Tunnels from City Station

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 2:42 pm

The tunnel ran to the left where the Queens hall basement is built today. The remains of the high dam can still be seen underneath the dark arches.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 2:46 pm

The remains of the high dam from under the arches. Timber & stones were used to control the flow into the Kings mill

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 2:50 pm

A picture where the mill goit re-entered back into the river Aire near to Leeds bridge circa 1891

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 3:04 pm

The only visible remains today on the waterfront are this 'Kings mill' pad stone embedded into the retaining wall near to Leeds bridge. Lets hope they finally get to work on building Criterion towers on the tram shed car park. The foundation dig should uncover any remaining medievil tunnel if it's still exists

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 15 Mar, 2007 3:08 pm

For a while i'd been thinking i've uncovered something like Ro-mans long lost Liverpool tunnels untill i found this page here http://www.leedsphilandlit.org.uk/publications.html & found out the proffesionals had been there 20yr's earlier! DOH :-/

dERvXeroX · Post by **dERvXeroX** » Fri 30 Mar, 2007 8:34 pm

Elvis wrote: There's a whole network of tunnels from the Dental Hospital through to the Millenium Square. They're used by staff at the LGI. I've been under millennium square. there's a canteen, kitchen, storerooms and a number of dressing rooms. I think I saw a thin conduit leading toward the civic hall carrying data cables. Thats all I could find.

bigpants · Post by **bigpants** » Fri 30 Mar, 2007 8:42 pm

dERvXeroX wrote: Elvis wrote: There's a whole network of tunnels from the Dental Hospital through to the Millenium Square. They're used by staff at the LGI. I've been under millennium square. there's a canteen, kitchen, storerooms and a number of dressing rooms. I think I saw a thin conduit leading toward the civic hall carrying data cables. Thats all I could find. having worked at the LGI for a number of years as estates officer i can confirm that there are no tunnels leading from dental hospital or any other bit of the LGI to Millenium square. there are plenty of tunnels within the hospital complex though.

jf · Post by jf » Sat 31 Mar, 2007 12:58 am

The hospital tunnels extend up through the University as far as the Parkinson building, linking with some of the halls of residence and various university buildings.The parts under the main university courtyard were large corridors with lots of pipes, whilst other parts were somewhat smaller (I think to get up to the Parkinson bit you had to more or less shuffle on your stomach alongside a couple of large pipes, so more a conduit than a tunnel at that point!). I explored a lot of these tunnels more than a decade ago with a group of friends (a lot of whom were students) until a bunch of them got caught down there and were subsequently reprimanded by the University (a carpeting from their heads of department). I think it was treated quite seriously because there had been some history of people using the tunnels to get into University buildings to steal things like computers.Various maps were drawn at the time of this system, and of some of the other university service tunnel systems unconnected to the main network. Some parts were gated or alarmed, e.g. no access was available at the hospital end as an alarm system was triggered if you got too close. The tunnels continued for some distance in this direction. I think security was tightened after our incursion, and I suspect there will be CCTV all over the place now.

big s · Post by **big s** » Tue 17 Apr, 2007 9:04 pm

under the lgi old buildings there is a tunnel which heads toward city square i should know ,i was down there today .after so long the tunnel is bricked up .diffrent and newer brick than the tunnel walls

bigpants · Post by **bigpants** » Wed 18 Apr, 2007 6:51 pm

big s wrote: under the lgi old buildings there is a tunnel which heads toward city square i should know ,i was down there today .after so long the tunnel is bricked up .diffrent and newer brick than the tunnel walls Hi big S, dunno if you worked there back when i did - where abouts is the bricked up tunnel you refer to?