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Broadway (A6120) under construction, Horsforth, from the south-west, 1928
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Parlington added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "I believe this terrace is now called Navigation Court, ..."
Katy Whitaker replied to an annotation made on image EPW023837 - "Thanks Class 31, Horsforth Cemetery is a real help in ..."- lin pass added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "Horsforth National school. Teacher Tom Warren would ..."
Buzz added a comment and photograph to image EPW023837 - "Based on previous people's observations and looking at ..."- Maurice replied to an annotation made on image EPW023837 - "Prompted by other comments to look again, it appears the ..."
- stimarco replied to an annotation made on image EPW023837 - "I agree with Class31. Comparing with Google Maps' ..."
- sweetpeagrower replied to a comment made on image EPW023837 - "A good point well made Maurice - there is also the ..."
- Maurice added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "Could this be a temporary siding to the new works?"
- Maurice added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "This could well be a train made up of 'passenger train ..."
- Maurice added a comment to image EPW023837 - "PS. This picture does raise questions about how ‘Britain ..."
- Maurice added a comment to image EPW023837 - "I could never see the Slough/Langley link. The geometry ..."
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- Class31 replied to an annotation made on image EPW023837 - "St. Margaret's Church, Horsforth"
- Class31 added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "Horsforth Hall Park"
- Class31 added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "Nethway Lodge"
Class31 contributed a coordinate for image EPW023837- Class31 replied to an annotation made on image EPW023837 - "Horsforth Cemetery"
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- Class31 replied to an annotation made on image EPW023837 - "Thank you Isleworth1961 because you gave me a clue that ..."
- Class31 replied to an annotation made on image EPW023837 - "I'm afraid not. This was a new road around the city of ..."
- Class31 replied to an annotation made on image EPW023837 - "Probably the staging for a concrete bridge which was ..."
- Class31 replied to an annotation made on image EPW023837 - "Definitely a river. The River Aire. Whilst doing this ..."
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I am still gathering evidence but I believe I ..."
- Isleworth1961 added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "This surely cannot be the GWR main line near Slough. The ..."
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- D Figueiredo added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "Deseronto Wharf, Langley, Bucks"
- D Figueiredo added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "Gravel workings that have now disappeared under new ..."
- D Figueiredo replied to an annotation made on image EPW023837 - "Not River but a canal."
- D Figueiredo added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "GWR railway from Paddington to Reading, somewhere ..."
- D Figueiredo added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "Grand Union Canal Slough Arm near Langley/Iver, Bucks?"
- D Figueiredo added an annotation to image EPW023837 - "The Manor School, Langley, near Slough, Bucks."
- john m fallas replied to a comment made on image EPW023837 - "Twin railway tracks. Heading for the bridge they're ..."
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The ..."
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I believe this terrace is now called Navigation Court, in the foreground is the Leeds Liverpool canal and beyond is the River Aire. The 4 storey mill is no longer extant. The nearest township is Rodley, Leeds, to the south.
Thursday 22nd November
7:49pm
Cemetary
Friday 29th June
2:20pm
Thanks Class 31, Horsforth Cemetery is a real help in fixing this one isn't it, amongst the chaos of the road construction. The original Aerofilms Ltd Rgister entry is "Site of new railway for Earle's Cement"...anyway, we'll update the catalogue and post the confirmed correct location here in due course.
Yours, Katy
Britain from Above Cataloguing Team Leader
Wednesday 24th October
9:32am
Horsforth Cemetery
Wednesday 8th August
10:06am
Horsforth National school. Teacher Tom Warren would catch a train each day to Calverley and Rodley Station. He would walk to Horsforth via Calverley Lane. When the Leeds ring road was being built workmen gave him fossils found during the excavations for the cutting between Horsforth and Rodley. He used them in lessons for many years afterwards.
Friday 19th October
7:38pm
Based on previous people's observations and looking at it in Google earth, it is quite clear that it is the A6120 being built.
See Google Earth picture
Tuesday 9th October
9:07pm
Triple set of bowstrung trusses for two tracks of railway line being built nearby. GWR style after Windsor Bridge.
Saturday 30th June
1:05pm
Prompted by other comments to look again, it appears the top of the earthworks between the canal and the railway, the box like form - probably in concrete - and the top of the ‘bowstrings’ are all about level. This supports the idea that the five parallel curved topped frameworks are the ‘formwork’ or ‘centering’ for the construction of the span across the canal: the top of which would carry a level road surface across canal, embankment, the railway and away to the north.
Friday 10th August
6:06am
I agree with Class31. Comparing with Google Maps' satellite imagery, the structures are recognisable, including the two-arch skew bridge we're seeing here. The structure shown in the photograph is formwork for building concrete bridge arches.
