Alan Pickles
Bingley
Thursday, February 7, 2013 17:57 |
Wet Ings Lane.
I thought that I knew my way around the village but this one has thrown me completely. Where is Wet Ings Lane please? |
Tony Ingham
Sutton
Thursday, February 7, 2013 19:19 |
Try between the Church School and St. Thomas Church Alan |
Terry Longbottom
Valley
Thursday, February 7, 2013 20:45 |
Tony thats gaterings lane, wet ings lane runs from the top of the field behined the parish hall to fall bridge |
Andrew Monkhouse
Hanoi, Vietnam
Thursday, February 7, 2013 21:35 |
Hmm, now it's my turn to be confused! where the hecky thump is the Parish Hall and Fall Bridge? |
Paul Wilkinson
webmaster
Friday, February 8, 2013 06:55 |
I think this page may show the tree in question, taken at the top of High Street, Bay Horse in the background. Wet Ings Lane runs to the left on the far side of Fall Bridge, along the side of the beck and leads to Gatering Lane which emerges between St Thomas' Church and the Church School.
Google maps shows the location of Gatering Lane and Wet Ings Lane.
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Robin Longbottom
Oakworth
Friday, February 8, 2013 09:30 |
The orchard that Terry is referring to is now the car park to the Bay Horse. I think the tree was felled in the very early 1970's. Stanley Matthews and I walked up to the Bay Horse from the King's Arms one Friday night (Ithink), it was back end and dark, we heard a loud crack and when we rounded onto Fall Bridge the tree had dropped a huge limb right across the road. We had to climb through the branches to get to the pub for a beer, well we were desperate. The leaves had already dropped. Traffic was diverted around through Harper Square. Following this event the tree was declared unsafe and despite a public outcry it was felled shortly afterwards. I seem to recall that a replacement was planted.
Talking of Fall Bridge I can recall climbing over the wall and playing in the beck and being told off as two kiddies had been drowned there in the 1920's. I believe they were called Melia.
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Terry Longbottom
Valley
Friday, February 8, 2013 10:41 |
Very sorry for the confusion I have caused, to explain. Wet Ings is the portion of land from Park Lane in the east ,to Gaterings lane in the west. From the road now called Main street in the north up to the place where the ground starts to rise in the south. Wet ings lane forms the top of the T, Gaterings lane the Leg |
Andrew Monkhouse
Hanoi, Vietnam
Friday, February 8, 2013 13:26 |
Ah, gotchya!
On Wet Ings Lane there’s a hole in the wall where the lock-up garages are which leads to Greenroyd Drive & Harper Grove where I used to live. I must have walked along Wet Ings Lane hundreds of times when I lived in Sutton never realizing this is what it was called. I’ve always thought the entire stretch of footpath from the Church School/St Thomas’ Church to Fall Bridge was Gatering Lane. Similarly I never knew that particular bridge was called Fall Bridge.....Hmm!
As for the two kiddies that drowned there in the 1920s, I wonder if that was the same incident where two boys fell into Sutton beck when it was in flood and their bodies were later found down at the Basins where the River Aire and Sutton Beck meet?
Sounds like you had a rather lucky escape Robin when you & Stanley were on your way to the Bay Horse for a couple of jars. Glad you managed to clamber over the beast in time for last orders! Actually I do have a vague recollection of that ‘dangerous’ tree being chopped down. |
Alan Pickles
Bingley
Friday, February 8, 2013 18:17 |
Thank you all. I only asked, I didn't want to start a battle. |
Brenda Whitaker
Queensland Australia
Friday, February 8, 2013 21:51 |
This has been an interesting posting - loved reading it - thanks for starting it off Alan - now I know where Wetings lane is too. Was Fall Bridge named before or after the tree 'fell'....? ? |
Terry Longbottom
Valley
Friday, February 8, 2013 23:29 |
Hi Brenda just above the bridge in the beck is a vertical wall this is to lift the flow of the water.at the high level built into the east wall of the beck is a sluice gate, this gate allows water to travel down the sluice that runs parallel to wet ings lane to fill the dam to the rear of Hartley’s mill. any water that was not used to feed the mill dam fell from the higher level to the lower.
