Quarry Hill Flats

liits · Post by **liits** » Thu 16 Feb, 2012 3:13 pm

Thanks for the photos Si. About the only major difference I can see is the one which I've outined in red. Seems that it [and it looks like a cinema] was never built. I canot find any mention of it in Peter Mitchell's Momento Mori book. The gap in the buildings was later filled with something. From the photo's in the book, it looks like shops but the book says store-rooms.

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Thu 16 Feb, 2012 3:22 pm

[quotenick="liits"] Jogon wrote: What was "never fully completed" about it? I don't think they ever built that massive trampoline that you can see in a darker colour towards the right of the model.

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 16 Feb, 2012 3:33 pm

[quotenick="Bruno"] liits wrote: Jogon wrote: What was "never fully completed" about it? I don't think they ever built that massive trampoline that you can see in a darker colour towards the right of the model. Is it a trampoline - if it is it looks a little too like the modern-day garden toys in design to be real - sure they wouldn't have the safety rails then. It coincides with thre position of the old gasholder present on the site, I suspect it is this.

liits · Post by **liits** » Thu 16 Feb, 2012 3:54 pm

[quotenick="chameleon"] Bruno wrote: liits wrote: Jogon wrote: What was "never fully completed" about it? I don't think they ever built that massive trampoline that you can see in a darker colour towards the right of the model. Is it a trampoline - if it is it looks a little too like the modern-day garden toys in design to be real - sure they wouldn't have the safety rails then. It coincides with thre position of the old gasholder present on the site, I suspect it is this. Great minds think alike [or the other version of that saying]. Don’t knock it, a giant trampoline was suggested for one of the “Triplet” gas-holders at the back of King’s Cross Station. Sadly, it never got to the planning stage. Even Camden Council - as mad as they are - wouldn’t go with it.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Thu 16 Feb, 2012 7:41 pm

I wonder if anyone else recalls a fire at Quarry Hill Flats (QHF) that I think is likely to have been in the late 1950s up to 1962. I say during that period as there were signs of the fire in the form of a blackened wall for a long time after the fire and I still saw that blackened wall regularly. To have seen it so frequently it would seem very likely therefore to have been during the time when I used to go in and out of the centre of Leeds on my way to and from school when using public transport, as I never regularly went that way after 1962 until the 1990s. The fire was in a part of QHF that faced the New York Street/York Street/Duke Street junction. I would not be surprised to hear that the blackened wall was still there when QHF were demolished.On a lighter side I wonder if there are still remains of QHF that a Time Team could come across in time to come when Quarry House and its area get demolished. As QHF seem to have been built on the level I wonder why Quarry House and its area appear to be on a hill (Quarry Hill?) or is just an illusion or me not seeing it correctly!

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Fri 17 Feb, 2012 12:38 am

[quotenick="Leodian"]I wonder if anyone else recalls a fire at Quarry Hill Flats (QHF) that I think is likely to have been in the late 1950s up to 1962. I say during that period as there were signs of the fire in the form of a blackened wall for a long time after the fire and I still saw that blackened wall regularly. To have seen it so frequently it would seem very likely therefore to have been during the time when I used to go in and out of the centre of Leeds on my way to and from school when using public transport, as I never regularly went that way after 1962 until the 1990s. The fire was in a part of QHF that faced the New York Street/York Street/Duke Street junction. I would not be surprised to hear that the blackened wall was still there when QHF were demolished.Is that the part of QHF that was bombed during the war?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 17 Feb, 2012 2:05 am

[quotenick="dogduke"] Leodian wrote: I wonder if anyone else recalls a fire at Quarry Hill Flats (QHF) that I think is likely to have been in the late 1950s up to 1962. I say during that period as there were signs of the fire in the form of a blackened wall for a long time after the fire and I still saw that blackened wall regularly. To have seen it so frequently it would seem very likely therefore to have been during the time when I used to go in and out of the centre of Leeds on my way to and from school when using public transport, as I never regularly went that way after 1962 until the 1990s. The fire was in a part of QHF that faced the New York Street/York Street/Duke Street junction. I would not be surprised to hear that the blackened wall was still there when QHF were demolished.Is that the part of QHF that was bombed during the war? Sorry dogduke but I don't know if it was bombed or not, but the part I'm referring to was certainly intact and looked original when the fire occured. The blackened streak on the outside wall caused by the fire was very obvious.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 01 Jun, 2012 9:35 am

Something for Quarry Hill AND bus fans:A bus using a petrol substitute at the bus station in Leeds, c 1943. Clearly visible is one of the containers for synthetic fuel, which is pulled along behind the bus like a trailer. Quarry Hill flats visible.1943 Wartime Leeds. A group of children stand in the shade of the entrance way to 109-122 Oastler House at Quarry Hill flats, Leeds. The flat, rounded porch over the entrance is supported by two large concrete pillars. Is it you?A mother and son walk home in the sunshine past the impressive archway entrance to a curving section of Quarry Hill flats in Leeds, the 8-storey building sweeping round to the right. According to the original caption, the flats had their own shopping centre and recreation grounds for the children. The building featured is probably Oastler House.

Si · Post by Si » Fri 01 Jun, 2012 9:43 am

Great pictures, Jogon. Are these all IWM pics?

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 01 Jun, 2012 9:54 am

Yes, I was searching 'tanks' + Helmsley (sorry, non leeds, but a leeds day out)got bored and did 'leeds'.Hence the recent flurry.http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/searc ... =leedsNice shot of HMS LEEDS on there too.