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Image shows the start of the Kirkstall Viaduct crossing the Leeds Liverpool Canal. It was built to the designs of Thomas Grainger utilising the local Bramley Fall stone and opened on 23rd March 1849. The Leeds & Thirsk railway opened on 9th July 1849. The arch is a particularly fine example of Victorian bridge construction with elliptical shape and rusticated voussoirs. All the canal bridges between Leeds and Liverpool are numbered and this is 225C. The viaduct also crosses the River Aire and Kirkstall Road and carries the Harrogate railway line. The area, left, between Viaduct Road and the canal, was known as Botany Bay. There is a local story that the first load of wool to be imported from Australia arrived here in 1807. It's destination was Armley Mills to be spun.
Photograph courtesy of Terry Cryer. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Kirkstall Viaduct Botany Bay Leeds Liverpool Canal | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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