area down the bottom before the road rises to meet roundhay road flooding from time to time though If I remember correctly it said in the paper the Police were aware of who was responsible and had 'spoken to him' By all accounts he was a bit of a one man army intent on turning the woods back to their natural state...No lake, walkways, benches e.t.c. He was well know locally and made no secret of his contempt for how the woods were being managed these days apparently.I don't think they had concrete proof it was him as in C.C.T.V evidence or witnesses as he struck in the dead of night, but him being spoken to was probably enough to stop it as it hasn't happened since. We covered the lake being drained on S.L when it happened, perhaps someone can find the old thread and link it with this one

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sun 08 Apr, 2012 9:16 am

Here's a web page about the lake been drainedhttp://newsfeed.leedsvirtualnewsroom.co.uk/2010_04_16_archive.html

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Mon 21 May, 2012 7:58 pm

Gledhow trivia:-How many of you wondered why the wall was different herehttp://g.co/maps/4bq59 ?Just me then.Anyway it is because in Nov 1939 they built an Air Raid Precaution post there.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 21 May, 2012 8:04 pm

Most interesting Jogon, I never knew that and have passed many times, thanks for posting. It's funny because I added a link to that very same wall when Leo posted the crumbling sandstone wall on North Street only last month. http://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messag ... D=3911I've always thought that odd bit of wall was a blocked off entrance to the lodge. Shame about the lodge been stripped of slates too, I saw the rogues doing it but thought they were legit roofers at the time