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York Road, diversion

Undated. View shows the site of work on a diversion to York Road. The Killingbeck Motor Co. is on the left and the junction with Selby Road on the right. Tramlines are seen on the...

Skelwith Walk, nos. 18-32

Undated. View shows a row of houses on Skelwith Walk, situated just off York Road, behind what is now Killingbeck police station at the junction with Foundry Lane. The houses, so...

York Road, junction with Sutton Approach

1st July 1936. View of York Road from the junction with Sutton Approach. A telephone call box is seen on the corner, with a man sitting on the wall behind.

Wyke Beck looking south from Old Foundry Lane

Undated. View of Wyke Beck looking south from Old Foundry Lane from the old stone bridge. This part of Foundry Lane and the bridge are now inaccessible to vehicles as the road was...

Wyke Beck from the old stone bridge on Old Foundry Lane

Undated. View from the old stone bridge which carried Old Foundry Lane across Wyke Beck prior to the 1930s, before Foundry Lane was re-routed. On the east side of the Beck Old Fou...

Wyke Beck and the stone bridge crossing Old Foundry Lane

Undated. View of Wyke Beck where Old Foundry Lane crosses by way of an old stone bridge. The view south-east towards high rise flats in Wykebeck Valley Road. This part of Foundry ...

Site of Killingbeck Hall in the winter time

Undated. Image shows the former site of Killingbeck Hall in the winter time when there is a heavy frost on the ground. The Hall was built in the early eighteenth century by the Br...

Killingbeck Fields, view of Gipton

Undated. View of Gipton from Killingbeck Fields. On the left the two high rise blocks of flats nearest the foreground are Denbigh Heights and Denbigh Croft, both built to a height...

Sketch Map of Killingbeck Farm and Smallpox Hospital

Undated. Image shows a sketch map of the former site of Killingbeck Farm, taken from the OS map of 1933. In c1915 it became the site of Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital, centre, and ...

Former site of Killingbeck Farmhouse

Undated. This spot is the former site of Killingbeck Farmhouse which was later converted to the administration block of the new Smallpox Hospital built c1915. This was on a separa...

Poplars marking the former entrance to Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital

Undated. These tall Lombardy Poplar trees marked the former entrance to Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital, built on the site of Killingbeck Farm, c1915. Image courtesy of John Garnett...

Pathway to the former Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital

Undated. The pathway in the foreground, right, leads to the former Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital. It was built on a separate site to the main Killingbeck Sanatorium which, from 19...

Path to Killingbeck Hall

Undated. Image shows the path as it turns left to the former site of Killingbeck Hall. The hall was built in the early 18th century by the Brooke family. It replaced an earlier bu...

Killingbeck Hall, ruined stone wall

Undated. View of a ruined stone wall of the gardens to Killingbeck Hall. The Hall was built in the early 18th Century by the Brooke family. It was sold by the then owner, the Hon....

Old Foundry Lane, near Wyke Beck

Undated. Image shows an overgrown section of Old Foundry Lane which has been disused since the 1930s when the route of Foundry Lane was altered. The old course gave access to an a...

Former site of Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital, old iron railings

Undated. These old, rusted iron railings once surrounded Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital which was built on the site of Killingbeck Farm c1915. Little remains of the hospital now an...

Old course of Foundry Lane

Undated. Image shows the original course of Foundry Lane. The road was re-routed in the 1930s and this kink was taken out to straighten it. The old Foundry Lane crossed Wyke Beck ...

Wyke Beck, old stone bridge

Undated. View of the old stone bridge which crosses Wyke Beck and is part of the original route of Foundry Lane before it was altered in the 1930s. The bridge is of historic inter...

Wyke Beck, old stone bridge

Undated. View of the old stone bridge which crosses Wyke Beck on the old route of Foundry Lane. The bridge is now considerably overgrown but is wide enough to have carried carts a...

Foundry Lane, old route of

Undated. Image shows the old route of Foundry Lane in the summer time. It is now quite overgrown as Foundry Lane was re-routed in the 1930s. Image courtesy of John Garnett.

Foundry Lane, old course

Undated. Image shows the old course of Foundry Lane beneath the trees. It was re-routed in the 1930s. Image courtesy of John Garnett.

Killingbeck Meadows, view of the north-south footpath

Undated. Image shows the north-south footpath which runs through Killingbeck Meadows. The area is of historical interest with strong evidence of medieval farming, including links ...

Old stone bridge off Foundry Lane

Undated. View of the old stone-built bridge which crosses Wyke Beck in a location just off Foundry Lane. Prior to the 1930s this bridge was part of the original route of Foundry L...

Meadow looking towards Foundry Lane

Undated. View across a meadow filled with buttercups and other wild flowers. The view is towards Foundry Lane where tower blocks, Parkway Court and Parkway Grange, are visible in ...

