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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 2, 2019 0:20:29 GMT
Granary wharf, Leeds dock or what? If we get much more rain over the next few days, you'll be able to get your boat across C&RT's Leeds office car park and tie it up to the entrance doors. I'm sure the CEO won't raise any objections to you doing this, . . he's a bit pre-occupied with other things at the moment ! |
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Post by JohnV on Aug 2, 2019 5:59:22 GMT
another vote for the Armouries from me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 7:28:34 GMT
We like being moored outside the Hilton Hotel, (using their wifi) near the bottom lock ... get the sun there too whilst it can be deep in shadow on the jetties. The Armoury moorings are very busy and have electric hook up too (no use to us) but quaysider has used them and I believe would recommend them. As peterboat says, the Royal Armouries museum is well worth several hours if you're into history at all. Leeds is a terrific city Telemachus ... we had a terrific stay last year. Rog |
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Post by JohnV on Aug 2, 2019 7:42:24 GMT
A short walk from the Armouries in the direction of the bus station is a covered market which is worth a visit especially when it is quiet. the building is a fantastic example of victorian ornate cast iron work ..... superb if you are into architecture
(I'm annoyed because I am damned if I can remember what it is called)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 7:51:58 GMT
The Cornmarket is a terrific building (great guitar shop)
The indoor market is a must.
The alleyway pubs off Briggate (4 or 5 ) make a wonderful pub crawl.
Great places to dine, and good shops if that's your thing.
You can water taxi from river lock to the armouries and back (free last year, but I think £1 a trip now).
Rog
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Post by thebfg on Aug 2, 2019 9:12:07 GMT
Granary wharf, Leeds dock or what? If we get much more rain over the next few days, you'll be able to get your boat across C&RT's Leeds office car park and tie it up to the entrance doors. I'm sure the CEO won't raise any objections to you doing this, . . he's a bit pre-occupied with other things at the moment ! Yeah too busy telling the world they have enough money and maintenance was not an issue on tv |
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Post by kris on Aug 2, 2019 9:14:44 GMT
Leeds is great but I prefere to moor in granary wharf rather than the armouries but it's personal choice really.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 2, 2019 9:40:29 GMT
If we get much more rain over the next few days, you'll be able to get your boat across C&RT's Leeds office car park and tie it up to the entrance doors. I'm sure the CEO won't raise any objections to you doing this, . . he's a bit pre-occupied with other things at the moment ! Yeah too busy telling the world they have enough money and maintenance was not an issue on tv Yes, . . Parry's 'rabbit in the headlights' interview on Newsnight was far more revealing than he would have wanted it to be ! If, as he claimed last night, they aren't underfunded for the job they've been charged with doing, then the only alternative explanation for their abject failure as the custodians of our inland waterways is that they're simply not up to the job ! The present problems with the dam are the predictable, and preventable, consequences of neglect of a strikingly similar nature to that which led to the Middlewich breach. At Middlewich the towpath had settled/sunk allowing water to run over the top edge of the steep earth embankment and soak the surrounding ground until it became unstable enough to slip. At Whaley Bridge the same situation is in the process of developing, the only difference being that this time the cracked bottom of a concrete spillway, with trees growing through the cracks, is doing the job that the sunken towpath did at Middlewich. |
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 2, 2019 11:40:06 GMT
Thanks all, I guess we can do both at a pinch, plan to spend a day in Leeds.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 11:56:38 GMT
A DAY ! A BLOOMIN' DAY !
Ah well, hope you enjoy it ... little point suggesting more stuff to do that you won't have time for.
Rog
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 2, 2019 11:58:21 GMT
A DAY ! A BLOOMIN' DAY ! Ah well, hope you enjoy it ... little point suggesting more stuff to do that you won't have time for. Rog Well, a day as in 2 nights. There can’t be much to do as it’s grim up north and I forgot me clogs. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 11:59:22 GMT
A DAY ! A BLOOMIN' DAY ! Ah well, hope you enjoy it ... little point suggesting more stuff to do that you won't have time for. Rog Probably empty now anyway. All the students have gone home. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 12:01:59 GMT
A DAY ! A BLOOMIN' DAY ! Ah well, hope you enjoy it ... little point suggesting more stuff to do that you won't have time for. Rog Well, a day as in 2 nights. There can’t be much to do as it’s grim up north and I forgot me clogs. You won't need clogs if you go to white rose, it's quite civilised. Even has a debenhams. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 12:04:06 GMT
Anybody remember the old Marty Fellman sketch ... 'Whistle Stop Tours' where a bus trip was fast forwarded and people chased on and off the coach and great speed ? I keep picturing Nick and Jeff like that racing across the north  Don't spill your gins lads. Rog |
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 2, 2019 15:04:28 GMT
We’ve got in to Leeds Dock / Armoury, but only just, after another boat kindly moved right up fenders touching. It all seems a bit daft that despite the huge size, there are only visitor moorings for 4 boats. The end of the pontoon is for the water taxi (even though it’s not signed) and the pontoons opposite are for permanent moorers only, even though they are half empty. There are also extensive pontoons, some with power bollards, the other side of the lift bridge and therefore inaccessible. What a waste of money!
Granary wharf was pretty chokka too, although we could probably have got into the little side arm next to river lock.
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