Newlay

[The Parksider]

Nice area for a walk!Down Clarence road along the unmade bit at the end and right on newlaithes road there's the biggest tallest old iron lampost I have ever seen - or is it a lampost? - bottom of Victoria Gardens - any of you street furniture geniuses know what this is??Up Pollard lane over the bridge several driveways are walled up and no road is behind them. One led to Newlay Hall. I assume that's knocked down now but you can see something in the (now heavily wooded) area of the house on google earth - is this the foundations?

[cnosni]

The Parksider wrote: Nice area for a walk!Down Clarence road along the unmade bit at the end and right on newlaithes road there's the biggest tallest old iron lampost I have ever seen - or is it a lampost? - bottom of Victoria Gardens - any of you street furniture geniuses know what this is??Up Pollard lane over the bridge several driveways are walled up and no road is behind them. One led to Newlay Hall. I assume that's knocked down now but you can see something in the (now heavily wooded) area of the house on google earth - is this the foundations? The Pollards lived at Newlay Hall.

[The Parksider]

The Parksider wrote: Down Clarence road along the unmade bit at the end and right on newlaithes road there's the tallest old iron lampost I have ever seen - or is it a lampost? - bottom of Victoria Gardens - any of you street furniture geniuses know what this is?? I'm a bit sad quoting my own post, but as we have so much interest in Gaslamps and street furniture like drain covers, I can't think that this lamp post??? Is not quite a curiosity.It has a meter high cast iron ribbed base of 40" circumference with a 30" circumference cast iron post that sits as high as the modern lampost across the street.There's no little door to open up to get at elecrical connections which is odd?? The top is capped and it's flipping intriguing to this anorak.No wording of any kind on it to indicate anything, except two sprayed on yellow arrows one either side with a red square in the middle. I dunno what that can mean or was for.After Gaslamps came electric. (Obviously) Is this the oldest electric lampost in leeds or a Victorian mobile phone mast??Plus anyone know of any electric lampost older than the re-inforced cast concrete ones we are all used to still surviving or is this the one.Maybe Rangie wants a look in passing in his 4x4. The area is full of HUDC drain covers too!!

[simong]

From your description it sounds like a comms mast of a similar type to the one described in Moortown(?) earlier this year. Something like that would make sense in the valley, either for emergency services or for mobile relay.

[chameleon]

The Parksider wrote: The Parksider wrote: Down Clarence road along the unmade bit at the end and right on newlaithes road there's the tallest old iron lampost I have ever seen - or is it a lampost? - bottom of Victoria Gardens - any of you street furniture geniuses know what this is?? I'm a bit sad quoting my own post, but as we have so much interest in Gaslamps and street furniture like drain covers, I can't think that this lamp post??? Is not quite a curiosity.It has a meter high cast iron ribbed base of 40" circumference with a 30" circumference cast iron post that sits as high as the modern lampost across the street.There's no little door to open up to get at elecrical connections which is odd?? The top is capped and it's flipping intriguing to this anorak.No wording of any kind on it to indicate anything, except two sprayed on yellow arrows one either side with a red square in the middle. I dunno what that can mean or was for.After Gaslamps came electric. (Obviously) Is this the oldest electric lampost in leeds or a Victorian mobile phone mast??Plus anyone know of any electric lampost older than the re-inforced cast concrete ones we are all used to still surviving or is this the one.Maybe Rangie wants a look in passing in his 4x4. The area is full of HUDC drain covers too!! First thought is an old stench pipe from your friendly local sewer.... There's a picture or two on here somewhere.Having said that, we've also a picture of a perfect replica of one which is a mobile phone mast! The absence of any base access perhaps makes the former a better contender though.

[The Parksider]

chameleon wrote: [First thought is an old stench pipe from your friendly local sewer.... There's a picture or two on here somewhere. "They are ornate, cast-iron, late-Victorian erections which are 20ft or 30ft high.They were invented after the Great Stink of June 1858, when London’s sewers emitted such a foul stench that even the House of Commons was aware of the problem.The Commons’ curtains were soaked in chloride of lime in a futile attempt to keep the Great Stink out, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Benjamin Disraeli was seen running from the chamber, greenfaced, with a handkerchief pressed over his mouth. Within days, MPs had found the millions to build a proper sewer system and to vent it sufficiently. Such innovations spread to the North-East, and even today, there are about 100 historic vent pipes in the care of Northumbrian Water""".Found one pictured on a newspaper web site with the text above.Not exactly the same, but same sort of thing, tall victorian cast iron pipe with some ornateness about it.That'll do for me mate well done........

[The Parksider]

cnosni wrote: The Pollards lived at Newlay Hall. So I entered the woods from the Lock at Newlay in search of the Hall and blumming heck I found it!! It's a ruin of course but the west wall stands and the grand corner stones give away the classy building. In the wood is a big quarry with a sheer drop that's scaffold poled off. By the hall are many old quarry buildings now abandoned. On the river front is a quarry stone loading point.Extremely good field trip to be recommended.....Apparently Pollard charged people to cross his fine bridge so eventually the train company that ran Newlay station built their own footbridge to stuff him.....The floor plan of Newlay Station and goods yard can easily be seen from the railway bridge..........

[cnosni]

The Parksider wrote: cnosni wrote: The Pollards lived at Newlay Hall. So I entered the woods from the Lock at Newlay in search of the Hall and blumming heck I found it!! It's a ruin of course but the west wall stands and the grand corner stones give away the classy building. In the wood is a big quarry with a sheer drop that's scaffold poled off. By the hall are many old quarry buildings now abandoned. On the river front is a quarry stone loading point.Extremely good field trip to be recommended.....Apparently Pollard charged people to cross his fine bridge so eventually the train company that ran Newlay station built their own footbridge to stuff him.....The floor plan of Newlay Station and goods yard can easily be seen from the railway bridge.......... im descended from Pollards of Horsforth,sadly not the posh beggars in the hall!!The bridge also offered easier access to Bramley,this was especially useful for Wesleyans in Horsforth who had to attend the Wesleyan/Methodist chapel in Bramley,as there wasnt one in Horsforth for some time.apparently Wesley came to hold one of his open air gigs in Horsforth and was chased out.That explains Rangirowner i suppose

[The Parksider]

chameleon wrote: First thought is an old stench pipe from your friendly local sewer.... There's a picture or two on here somewhere.Having said that, we've also a picture of a perfect replica of one which is a mobile phone mast! The absence of any base access perhaps makes the former a better contender though. Hoofing around cross green by St. Hildas church near to cross green pub and by the railway bridge in the pavement is a round cast iron flapof no real interest until you read it's purpose - a "Kopass Ventilator" so not a gas or water stop tap.Anorak stuff maybe but that one is a change. Wonder what it ventilates?