Asket Hall Revisited

SW88 · Post by **SW88** » Tue 15 Mar, 2011 12:14 pm

The Parksider wrote: SW88 wrote: I used to go to school at the recently demolished Braim Wood, across the road from the hill, so I used to pass the bridge and the site of the house loads of time, to cut through to easterly road. You will be aware of Elmete Hall then behind Braime Wood. Others have visited the grounds and analysed and found a WW2 AA gun emplacement. Amazingly my dad was posted to Wellington Hill gun site years before I lived there, but until this site "dug it out" I didn't know where it was.You'll know Dib Lane? The Grange pub was built on the site of a large house and further up another large hourse "Fearnville" was built in Victorian times.These two appear on old maps.For over 50 years I knew Dib Lane intimately but never knew Fearnville still existed. This grand old house was engulfed by the council housing and a "field trip" last year or so found me walking down a ginnel between some houses and into the grounds of the old house and the old house itself.There's a thread on here (chameleon may kindly oblige) where I get the two houses totally mixed up. Some great posts there.Also there's stuff on Wyke Beck which you should know well. It's been researched by others that it is possible the becks course where it runs straight south of Asket Hill was engineered for a tudor corn mill. You can see walling and an old weir in the beck.We may have lived on a council estate and gone to state schools but twas a bit of grand history below our feet - why not have a days walk round! Wow, that is brilliant! Lessons looked out onto Elmete Hall, I'm sure it had a domed roof? I've also known of the Fearnville/Grange, and know of the name confusion. I've been to whichever one is still standing. What brought me to this site, and inspired me to look for pictures, is, I couldn't believe that Seacroft used to be such a pretty little village, there was a manor and a large lake on the site of what is now parklands girls high school, and now seacroft is one of the most run down, crime filled towns in the country. My present house and previous flat are featured on many shots of the area on leodis. It's brilliant to see the area looking brand new, and full of hope, in the 50s. At the end of my current street, the houses ended and it was just pure countryside... It's still like that now, with the exception of the industrial estate. You're right about their being a grand local history, I love to go on walks and imagine how things were. I saw a picture of dib lane, yesterday. The shops had just been built in the 30s, and the road outside WAS a tiny dirt lane, with the grass between the shops and easterly road being a fenced off field, with trees around the edge. I've never thought of it like that.

jeffn · Post by **jeffn** » Wed 16 Mar, 2011 12:49 pm

I used to live in the Askets just off Easterly Road, I know my old schools have gone ( asket hill and foxwood ) , and my mams house in Asket Garth went years ago, but what is planned for the area ?Being so close to the city the land must be worth a fortune.....Does anyone know if Mick Flanigan still has his house on Asket Garth ?cheersJeff

SW88 · Post by **SW88** » Wed 16 Mar, 2011 1:14 pm

jeffn wrote: I used to live in the Askets just off Easterly Road, I know my old schools have gone ( asket hill and foxwood ) , and my mams house in Asket Garth went years ago, but what is planned for the area ?Being so close to the city the land must be worth a fortune.....Does anyone know if Mick Flanigan still has his house on Asket Garth ?cheersJeff I don't know what's planned for the area, but they've been clearing it for the passed ten years. It's probably being sold off to private developers, they'll make a lot of money with it being so close to to roundhay. If the doctors surgery (park edge practice.) can claim association to the park despite being almost a mile away, then so can a housing estate.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Wed 16 Mar, 2011 4:26 pm

jeffn wrote: I used to live in the Askets just off Easterly Road, I know my old schools have gone ( asket hill and foxwood ) , and my mams house in Asket Garth went years ago, but what is planned for the area ?Jeff A rose garden with a statue of you in the middle of course!Local boy made good etc.....

jeffn · Post by **jeffn** » Thu 17 Mar, 2011 12:43 am

The Parksider wrote: jeffn wrote: I used to live in the Askets just off Easterly Road, I know my old schools have gone ( asket hill and foxwood ) , and my mams house in Asket Garth went years ago, but what is planned for the area ?Jeff A rose garden with a statue of you in the middle of course!Local boy made good etc.....?????

SW88 · Post by **SW88** » Sat 23 Apr, 2011 4:42 pm

For anyone wanting to visit the site, a new footpath has recently opened connecting easterly road with wetherby road. I often go cycling down there, now. There are several remains of the hall still visible, including a stepping stone crossing and large square carved stone with P carved into it both in the same stone as the hall. There's also an information bored at the Wetherby road entrance giving a little information about the hall itself, but mostly about the local area.