Headingley Bleach Works

YorkshireViking · Post by **YorkshireViking** » Thu 24 Jan, 2013 3:20 pm

On my way home from work on my push bike I kept noticing these gate posts;http://goo.gl/maps/g2tsJCan see them better in aerial view;I thought it might have been an old farm track or gate into a field or something. But after a small amount of research I found out that it once was an old road leading from the old quarry (what is now round the back my old school, Scabby Abbey) to Headingley Bleach Works. Which once stood roughly where Haywoods now stands. You can follow the path of the old road for a few hundred meters, to where it comes to a stop where the school now stands. Joe

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Thu 24 Jan, 2013 4:00 pm

cannot see your pics

YorkshireViking · Post by **YorkshireViking** » Thu 24 Jan, 2013 4:10 pm

Ah, thanks for the heads-up, should be sorted now.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Thu 24 Jan, 2013 4:25 pm

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 24 Jan, 2013 5:36 pm

Jogon wrote: Yup What was wrong - pice vissible to me from time of posting???

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Thu 24 Jan, 2013 10:40 pm

chameleon wrote: Jogon wrote: Yup What was wrong - pice vissible to me from time of posting??? Same as Jogon, all I could see was photobucket in the places where the pics are now

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Thu 24 Jan, 2013 11:29 pm

uncle mick wrote: chameleon wrote: Jogon wrote: Yup What was wrong - pice vissible to me from time of posting??? Same as Jogon, all I could see was photobucket in the places where the pics are now That's strange. Like chameleon, I could also see the photos at the time the thread was posted.As my post earlier this evening was lost in the transfer to the new site, I'll repeat my thanks now to YorkshireViking for having the curiosity to do the research to find out more about these gateposts. I love to see snippets of information like this about places which are largely unnoticed and have become part of the landscape but which were part of Leeds' past.

Post by **chameleon** » Fri 25 Jan, 2013 11:01 am

uncle mick wrote: chameleon wrote: Jogon wrote: Yup What was wrong - pice vissible to me from time of posting??? Same as Jogon, all I could see was photobucket in the places where the pics are now Sounds like an intermittent issue with the photobucket hosting maybe.

YorkshireViking · Post by **YorkshireViking** » Fri 25 Jan, 2013 2:08 pm

"the case of the missing photos" was nothing more than me being a plonker; I had a clear out of my pic host and deleted the wrong ones.. Tasa wrote: As my post earlier this evening was lost in the transfer to the new site, I'll repeat my thanks now to YorkshireViking for having the curiosity to do the research to find out more about these gateposts. I love to see snippets of information like this about places which are largely unnoticed and have become part of the landscape but which were part of Leeds' past. No probs, glad you enjoyed the post! :-)I love local history, and discovering trails and paths etc. I'm going to look at these gate-posts differently from now on. I might even go down and explore it on Sunday. See what is left of the old road and quarry... If anything.

Si · Post by Si » Fri 25 Jan, 2013 4:48 pm

YorkshireViking wrote: "the case of the missing photos" was nothing more than me being a plonker; I had a clear out of my pic host and deleted the wrong ones.. Tasa wrote: As my post earlier this evening was lost in the transfer to the new site, I'll repeat my thanks now to YorkshireViking for having the curiosity to do the research to find out more about these gateposts. I love to see snippets of information like this about places which are largely unnoticed and have become part of the landscape but which were part of Leeds' past. No probs, glad you enjoyed the post! :-)I love local history, and discovering trails and paths etc. I'm going to look at these gate-posts differently from now on. I might even go down and explore it on Sunday. See what is left of the old road and quarry... If anything. There must be loads of these ghost gate-posts dotted around. Many must literally and metaphorically lead to an interesting Secret Leeds story...