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Ant Dawson
@railwayhobbit.bsky.social
Historian, Archaeologist, and Museum Professional who is also an Organist, Unitarian, Rower, Geek, into Boardgames, Reenactment, Heavy Metal and with a soupcon of Long-Covid.
Ilkley Moor is the only option. (As well as for "O for a thousand tongues")
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
In exactly the same position, sadly.
December 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There are thousands in the same boat. The Post Finasteride Syndrome Foundation has been set up to help them. There's also a #MeToo on Bluesky.
December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Five years for me. Same reason. Same awful life destroy effect. I'm so sorry.
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Yes. It's horrible and life-destroying. Finasteride is evil stuff
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
To be honest I'd include the 1837 arrivals station as that is mapped. As it the entire layout of the station, including the cattle station, stables etc. it's more relevant to what's on the ground today. Some of it is still there of course.
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Tolkien had some... Challenging .... views about the CofE and dissenters. And also the mass in English.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I wouldn't trust early iconography to be honest. Nasmyth likely to be correct but a lot of the commercial prints are very naive. Rather like trying to recreate L&MR engines & carriages from the Ackermann long prints! A lot of early mapping was based on earlier maps, with additions, or omissions
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December 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Yep. Engine house and chimney tucked in between Water St and the Warehouse. It was only demolished within the last 30-40 years. Sadly, when Liverpool Road was 'restored' in the 80s they cleared away anything which they didn't think was 'original' to 1830 and wiped away a lot of history.
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
north side, and a foot path was made alongside the carriage ramp on the S side. There was a siding with a carriage dock to unload road coaches. The area in front of Liverpool Road station also sported a canopy on iron columns, full width of the passenger part of the building.
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
There was a footbridge, parallel to and contiguous with the Water St Bridge for foot passengers to prevent them walking on the line. The arrivals station of 1833 was a single long shed, brick built with an open front supported by columns. It was paved. There was also a curving carriage ramp on the
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The engine house on the water st end of the 1830 warehouse is missing. There's an archaeological report on it and you can see in the existing building where it abutted and where the line shafting went through it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Arrivals was always between Water St and the Irwell. The original building was much simpler than the 1837. Liverpool Rd was always departures.
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Cannot unsee. Yay.😁
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM