epw023837 ENGLAND (1928). Broadway (A6120) under construction, Horsforth, from the south-west, 1928

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.

I'm afraid not. This was a new road around the city of Leeds which is now the A6120.

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.

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.)

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.

Leeds & Liverpool Canal

Not River but a canal.

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.

Horsforth Cemetery

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

St. Margaret's Church, Horsforth