Just in case anyone who is reading Skreeworld blog who read it in the early days, here is a picture from our beginnings. Back then, we were in to climbing industrial architecture that had significance to me. Here is the Water Tower in Moortown, North Leeds from the foot. I had scaled this many times as a boy so me and K went on a specil mission, from Somerset to reclimb it. Things had changed up there. The fence used to be a wrought iron afair, the type with beaten pearheads passing through two flat, steel plates. One had been removed, another bent so a child could easily slip through. Now, the common security fence of pressed galvanised steel bent in to a tri pronged top, above which are coils of razor wire. Our hands were torn and bloody and we scaled this with a ladder which we through over. Inside in the old days we would shiny across a pipe that had a final hurle of another fence round the pipe. On our return anothe fence encloses the Tower. To scale this fence we were fortunate to find a cable real that we rolled over and climbed this, then the fence. The ladder got us on to the base. The spiral wrougt iron spiral stairway has ben replaced by a ladder nd backscratcher. This is harder work but somehow less frightening. At the top a safety fence has been erected. As boys, this was a nine inch wall, very scary. The tower is one of the highest points in Leeds and allows one to view the city in a way otherwise impossible, much like Londons Eye.
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