Off Topic Spring Bank West Extension

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Hot_Fluff

Hot_Fluff

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I think this was the official name of the strip of grass land than ran from B.Batch Engineering (near Frank Dee's) to Springhead pumping station. When we were kids it was flat , grassed, cut by the council and we played football on it for hours. I remember it had a black cinder cycle track along one side. The weeks coming up to bonfire night every year, older lads in crombies and doc martens would build a teepee like bonfire and guard it from the
Sangwins of Anlaby. The lads on our
side were from Willerby road, Wold road, Springbank etc. I had occasion to walk down there the other day and it had changed dramatically, overgrown with a winding track meandering through the undergrowth. Oh how time changes things. Well it was 40 years ago.
 
Hot_Fluff said:
I think this was the official name of the strip of grass land than ran from B.Batch Engineering (near Frank Dee's) to Springhead pumping station. When we were kids it was flat , grassed, cut by the council and we played football on it for hours. I remember it had a black cinder cycle track along one side. The weeks coming up to bonfire night every year, older lads in crombies and doc martens would build a teepee like bonfire and guard it from the
Sangwins of Anlaby. The lads on our
side were from Willerby road, Wold road, Springbank etc. I had occasion to walk down there the other day and it had changed dramatically, overgrown with a winding track meandering through the undergrowth. Oh how time changes things. Well it was 40 years ago.
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Lad I was at school with lived in Dunston Road, he had a non-road-legal tiger cub which we all used to fall off of on that bit of land. That's going back 50-odd years now.
 
Spring Bank West Extension is the line of an aquifer pipe serving the pumping station. When the pumping station was open as a museum you could look down the well + see where the water from the aquifer entered. All the housing in the immediate area are served by cast iron undergound drainage systems to minimise leakage into the groundwater.
 
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