Picture of steps on Woodhouse Moor, Leeds.
These steps are on Woodhouse Moor just across from Harrison's almshouses. I walked up them a few days back heading across to the University and as seems normal I was the only person using them. I have more than once pondered these steps, partly because they are more like a staircase but mostly because they do not seem to serve any purpose. I guess that sometime long in the past there was a building here on this bit of Woodhouse Moor, there is nothing now and no indication of what might have been there, just a covering of cinder.
Quite close to this spot is an old cast iron box, not sure what it was used for but I guess it could have been for an electrical supply.
The day I took the above photograph it was pretty miserable, dull and damp too.
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Neat perspective. It makes the stairs feel like a magnet pulling me.
ReplyDeleteThey remind me of stairs leading away from an old football/rugby ground, I imagine the terraces and pitch lie just over the top.
ReplyDeleteFascinating - and atmospheric. A staircase for many where almost nobody but you goes? A portal?
ReplyDeleteI like this kind of thing. We have many old architectural bits in our Arroyo Seco; traces of the grand homes that once were.
ReplyDeleteThe steps were built for the Festival of Britain. There was a Land Touring exhibition which visited various cities around the UK. The odd title is because was also a Sea Touring exhibition in a converted aircraft carrier which went around the ports
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