Street View buildings

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Thu 07 Feb, 2013 11:53 am

salt 'n pepper wrote: I don't think it was demolished.They just removed the innards of the old Shaftesbury House and the walls of the building you see now is the outer shell of the one that has always been there.There's got to be one or two spooks on the loose in there. Some info about ithttp://www.greenhouseleeds.co.uk/construction- ... ouse-leeds

simong · Post by **simong** » Thu 07 Feb, 2013 2:19 pm

I've mentioned it before, but the bottom of Farsley Town Street is in 2008, the middle bit where all the shops are is in 2012 and where it becomes Old Road is 2008 again. I think it might be to do with the presence of advertisers.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Thu 07 Feb, 2013 3:00 pm

YorkshireViking wrote: Here's a good one; http://goo.gl/maps/IJv3Ahttp://goo.gl/maps/yiO8P I noticed that one of the street names in the image brought up through the second link is 'Lady Pit Lane'. I wonder if there used to be Lady Pit mine in that area? I tried a search of Secret Leeds but that brought up too many threads even with the better new search tool. Mind you, the Leodis website was even worse, as searching Lady Pit in Leeds & District brought up 36 pages of results and even narrowing the search down to Beeston still brought up 28 pages! I would be grateful if anyone knows if there was a Lady Pit and any brief information about it.

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Thu 07 Feb, 2013 4:15 pm

Leodian wrote: .....I wonder if there used to be Lady Pit mine in that area? ..........I would be grateful if anyone knows if there was a Lady Pit and any brief information about it. Rummaged around and this came up...Although technologically more sophisticated than the shafts wound by horse gins Wood Pit would have looked quite different to the steam wound Broom and New Pits developed after 1865. The shaft shown behind the “Middleton Miner” in Walkers Costume of Yorkshire (1814) is a very similar size to Wood Pit and as this illustration was published in 1814 is broadly contemporary. The steam winding engine shown may therefore also be similar. Comparable engines were in use on shafts on the Middleton plateau outside the park boundary by 1808 such as Fanny Pit, Lady Pit, Pocket Pit etc., all of which were using fairly low powered steam raising engines (NRO 3410/WAT/3/65/2).These shafts were a similar depth to Wood Pit and were using a mixture of flat and round ropes. The illustration by Walker appears to show a small rotative beam engine which may be attached to a narrow, large diameter reel, typical of flat rope use. Alternatively this may simply be a flywheel hiding a more conventional winding drum. At this date it might be expected that the engine would be a low pressure atmospheric engine with a small haystack boiler.This was on the Friends of Middleton Park website at......http://www.fomp.co.uk/downloads/survey/ ... art2.pdfOn the Middleton plateau - nowhere near Lady Pit Lane really.

kango · Post by **kango** » Thu 07 Feb, 2013 5:26 pm

YorkshireViking wrote: Here's a good one; http://goo.gl/maps/IJv3Ahttp://goo.gl/maps/yiO8P This is Beeston rd Not malvern rd and as mentioned it is indeed the old Shaftsbury house before and after. Another one here..http://goo.gl/maps/LyAnchttp://goo.gl/maps/gzWlg

YorkshireViking · Post by **YorkshireViking** » Thu 07 Feb, 2013 5:53 pm

kango wrote: YorkshireViking wrote: Here's a good one; http://goo.gl/maps/IJv3Ahttp://goo.gl/maps/yiO8P This is Beeston rd Not malvern rd and as mentioned I know, I was initially doing some research on the area around Malvern Road. I got carried away though

kango · Post by **kango** » Thu 07 Feb, 2013 5:58 pm

"I know, I was initially doing some research on the area around Malvern Road. I got carried away though

"My neck of the woods, anything interesting?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Thu 07 Feb, 2013 7:26 pm

Thanks salt 'n pepper for your interesting post today at 15:15:27 in response to my query asking if there was a Lady Pit in the area.

YorkshireViking · Post by **YorkshireViking** » Thu 07 Feb, 2013 11:08 pm

kango wrote: "I know, I was initially doing some research on the area around Malvern Road. I got carried away though

"My neck of the woods, anything interesting? Actually yes. I've just taken up the sitar, and looking into taking lessons at the Gurdwara on Lady Pit Lane

ARGIE · Post by **ARGIE** » Sat 09 Feb, 2013 7:06 pm

Don't know how to do the Google Maps link for Streetview (or at least everytime I do they don't work) and this isn't even of Leeds (any point me continuing?!) but my uncle's pub in Sheffield is amusing on Streetview: if you're looking at the lounge entrance its got its old name signs on it, but the time you get to the taproom entrance its in its current state.Amusing really - would've thought Google would be able to sort something so close to each other!