Burley Bar Stone - and the rest

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Sat 22 Sep, 2012 6:59 am

Caron wrote: All really interesting and educational not to mention pretty hard to remember!By the way, my mam used to have an account at Skyrack and Morley many years ago but don't know if it was a bank or building society. Hi Caron i think it was a building society.

simong · Post by **simong** » Sat 22 Sep, 2012 10:07 am

book wrote: What does Bar mean in this context? Eg Tingley Bar? Tingley Bar was more likely a toll bar where traffic paid to travel on what is now Bradford Road.

simong · Post by **simong** » Sat 22 Sep, 2012 10:26 am

Caron wrote: All really interesting and educational not to mention pretty hard to remember!By the way, my mam used to have an account at Skyrack and Morley many years ago but don't know if it was a bank or building society. It looks like it was a trustee savings bank, not a building society. It will have merged with the TSB in the 1970s.

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Sat 22 Sep, 2012 2:39 pm

simong wrote: Caron wrote: All really interesting and educational not to mention pretty hard to remember!By the way, my mam used to have an account at Skyrack and Morley many years ago but don't know if it was a bank or building society. It looks like it was a trustee savings bank, not a building society. It will have merged with the TSB in the 1970s. Sorry simong i was wrong .

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Sat 22 Sep, 2012 10:32 pm

Staying with Burley (but not bar stone), I have my grandparents Barnsley Permanent Building Society book for the mortgage they had on a 3 bedroomed house in Burley Wood Crescent, Leeds 4 in 1935.The mortgage was for £360 payable every month for 29yrs 11 months at the rate of £1.16.11. The yearly Fire Insurance Premium was due every January costing 4/3d and the year 1940 introduces a sticky page label re Air Raid Damage. Not one payment was missed and the final payment was made on 15/11/63.I wish I knew how to display the pages to you but I am pretty useless with a computer.Does anyone know where the Barnsley Permanent Building Society was in Leeds?

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Sat 22 Sep, 2012 11:56 pm

Went down again to look for the North Bar Stone. Definitely not behind the wall, that looks to be a bag of cement that has got wet and solidified.There is no place that looks similar to the picture posted of the guy laying it. There are a few options, though I wonder what people though of this. The facade http://goo.gl/maps/ONV9x could hide it (the orange and blue shop frontage, now painted white) though im not sure if this is period or a later addition, can someone confirm so we can perhaps rule it out?

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sun 23 Sep, 2012 2:13 pm

Oct 1980"Entrance" from Vicar Ln was down a flight of stairs - left of photo where Red Bus Stn joins taller one.Otherwise you walked down Lady Ln round the corner into it.So when disposed of to ?Ogden Properties the building must have been hacked around to create retail at street level Vicar Ln.The question is then whether the stone was at corner Lady Ln/Vicar Ln or by the (now removed) flight of stairs down at the former "Entrance".It might be behind the shop frontages.These all ought to be in the museum, I think. [ps Ctrl + buttons to magnify view, Ctrl - to go back]

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Sun 23 Sep, 2012 5:32 pm

It's likely to have been hidden behind the shop frontages I would guess. Nowhere else it can be!Shame it's obscured in the photo you posted there Jogon.

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Sun 23 Sep, 2012 8:25 pm

Someone send LCC an email and ask them where it has gone.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 12 Oct, 2012 11:38 am

North Bar Stone? [edit - doesn't match look of orig 30's pic]