Methley North station
Methley North station was opened on the 1st July 1840 on the Leeds – Normanton section of the London – Edinburgh LMS line. The station finally closed on the 16th … Continue Reading →
Category: Geography
Canal Diversion
In March 1988 after some unsuccessful piling repairs, the north bank of the river Aire (the old river) breached at a point some yards downstream from Lemonroyd locks. The Opencast … Continue Reading →
From Russia with…..
It was quite some time after completion of the new river construction that we decided to go and see it for ourselves. The plan was to drive to the marina … Continue Reading →
Ha’penny (Caroline) Bridge
The hamlet of Astley lies between the River Aire and the Aire and Calder canal (Yorkshire Evening Paper 1959) One of the houses was formerly the Caroline Inn. The toll … Continue Reading →
Maps
The map below is undated – but would be about 1800. It is obviously incomplete with no reference to any structures in Mickletown, and a school to the west of … Continue Reading →
Aerial View
1993 and unbeknown to me the kids had clubbed together to pay for a one hour flying lesson out of Leeds/Bradford airport for my birthday. Well they did keep it … Continue Reading →
View from the Headgear
Savile Pit Headgear Not the most aesthetic structure in Methley, but certainly the most visible, even more than St Oswalds Church or Methley Hall. One of the things it also … Continue Reading →
St Aidan’s Nature Reserve
What better way to dispose of an unwanted opencast coal mining excavation can there be than to convert it into a nature reserve with associated trails and view points. Opencast … Continue Reading →
Geology
It all started a long time ago – some 4.5 billion years ago, when the earth was formed, with a single mass of land and the rest, ocean. Over … Continue Reading →
SSSI
the Ings are the left overs from the early river systems before the building up of the river banks, hardly ever have they been of arable value.The physical features are … Continue Reading →