[tomtom]

Climbing works annual membership is £300
The Edge annual membership is £300
The Foundry annual membership is £280
Awesome Walls annual membership is £360
Leeds Wall annual membership is £300

Hull Wall annual pass is £350....

Or £7.50 a visit (and £10 a year membership)
I have talked about this to the owner before (actually every year when asked for my £10!!)
Bah humbug...

[Iesu]

My sentiments too, thats why I never buy annual membership to any wall, but no ones forcing you to.

I was simply pointing out that its not that out of line with other walls pricing policies.

I agree entirely. also keen to point out that in response to the imminent opening of Citybloc, Leeds Wall has now offered a bouldering only entry price of £4.50, although it's not very obviously pointed out to you as you hand over your cash (to be fair, the fact that the sign-in sheet now asks you to tick a box saying "bouldering" or "roped climbing" or "both" is a bit of a give-away).

[tomtom]

thats a crafty idea....

[andy_e]

Leeds Wall has now offered a bouldering only entry price of £4.50

Hallefuckinglujah.

[slackline]

Leeds Wall has now offered a bouldering only entry price of £4.50

Hallefuckinglujah.

Theres no need to sully this fine forum with such tripe andi

[Ste]

No need for any more 'north Leeds gossip'.

Well done on the detective work. We have had a number a delays with one thing and another but we are now well into the build of The Depot.

The facts are..
   Construction is underway
   Around 1,300 square metres of climbing surface
   Gym/conditioning room
   Cafe
   Climbing shop
   Location- Richardshaw Lane, Leeds (near Pudsey just off the ring road)   Opposite a good pub and an award winning Indian Restaurant and bar
   Ample parking
   Swanky changing rooms with showers etc...
      
The climbing will consist of a dedicated circuit area with hundreds of problems throughout the grades. The competition wall will have loads of graded problems for all abilities. In addition to this we are including a section which will provide extended 'route style' problems.

The Depot will also provide a dedicated training area with campus boards, fixed 50 degree, system board, olympic rings etc...

We are keen for folks to pop by and give us some input during construction.
If you are keen then drop me an email......

Cheers from the Depot team

[Johnny Brown]

Forgive me if I'm being an idiot but does that mean there are going to be two new bouldering walls in Leeds?

[Stubbs]

Affirmative, or three if you include the slight renovations (including putting a campus board back in) that are taking place at Leeds wall...

[tomtom]

Affirmative, or three if you include the slight renovations (including putting a campus board back in) that are taking place at Leeds wall...

Hang on, I must be a bit slow - forgive me, so does this mean that there is going to be:

1. Leeds wall (& bouldering area)
2. Citybloc place (not open yet.. location?)
3. The Depot (now being built in Pudsey)

(and of course the university wall..)

[andy_e]

That's correct (don't forget Henry Price though!)

[thustler]

All this in Leeds and still nowt in Bradford

[Serpico]

All this in Leeds and still nowt in Bradford

Especially with Leeds, and Pudsey in particular, being so far away from Bradford...

[SA Chris]

still nowt in Bradford

Was there ever anything? At all?

[tomtom]

All this in Leeds and still nowt in Bradford

 

and theres such a shortage of places to climb outside around Bradford too 

[thustler]

Thats no good when its pissing it down, and fair enough leeds isn't miles off but 3 walls in Leeds none in Bradford just seems wrong.

[slackline]

Thats no good when its pissing it down, and fair enough leeds isn't miles off but 3 walls in Leeds none in Bradford just seems wrong.

You've found an opening in the market then!  Get to work 

[tomtom]

Thats no good when its pissing it down, and fair enough leeds isn't miles off but 3 walls in Leeds none in Bradford just seems wrong.

Forgive my previous sarcy post, but I live in Hull, so on those nice summer eves when you can just bob out to Shipley or wherever, think of me pelting it along the m62 for an hour and a bit to get to Godscliff.. We have a wall in Hull, and whilst its OK, it doesnt stop me travelling to the Works fairly regularly and probably soon these new Leeds Walls...

Personally, I'm not sure its healthy having 3 bouldering venues in Leeds (sorry 4 - forgot the Henry price  ) as surely theres not enough market share for all of them? - and could this also lead to things getting a bit cliquey? (sp?)...

Like slackers says, if theres the market - get one built! but I recon there are other cities where there could be more demand\bigger catchment... any ideas??

[Brolly]

Hi Thustler,

Although Pudsey is classed as Leeds, it's actually closer to Bradford city centre (4.5 miles to BD1) than it is Leeds city centre (5.6 miles).  The location of the Depot having fast access from Bradford, North and West Leeds, M62 etc is one of the key reasons why we picked that location, it's about 100 meters from the Stanningley bypass.

Cheers Oliver

[thustler]

  Thats good to know will it be easy enuff to get to by public transport?

[Brolly]

Thats good to know will it be easy enuff to get to by public transport?

You can either get the train direct from Bradford to New Pudsey, which takes 8 mins and then it's just over half a mile walk from the station or catch the number 72 bus which takes 19 mins and then it's about a 200 meter walk, either way it's easy.  Direct trains from Leeds in 11 mins as well.

We are also planning to have a bike rack within the building, if you fancy cycling in.

Cheers Oliver

[SA Chris]

will there be spoonfeeding available

Seems like every city I live in gets a bouldering facility after I leave. This one and the Bristol one would have been right on my commute. Maybe Aberdeen is next?

[thustler]

Lol excuse the silly questions I'm a student.

[Jaspersharpe]

Man alive people don't know they're fucking born nowadays do they!? When I were a lad the nearest wall of any description was 120 mile round trip into Central London. And it was fucking shit. Didn't stop me from getting strong. Jesus.

 

[a dense loner]

not to mention sitting on the bus for 50 mins to get to manchester then getting the train to grindleford only to get off and walk to stoney for a couple of hours climbing. didn't stop me from getting, oh shit!

my heart bleeds for people these days, they put up with so much

[SA Chris]

Lol excuse the silly questions I'm a student.

Indeed. Glad that tertiary education isn't going to waste. They let anyone in these days