I recently joined the Leeds Photographic Society (LPS), apparently the oldest in the world! I hope to improve my photographic skills by discovering other members techniques, time will tell. Anyhow this last Tuesday, the society meets twice monthly during the summer months, we met at the Leeds Wharf and spent an evening photographing every thing between Leeds and Armley. No crustation, rusting iron, decaying woodwork was left un-photo-digitalized! Let alone shots of the canal, locks, from above, below, along side etc!
It was a good evening for such work, we were observed from the apartmentoes along the riverside by the those who choose an urban lifestyle, while they sipped the Pinot whatever. Every second on the canal side was split by either a rabid mountain biker careering by… or a runner exhalling more CO² as they rhythmically sped past. But between the athleticos cameras snapped and clicked into the setting sun. The picture above is one such shot of a long disused railway viaduct to no-where, crossing the canal, the structure ends abruptly in the urban landscape a few yards/metres to the right!
I like to imagine that had Sir Thomas Gascoigne proceeded with his canal project, the local walks around Parlington would have been greatly enhanced by a waterway and some locks! Aah, well, never mind! The canal proposal on the history site is here.