Friday 25 September 2020

Beeston and Middleton Stroll. 


John and Colin rendezvoused around 11:00 at Beeston Primary where John spent his formative school years before going to a brand new school on Gipsy Lane called Parkside that we would shortly be passing after meeting up with Brian at 11:20 at Beeston Park opposite The Tommy Wass public house. 


Brian was already there so we continued up Gipsy Lane and past mine and John’s old school that John went to in 1957 and me in 1960. 


We tried to go go down the PROW (Public Right of Way) but it had been temporarily closed due to expanding the school’s capacity. 


We then took a detour across the South Leeds Colf Course that closed down last year and was eventually bought by Leeds City Council which had first opened its doors in 1933. 


We entered the woods through the railings and worked our way up to the tram track and scaling a few steps we were in the Rose Garden which my Father in Law  looked after for many years. 


We followed our noses back onto the golf course and towards the listed grade II water tower in the distance until we came to the Bike Café where we stopped for a toilet break and a bite to eat. 


The meal was delightful as we returned from whence we came and passed a lady coming towards us that was no less than Tina Watts the bonus clearly at Chas. F. Thackray who told us she ran seven miles a day! She was on her way to work so after a brief chat we were on our way to the other side of the woods and Westland Road where Brian had parked his car. 


The journey took us onto the clearings and we eventually descended down through the woods until we eventually arrived at the Southleigh’s housing estate and the first person we bumped into once again was Tina Watt’s who was just coming out of her house on her way to work. 


We passed down a thicket which brought us onto Westland Road where Brian picked his car up and John his bus back into Leeds and Colin returned to his abode. 


Another lovely day out with the weather once again holding up and 14,000 steps for me and 17,000 for John.

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