p.s. has anyone noticed the man with the saw in the photo
please end this now |
Andrew Monkhouse
Hanoi, Vietnam
Saturday, February 9, 2013 04:42 |
Well I wasn’t sure who the guy on the tree was Terry. It did cross my mind that it could have been either Robin or Stanley singing & zigzagging their way back home from the Bay Horse the following morning after their close encounter the night before! |
Nikki Barrett
Sutton
Saturday, February 9, 2013 14:07 |
Robin was my dad with you that night? David Barrett? ,o) (I'm one of the twins) |
Tony Ingham
Sutton
Saturday, February 9, 2013 19:24 |
I think the tree in the photograph is-was an ash tree & not beech? |
Anne Matthews nee Currie
Sutton-in-Craven
Saturday, February 9, 2013 21:12 |
Andrew Squires says the tree was a beech tree |
Robin Longbottom
Oakworth
Sunday, February 10, 2013 08:34 |
Well. It looks a though this one might run longer than the Mousetrap. I went into the King's Arms last year and couldn't recognise a face and I now find a number of them sitting at home online - Terry, Tony, David (via Nikki), Anne, plus a number of other contributors. Well done Terry.
Terry I think it's down to you to set a date to meet at the Bay Horse to hold a full and heated debate on the subject of the tree in question - it's location, genus, persons present as the limb dropped and the year it was felled. I'll run a three line whip and round up all parties, those in the Antipodes may appoint proxies if they wish. An independent arbitrator maybe required. |
Barbara Chapman
Sutton-in-Craven
Sunday, February 10, 2013 14:08 |
To continue this saga.......
For those of you who have one of Doris Riley's books you will find a photo of the said tree and a poem about it.
Doris was a bit particular regarding copyright but I am sure she would have loved this web site and so I will type out what it says on the page for the benefit of those who do not possess the book - OWD SETTINGS - Page 41 -
"Centre of photo, ancient tree, garage, the former cobblers shop, circle in front of seat, site of the fountain and Towngate House. A bench has replaced the seat.
The tree was chopped down, almost secretly! in November 1979, a huge beautiful tree at all times of the year. Measured with a clothes line, April 6th, 1973, the girth was 14ft 11 ins."
Poem by Mrs. Betty Richardson, nee Brooksbank.
THE BIG BEECH TREE
" They've chopped our local beech tree down,
It wasn't very sporting,
We've spent some happy hours there,
Sheltering and courting.
It grew up with the village,
And like us all got old,
But what a lovely sight it was,
As leaves all turned to gold.
Now from my bedroom window,
Much farther I can see,
But I would rather stand and stare,
At that old, big beech tree."
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Brenda Whitaker
Queensland Australia
Sunday, February 10, 2013 20:41 |
Thanks for that Barbara - To think I grew up in the village and cant even remember it - mind you 1979 was 18 years after I left but the amazing thing about getting old is how many 'old' things you do remember.....this has been a good thread - thanks everybody - keep it going
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Andrew Monkhouse
Hanoi, Vietnam
Sunday, February 10, 2013 22:15 |
It looks like there's another image of the monster Beech in question on page 18 of the book "Sutton-in-Craven - The Old Community" edited by Alec Wood. |
Andrew Monkhouse
Hanoi, Vietnam
Monday, February 11, 2013 10:45 |
I've just discovered that the same picture as mentioned in my above post is also featured in the gallery on this website. It is image No 17 under the heading High Street in 'The Glyn Whiteoak Collection'.
The difference being that the image in the gallery can be significantly enlarged by clicking on it, almost to the point that the leaves of the tree could potentially be identified…..I did say almost! That said I’m not trying to cast doubt on the fact that it was a Beech tree…..allegedly! |
Terry Longbottom
Valley
Monday, February 11, 2013 21:56 |
Ash tree branches grow in a reach for the sky sort of way and the ash has a rough bark.
The Beech has a smoother bark that does not repair its self, initials caved on the trunk stay there for as long as the tree does. The branches can be classed as spreading when in leaf cast a dark shaddow bellow them. Which type do you recall standing at the top of (The Plantation)
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