View of lynchets looking towards Foundry Lane

Undated. View of lynchets looking towards Foundry Lane. The lynchets are raised banks of earth caused by ploughing of the slope over a long period of time. The lynchets are though...

View towards the former site of Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital

Undated. Image shows a view towards the former Smallpox Hospital site looking south-west from Foundry Lane. The tree-covered site was, at one time, Killingbeck Farm. In 1915 the m...

Lynchets in a field looking towards Foundry Lane

Undated. Image shows the remains of early farming in the form of raised mounds of earth called lynchets. The lynchets are thought to date from at least the Medieval period. The vi...

Lynchets in a field looking towards Seacroft Estate

Undated. Image shows the distinct outline of Lynchets, agricultural terraces formed by the prolonged ploughing of the slope. The lynchets are thought to date back to at least the ...

Lynchets in a field near Parkway Grange

Undated. View of Lynchets in a field near Parkway Grange in Foundry Lane. The lynchets can be clearly seen as raised mounds of earth, right. The lynchets have been caused by early...

Lynchets in the winter-time, looking towards tower blocks in Foundry Lane

Undated. Image shows a heavy frost covering the lynchets in this wintry scene. Lynchets, seen in the background, right, are a series of raised mounds of earth caused by sustained ...

Lynchets along slopes of Killingbeck Hill

Undated. View of lynchets along slopes of Killingbeck Hill. Lynchets are raised mounds of earth which occur when ploughing has taken place over a sustained period of time on a slo...

Lynchets in fields

Undated. View of lynchets in fields looking towards blocks of high rise flats. The area is noted for the lynchets, which are raised banks of earth, and evidence of early farming f...

Lynchet slope near Foundry Lane

Undated. View of a lynchet slope near Foundry Lane, evidence of medieval farming. A lynchet is a bank of earth which piles up over years of ploughing, usually on a hill slope. The...

Lynchet Embankment in a field

Undated. Image shows a lynchet embankment in a field off Foundry Lane. Lynchets are the result of the ploughing of the slope over centuries and are believed to date back to Mediev...

Lynchett embankments looking towards Foundry Lane

Undated. View taken looking towards Foundry Lane showing old Lynchet Embankments. These tell something of the history of the area and are evidence of medieval strip farming. Farmi...

lynchet field, looking south

Undated. View of lynchet field looking south. Lynchets are old embankments which, in this case, show evidence of strip farming as far back as medieval times. The trees in the back...

Lynchet embankment near Foundry Lane

Undated. Image show a lynchet embankment near Foundry Lane, important evidence of Medieval strip farming. The lynchet embankments run from Foundry Lane, south-west to the site of ...

Lynchet Embankment, looking south-west

Undated. View of lynchet embankment looking south-west. The lynchets are evidence of medieval farming in the area and run from Foundry Lane to the site of Killingbeck Farm. In Med...

Killingbeck fields with tower blocks in the background

Undated. View of Killingbeck fields with tower blocks in the background. On the left is Parkway Court and at the right edge is Parkway Grange. These two residential blocks were bu...

Killingbeck fields looking south

Undated. View of Killingbeck fields looking south. Image courtesy of John Garnett.

Killingbeck Fields looking north-east

Undated. View of Killingbeck fields looking north-east. Image courtesy of John Garnett.

Footpath to Killingbeck Hill

Undated. View of a footpath to Killingbeck Hill. Image courtesy of John Garnett.

Footpath across Lynchet embankments

23d May 2008. View of a footpath across lynchet embankments from Foundry Lane to the former site of Killingbeck Farm. The lynchet embankments are evidence of farming in the area d...

Wykebeck Valley, footpath towards Foundry Lane

Undated. View of a footpath on the hillside of Wykebeck Valley leading towards Foundry Lane. Image courtesy of John Garnett.

Footbridge crossing Wyke Beck

Undated. Image shows the concrete footbridge crossing Wyke Beck. It is located just off Wykebeck Valley Road, near to where the Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital was sited. Killingbec...

Footprint of the ward of Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital

5th January 2008. Image shows a flat, grassed area where the footprint of the ward of Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital can be clearly seen surrounded by trees and brambles. A decisio...

Disused, sunken lane leading to the site of Killingbeck Farm

Undated. Image shows the line of a disused, sunken lane leading south down to the former site of Killingbeck Farm from the old stone bridge crossing Wyke Beck. The bridge was part...

Foundry Lane, old course of

Undated. Image shows the old course of Foundry Lane. It runs over the old stone bridge crossing Wyke Beck, and on towards the lynchets. It then turns left beneath tree cover to jo...

Wykebeck Valley Road, view towards

Undated. View taken looking in the direction of Wykebeck Valley Road. The old iron railings were part of the boundary of the former Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital, built on the sit...

Footbridge over Wyke Beck

Undated. View of the concrete footbridge over Wyke Beck. It is located off Wykebeck Valley Road close to what was once Killingbeck Farm and later became the site of Killingbeck Sm...