The earthworks erroneously labelled as a "gravel pit" are part of the foundations for the bridge approach of the new road. That is *is* a road can clearly be determined by the fact that the work site clearly begins at an existing road (that site is now a roundabout).
The A6120 runs down to the foreground of the image, connecting with the road visible there with another roundabout. Presumably, the road was built for access to the housing in the area which, looking at the Google Maps aerial imagery appears to date mostly from around the 1920s-30s. (This fits in with the massive housing construction boom that took place around this time.)
Thursday 9th August
5:16pm
Probably the staging for a concrete bridge which was built at this point and appears to be extant today carrying the A6120 Horsforth New Road.
Wednesday 8th August
9:47am
PS. This picture does raise questions about how ‘Britain form Above’ is going to present the evidence provided by visitors to the site. Does it leave it as a 'conversation' that future visitors have to work through or does it go with the correct evidence - editing out misleading strands? If erroneous rest uncontested it is not a lot of help in identifying the scenes.
Thursday 9th August
7:04am
A good point well made Maurice - there is also the problem of the increasing jumble of pointless or rather blindingly obvious information being 'pinned' by well meaning people (e.g 'road' being added as a comment on an unlocated picture !)
Thursday 9th August
4:52pm
Could this be a temporary siding to the new works?
Thursday 9th August
7:33am
This could well be a train made up of 'passenger train vans', as there are several short (six wheeled vehicles) among longer bogie stock.
Thursday 9th August
7:32am
I could never see the Slough/Langley link. The geometry of the river/canal and the railway did not make sense. It is interesting to note that the bowstring bridge has gone as the road is now wider and the railway has dropped from four to two tracks. It is now electrified and probably has the same capacity as the original four-track railway. Thank you to Class31 for resolving my discontent on this one. Were the bowstrings steel or reinforced concrete the latter being fashionable at about this time?
Thursday 9th August
6:57am
This is definitely the line of the A6120 under construction with the River Aire and Leeds & Liverpool Canal in the vforeground. In the middle distance Horsforth Hall Park and Horsforth Cemetery and in the far distance St. Margaret's Church which today is surrounded by housing.
View looking northeast.
Wednesday 8th August
10:52am
Church with spire set away from town/village
Friday 29th June
2:15pm
St. Margaret's Church, Horsforth
Wednesday 8th August
10:40am
Horsforth Hall Park
Wednesday 8th August
10:29am
Nethway Lodge
Wednesday 8th August
10:26am
Canal with barge.
Friday 29th June
2:32pm
Leeds & Liverpool Canal
Wednesday 8th August
10:04am
This surely cannot be the GWR main line near Slough. The passenger train seen has coaches of the wrong livery, (they're not 'chocolate and cream'), and other companies' trains were not very often found running over this stretch of the GWR!
Tuesday 17th July
1:11pm
Thank you Isleworth1961 because you gave me a clue that we might be barking up the wrong tree and gave me the impetus to give it a go. The train is on the Leeds to Shipley line of the LMS ex Midland Railway.
Wednesday 8th August
9:55am
Gravel workings that have now disappeared under new housing estate in Langley near Springfield Park.
Wednesday 4th July
12:03pm
I'm afraid not. This was a new road around the city of Leeds which is now the A6120.
Wednesday 8th August
9:49am
River
Friday 29th June
2:28pm
Definitely a river. The River Aire. Whilst doing this research I found that Jane Eyre is possibly a play on the word Aire in River Aire.
Wednesday 8th August
9:45am
Not River but a canal.
Wednesday 4th July
12:01pm
Eureka
I am still gathering evidence but I believe I have this one.
Wednesday 8th August
9:31am
I am pretty certain that this is the Grand Union Canal Slough Arm taken from the north near Langley in Buckinghamshire. There used to be a lot of gravel workings in this area and fields before Langley became so urban. The Slough Arm is a haven for people and wildlife and boaters. Find out more at http://canalrivertrust.org.uk/
Wednesday 4th July
12:14pm
Deseronto Wharf, Langley, Bucks
Wednesday 4th July
12:05pm
GWR railway from Paddington to Reading, somewhere between Iver and Langley?
Wednesday 4th July
12:00pm
Grand Union Canal Slough Arm near Langley/Iver, Bucks?
Wednesday 4th July
11:58am
The Manor School, Langley, near Slough, Bucks.
Wednesday 4th July
11:58am
It's a pretty serious bit of road they're building.
The A1 or A3 perhaps.?
Friday 29th June
9:44am
Twin railway tracks. Heading for the bridge they're building.
Saturday 30th June
1:07pm
Hills
Friday 29th June
2:24pm
Signal box?
Friday 29th June
2:23pm
Sidings
Friday 29th June
2:23pm
Railway line (complete with train)
Friday 29th June
2:21pm