Where is this Google satellite view showing?

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 04 May, 2012 9:53 am

LeoI had heard mention of the Red Road before, rummaged thru books. Keith Waterhouse born (1929)Hunslet then later moved to Halton Moor. A self-proclaimed 'odd kid' who, like a cat finding it's way back to it's first house, hankered after "Hunslet" but didn't have a map of Leeds.On his brother's bike (Halton Moor then, new, estate) :- "..Keeping the clouds of smog (which he took to be Hunslet) firmly in view, I established I had taken a simple wrong turning.By wheeling right at the end of Cartmell Drive instead of pushing straight through the self-evidently rural lanes I found myself bowling along a good firm lane of crushed cinders known as Black Road, which led, through a gate proclaiming PRIVATE ROAD, into a good firm lane of packed red sand known equally appropriately as Red Road. ...led to Easy Road..into South Accommodation Rd which took me across the river Aire and into Hunslet Rd to righ and Low Rd to the left. I was home." [psphoto tip (Buffalo taught me this):- most computers have a 'Snipping tool' function. Click start + type that in start search. Then if you're in google or whatever, you click that and save as capture or whatever. The images are smaller/less pixies than my photos so they load ok.So if in google, start, snip tool then click drag + it's done.I'll do this next ]

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 04 May, 2012 9:58 am

snipping tooled

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 04 May, 2012 10:01 am

Leodian wrote: I do though recall there was a railway line (probably single track) that small train engines used to run to and from at least the sewage works. Do you remember this line in use Leodian?http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/5797134120/

jim · Post by **jim** » Fri 04 May, 2012 2:31 pm

Was the "small line" that Leodian refers to Yorkshire Water Authority's 2'0" narrow gauge system that served Knostrop Purification Works? This line was operated by two small steam locos from around 1908/10. The steam locos were replaced around 1921 by two ex-War Department armoured petrol mechanical machines which were in use up to February 1980. One is preserved at the Armley Mills Industrial Museum and another at the N.R.M. York.A Kay petrol loco was added to the stock in 1935, and a Ruston and Hornsby diesel in 1960. The latter survives in private hands.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 04 May, 2012 7:07 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: Leodian wrote: I do though recall there was a railway line (probably single track) that small train engines used to run to and from at least the sewage works. Do you remember this line in use Leodian?http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/5797134120/ Hi Phill.I don't recall the bridge. Coming to play/explore from Osmondthorpe I likely never went further than Skelton Grange Power Station. The small train engine(s) I recall were seen to run from (or near to) Red Road though I cannot be definite if they ran as far as the power station. Shame it's all vague now. How I wish now that had a camera when a kid, though I doubt I would have used one as exploration would have been the thing. And anyhow I would always be able to remember what I saw (oh no I didn't!).

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 04 May, 2012 7:09 pm

jim wrote: Was the "small line" that Leodian refers to Yorkshire Water Authority's 2'0" narrow gauge system that served Knostrop Purification Works? This line was operated by two small steam locos from around 1908/10. The steam locos were replaced around 1921 by two ex-War Department armoured petrol mechanical machines which were in use up to February 1980. One is preserved at the Armley Mills Industrial Museum and another at the N.R.M. York.A Kay petrol loco was added to the stock in 1935, and a Ruston and Hornsby diesel in 1960. The latter survives in private hands. Cheers Jim. They certainly sound like they could be what I recall seeing, particularly if they ran where I remember.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 04 May, 2012 7:19 pm

[quotenick="Leodian"] jim wrote: They certainly sound like they could be what I recall seeing, particularly if they ran where I remember. Beep Beep! They look like something from the St Trinians film Two armoured petrol works locomotives outside the loco shed, built in 1918 for military service in the first world war which ended before they saw action.

jim · Post by **jim** » Fri 04 May, 2012 8:16 pm

Nice view of the engine shed next to Knowsthorpe Lane (left of picture) Phill.