Local history: South Accommodation Bridge
Continuing our series on the bridges over the River Aire and canals, we now leave Crown Point Bridge and walk south along the towpath until we come to our next and final bridge the Hunslet and South Accommodation Bridge. Very little information has been found about this road and bridge.
Police search for man in river
Police are appealing for information as they continue searching the River Aire in Leeds city centre today (24 December 2024) following a report of a person entering the water. At 11.27pm last night, police were contacted by the fire service who had received a report of a person seen entering
Local History: Victoria Bridge
Having completed Wellington Bridge (June) and Monk Bridge (July) our next bridge is a short walk down the Leeds & Liverpool Canal towpath to the Canal Basin where we will find Victoria Bridge situated. The planning and construction of this bridge was a very long and drawn out affair that
Local History: The Monk Bridge
Continuing our series looking at the bridges that cross the River Aire and canals in Leeds, our next bridge down river from Wellington Bridge is Monk Bridge on the Whitehall Road. This bridge derived its name from an area called Monk Pits, an area of meadowland to the north of
Litter-eating ‘shark’ launched on Leeds waterfront in UK first
A new aquatic robot, inspired by a whale shark and using cutting-edge technology from the Netherlands, is set to clean up the waterways in Leeds City Centre. It is the first project of its kind in the UK. Yorkshire Design Group and partners are delighted to announce the launch of
Local history: Bridges across the River Aire and canals
After writing an article previously about Leeds Bridge I began to think of the other bridges that spanned the River Aire and its Navigation as well as the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. With this in mind I thought why not start at Wellington Bridge and travel downriver towards Hunslet. Leeds
Climate Innovation District welcomes visitors to pop up riverside bar
CITU’s Climate Innovation District is the place to be this summer with its newly landscaped summer gardens in full bloom and Piglove by the River, one of Leeds’s most popular pop-up beer gardens, re-opening with a new indoor space ready to welcome even more visitors to this oasis of calm
River towpath waste mystery cleared up
We reported last week on a mysterious outflow that was poisoning vegetation along the River Aire towpath, following investigations by Leeds City Council the culprits have come clean and the sludge has been stopped. Campaign group Friends of the Aire reported that their had been discharges since November 2022 from
Campaigners call out towpath pollution
Hunslet residents and campaigners are crying foul, and demanding answers, about a mysterious liquid pollutant being piped onto the nearby River Aire towpath. Since November 2022 there have seen several incidents of an unidentified grey discharge flowing out of two large industrial pipes, covering the towpath and surrounding greenery. The