Ground Extension

bnet said:
https://flic.kr/p/2kaYzBo

heres an old photo of the site, you can see what appears to be a rail track coming off the Burton line into the power station close to that shed. There other photos showing small steam engines working on the site, so this might explain the turntable. How else would you turn a train around in a limited area.

I'm sick to death of this Nazi cunt wanting to have a go at me when he's had a drink. I don't have to prove anything, and l don't tell lies, where's the benefit of me making a story up about such a matter, none, its just this shit bags issues that he can't deal with but gets pissed and acts like a bitchy women.
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Bnet, approximately how old is that picture, any idea?
 
The National Grid Refurbishment Centre, as already stated - the club has planning permission for the demolition.
There are already plans in place to build a replacement in Desford.

The current building is not listed.

The club plans to enhance the Raw Dykes Scheduled Monument.
 
bnet said:
https://flic.kr/p/RLCaUm

on this you can see the railway line going from the Ivanhoe line into the area where the building that was the electricity building that we are talking about is.
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I love this picture. Of greater significance is you can see the Filbert Street floodlights in the background.

When I was a trainspotter 60 years ago I used to go down to the bridge where the Leicester Burton line crossed the GCR. In the evening you would see the Fish train pulled by a Brit on the GCR and if you were lucky a goods pulled by a Joob on the Burton now called Ivanhoe line.

A turntable in the works would be highly unlikely since as Micky says little tank engines like the one pictured did not need to be turned.

Abuse aside, threads like this are why I love the Roof.
 
ElmetFox said:
I love this picture. Of greater significance is you can see the Filbert Street floodlights in the background.

When I was a trainspotter 60 years ago I used to go down to the bridge where the Leicester Burton line crossed the GCR. In the evening you would see the Fish train pulled by a Brit on the GCR and if you were lucky a goods pulled by a Joob on the Burton now called Ivanhoe line.

A turntable in the works would be highly unlikely since as Micky says little tank engines like the one pictured did not need to be turned.

Abuse aside, threads like this are why I love the Roof.
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Correct, The shunters would run around using the myriad of hand-operated points that these plants always had.
 
sixthswan said:
The National Grid Refurbishment Centre, as already stated - the club has planning permission for the demolition.
There are already plans in place to build a replacement in Desford.

The current building is not listed.

The club plans to enhance the Raw Dykes Scheduled Monument.
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The. function of the building as already been moved elsewhere. Who's to say that someone hasn't stuck a notice in regarding this building and it is just slowing the process down.

If l didn't think it was true l wouldn't have posted, why would l want to listen to that cunt Hackney, who's as thick a shit insinuating that I'm a liar, as he does constantly on here. Its is personal issues with that he can't address that cause this shit for no reason.

Its a subject for discussion, of which its been, but, like l say, this wanker as an issue with me that he should take off here and take it up with me, not behind a keyboard when hes drunk.
 
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I'm not bothered about your spat with Hackney. Couldn't care less.
Also I'm not saying you have lied.
I'm grateful for you passing some information on, because it is a subject that is of interest to me.

There hasn't been a retrospective addition of this building to either the Listed or Local Listed buildings register, on any documentation. That would be unlikely to happen anyway, after planning permission has already been granted for demolition.
 
whatever happens these delays are not good. Weren't they supposed to be starting work this summer? I fear that the artists impressions might remain just that.
 
stivesblue said:
Why do people have ago at bnet when all he's doing is passing on info he's been told,
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I’m not having a go at Bnet. I’m just suggesting we could make something of the dyke. At least have a viewing area and a board with the history written for visitors to read. The plans show a footpath past it in that corner to allow for a swifter exit onto Saffron Lane / Aylestone Road.
 
DagenhamFox said:
I’m not having a go at Bnet. I’m just suggesting we could make something of the dyke. At least have a viewing area and a board with the history written for visitors to read. The plans show a footpath past it in that corner to allow for a swifter exit onto Saffron Lane / Aylestone Road.
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DagenhamFox said:
Seeing this bit of history and the photo’s have been really interesting so thanks @bnet and @hackneyfox

Had it not been for the spat the research and photo’s may not have been done.
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Sorry Daggers I didn’t mean for your message to be on my post, nothing meant by it just a mistake
 
i dont give a toss about who said this and who said that - this thread has , as they say , been BRILLIANT as i have seen pictures not seen before of the area . BLUE FOOKING ARMY.

nb was that the locomotive that was used when building the banks down saffron lane to aylestone road locally known as puffing billy?
 
DagenhamFox said:
Seeing this bit of history and the photo’s have been really interesting so thanks @bnet and @hackneyfox

Had it not been for the spat the research and photo’s may not have been done.
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l do this sort of stuff every time l need to know something to be honest, and wouldn't have bothered if that prick hadn't insinuated, again, that I'm a liar. He does this bitter disrespectful shit when hes had a booze.

I don't talk out my arse like him and a couple of others on here, but strangely enough its the very ones who say l do at any given moment. As you can see l do look into things, its my obsessive nature, and I'm sorry that others have to listen to me defending myself against toss pots like Adolph Hackney.

To be honest, there's a couple of points that decent blokes on here got wrong, but l didn't feel the need to correct them unlike twats who know fuck all and want to belittle others.
 
Once again, I never insinuated you were a liar, I questioned your source and why they hadn't thought it through before passing it on to you.
 
Great photo's.Am i right in thinking the building in question was the place where they sold a load of refbished tellys in the eightys?That was where my lovelly ex and i got our first telly for our new house.....Sanyo 15".
 
bnet said:
Not sure if its been mentioned before, but heres the problem.

The electricity building is a listed building and can't be touched. This building was originally built as a railway turntable, so as that history. They can build around it or over it and they are looking at it as an indoor event venue now as its very big. They don't have planning permission yet so they have to sort this out.


Tell you about Rodgers later !
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Cmon stop teasing, what's the BR gossip ffs???????
 
Fucking loved this.
Leicester has ,
10 scheduled monuments..
14 grade one listed buildings.
36 grade two listed buildings.

That's it .


The raw Dyke's drops into the scheduled monuments category. Don't know what they intend to do but I really hope it's something special .
 
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