{"id":879838,"date":"2026-04-08T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/879838\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:24:19","slug":"photos-show-historic-bramley-steam-roller-taking-to-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/879838\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos show historic Bramley steam roller taking to streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By Jane Ellis<\/strong>, of <a href=\"https:\/\/leedscameraclub.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds Camera Club<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The roads of West Leeds echoed on Easter Tuesday with the evocative whistle of a 10-ton steam road roller, as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wallis_%26_Steevens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wallis &amp; Steeven\u2019s<\/a> Roller no 7941 \u201cAdvance\u201d came out of retirement for the day. <\/p>\n<p>She steamed as slowly as her grand old age would allow from her home in Bramley to New Farnley Cricket Club where she was the star attraction at a party staged to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of her owners, John Knapton. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Advance-negotiating-Farnley-rush-hour-728x900.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200912\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>She was built in Basingstoke, Hampshire and worked hard for York Corporation rolling the streets there for nearly thirty years, as the City of York no. 3 Roller. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Advance-steam-roller-900x640.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200913\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>She was sold in 1955 to W &amp; J Glossop Ltd, a West Riding road surface-dressing firm, but continued working in and around the York area until laid up in 1965. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Advances-tax-disc-900x867.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200914\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Purchased for preservation in 1968, she has been fully restored and made road-worthy, complying with modern regulations and only emerging occasionally for steam rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-03-at-13.23.42.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191083\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jane Ellis, of Leeds Camera Club The roads of West Leeds echoed on Easter Tuesday with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[207298,748,249069,393,215174,4884,1860,247444,249070,16,15],"class_list":["post-879838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-bramley","tag-britain","tag-city-no3","tag-england","tag-farnley","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-new-farnley","tag-new-farnley-cricket-club","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116368367452198269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}