EPW023837 ENGLAND (1928). Broadway (A6120) under construction, Horsforth, from the south-west, 1928

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Pennawd [EPW023837] Broadway (A6120) under construction, Horsforth, from the south-west, 1928
Cyfeirnod EPW023837
Dyddiad September-1928
Dolen
Enw lle HORSFORTH
Plwyf HORSFORTH
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 422363, 436932
Hydred / Lledred -1.6602041817017, 53.827960547396
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol SE224369

Pinnau

St Margaret's Church, Horsforth

Alexa
Friday 11th of November 2022 03:29:56 PM
Nethway, Nethway Lodge & Fence End

Joel Kaufman
Wednesday 3rd of January 2018 09:56:00 PM

Joel Kaufman
Wednesday 3rd of January 2018 09:55:13 PM
Now the site of Leeds City COllege (Horsforth Campus)

JohnG
Wednesday 27th of November 2013 11:31:55 AM
Calverley Lane

JohnG
Wednesday 27th of November 2013 11:30:34 AM
New Road Side (A65)

JohnG
Wednesday 27th of November 2013 11:29:53 AM

JohnG
Wednesday 27th of November 2013 11:26:17 AM
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.

Parlington
Thursday 22nd of November 2012 07:49:13 PM
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.

lin pass
Friday 19th of October 2012 08:38:45 PM
Could this be a temporary siding to the new works?

Maurice
Thursday 9th of August 2012 08:33:53 AM
This could well be a train made up of 'passenger train vans', as there are several short (six wheeled vehicles) among longer bogie stock.

Maurice
Thursday 9th of August 2012 08:32:53 AM
Horsforth Hall Park

Class31
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 11:29:33 AM
Nethway Lodge

Class31
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 11:26:18 AM
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!

Isleworth1961
Tuesday 17th of July 2012 02:11:47 PM
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.

Class31
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 10:55:44 AM
Deseronto Wharf, Langley, Bucks

D Figueiredo
Wednesday 4th of July 2012 01:05:02 PM
Gravel workings that have now disappeared under new housing estate in Langley near Springfield Park.

D Figueiredo
Wednesday 4th of July 2012 01:03:22 PM
I'm afraid not. This was a new road around the city of Leeds which is now the A6120.

Class31
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 10:49:41 AM
GWR railway from Paddington to Reading, somewhere between Iver and Langley?

D Figueiredo
Wednesday 4th of July 2012 01:00:01 PM
Grand Union Canal Slough Arm near Langley/Iver, Bucks?

D Figueiredo
Wednesday 4th of July 2012 12:58:53 PM
The Manor School, Langley, near Slough, Bucks.

D Figueiredo
Wednesday 4th of July 2012 12:58:05 PM
Triple set of bowstrung trusses for two tracks of railway line being built nearby. GWR style after Windsor Bridge.

john m fallas
Saturday 30th of June 2012 02:05:20 PM
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.

Class31
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 10:47:42 AM
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.)

stimarco
Thursday 9th of August 2012 06:16:37 PM
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.

Maurice
Friday 10th of August 2012 07:06:07 AM
Canal with barge.

EastMarple1
Friday 29th of June 2012 03:32:27 PM
Leeds & Liverpool Canal

Class31
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 11:04:36 AM

EastMarple1
Friday 29th of June 2012 03:28:32 PM
Not River but a canal.

D Figueiredo
Wednesday 4th of July 2012 01:01:11 PM
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.

Class31
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 10:45:36 AM

EastMarple1
Friday 29th of June 2012 03:24:31 PM

EastMarple1
Friday 29th of June 2012 03:23:43 PM

EastMarple1
Friday 29th of June 2012 03:23:01 PM
Railway line (complete with train)

EastMarple1
Friday 29th of June 2012 03:21:48 PM

EastMarple1
Friday 29th of June 2012 03:20:39 PM
Horsforth Cemetery

Class31
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 11:06:51 AM
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

Katy Whitaker
Wednesday 24th of October 2012 10:32:07 AM
Church with spire set away from town/village

EastMarple1
Friday 29th of June 2012 03:15:50 PM
St. Margaret's Church, Horsforth

Class31
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 11:40:34 AM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

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/

D Figueiredo
Monday 23rd of June 2014 12:33:54 AM
The Canal is the Leeds Liverpool canal and at this point is between Horsforth and Rodley in Yorkshire.

OldTyke
Monday 23rd of June 2014 12:33:54 AM
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

Buzz
Tuesday 9th of October 2012 10:07:58 PM
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.

Maurice
Thursday 9th of August 2012 05:52:16 PM
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 !)

sweetpeagrower
Thursday 9th of August 2012 05:52:16 PM
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?

Maurice
Thursday 9th of August 2012 07:57:04 AM
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.

Class31
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 11:52:27 AM
Eureka

I am still gathering evidence but I believe I have this one.

Class31
Wednesday 8th of August 2012 10:31:20 AM
It's a pretty serious bit of road they're building.

The A1 or A3 perhaps.?

TheBlueCube
Saturday 30th of June 2012 02:07:39 PM
Twin railway tracks. Heading for the bridge they're building.

john m fallas
Saturday 30th of June 2012 02:07:39 PM