Buslingthorpe Conservation Area

[stutterdog]

iansmithofotley wrote: Hi everyone,Further to my previous post, if you Google "Buslingthorpe Vale" there are lots of references to a rugby team of that name, and a rugby ground.Whilst searching, I also found this site to be very interesting:http://tenenitankh.livejournal.com/Ian     Thanks for the link Ian. Having read the first story I came to the conclusion that things did not change much between 1927 and 1950.The things he was saying about life in the 30's were very similar to my childhood in the 40's!

[BJF]

BJF wrote: This is the old bulding (Barn?) up the track, off Buslingthorpr lane, which goes on up Sugarwell Hill    

[The Parksider]

BJF wrote: strewth Nope can't upload it. Round about the year 3,000 computers and computerised systems will be user friendly. Until that time people with intelligence and ability who do not manage to win the fight against rubbish computer systems will be told "oh, it's easy" by people who were lucky enough to "get through".Well done BJF, nice try. The "Barn" looks like a barn but clearly in the local circumstances probably is something else. What I would lurve to know.

[Si]

It looks like a barn to me, though obviously quite old. Although it has been re-roofed (I'd guess it originally had a stone roof,) it looks a little precarious, as the arch above the large opening has sagged. Below the bricked-up window, is an earlier doorway.

[Cardiarms]

Just had a look at our mapping system and the water mains that supplied Lorryhill, Spring Hill and Buslingthorpe Vale etc are still in place and live. The Bus Vale one goes althe way round to where Stonegate crosses the beck. Our maps still show the road! There's an empty field here that possibly had something on it until relatively recently.    

[raveydavey]

The "barn" in that picture looks almost identical to the stables at Seacroft Grange, from memory.

[cnosni]

Phill_dvsn wrote: Ha ha. That's funny.I only photographed the very same buildings myself this Saturday gone lol The first 8 pics on this page here are the area in question.http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/     This is scary in a way. a few weeks ago i took a diversion down here,bit of Family History with this area (and a quick look at Munki and Dunki),and as usual i was boring the pants off my other half,waxing lyrical about the character of the area,and how on earth can they let it go like this,and "look what they did to Balmforths" etc etc.I love areas like this,they make me really look at the surroundings,to try and see what it was like when my Pickard ancestors lived and worked in this very area in from the mid 18th century.I love old mills/victorian industrial buildings,dont ask me to explain why,but i do,and this area seems to exude that particular age.

[cnosni]

liits wrote: The Parksider wrote: liits wrote: In the 1881 directory there is a Joseph Bradley listed as a quarry owner living in Meanwood but no further information.There is also a George Thompson of Potternewton Lane and a Robert Whitehead [with quarries at] Meanwood, Leeds and Oulton but no indication of where he lived. Who's listed on scott wood lane then?? (please!) Sadly, the 1881 is only a trade directory and doesn’t list residential so I can’t offer any more info.The former library at Sheepscar deals with West Yorks. archive stuff and has a very wide range of trade, street and other directories. Problem being you’ll now need a CARN ticket to use it. This is because of all the pages going missing from books caused – allegedly – by silly so and so’s researching their family history. Rant over. The Carn ticket has been introduced as standard to most archive rooms.As a Family historian i welcome it,because it does help to provide some sort of protection to the documents held there.I was researching some Irish relatives and in order to do so i had to go to the Catholic Archives in Headingley,as the PR for Mount St Marys and St Pats are held there.There was a great deal of close scrutiny of my actions by the archivist.This was because some of the actual baptism registers for St Pats had been taken by someone who was allowed to come in and "supposedley "scrutinise" them.They are now lost ,probably forever,to other researchers.So im afraid it does happen.

[cnosni]

The Parksider wrote: Si wrote: Cardiarms wrote: One of the entries on Leodis describes it as 'Queen Anne' style. Not sure when that is but roughly 'Georgian'. That's pre-Georgian, Cardiarms. Queen Anne, 1702 - 1714. Older than we thought.         If this building is a classic Queen Anne period house it really should be a grade triple A listed monument, and somewhere someone should really have championed the building and documented it's history??Have we really sunk so low that this sort of period building has seemingly been ignored for hundreds of years?Lets do the usual history tour. Corn exchange, Town Hall then into the Vic for 10 pints!!I'm being sarcy of course...... Im not,lets do it. A field walk,when the weather is better!!!

[cnosni]

Si wrote: The Parksider wrote: chemimike wrote: This view from Bing seems to be the same as the "Scott Hall" in Leodis. It is marked as Scott Hall in the 1851 map, but Scott Hall cottage on the 1906 map. So it's as old as 1851 and probably older - wow - bet they don't conserve that the beaurocrats!!It's a grand house not a cottage - well worth a look and in good condition would even be a stand out in Park square...MIKE - do you have an image of the "barn" that is just further up the lane???? Quite a bit older, I would guess, Parksider. I'm no expert, but it looks early Georgian to me, possibly mid 1700s?, going by the pronounced "quoins" on the corners. I like the fact that it's not truly symmetrical like most substantial houses of the period. Lovely entrance too!Surely it's listed - Grade II at least?         Very similar to Dial House in Haltonhttp://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIde ... 6_70455569