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Amazing! Omg smashing... Makes me want to go again to Armlet Mills.

You failed to mention the water fountain that was at the back entrance to Marks & Spencer. It was a sixties square/block modernist water feature but kids use to throw pennies in and make a wish. In hot weather toddlers would sit on the edge and paddle their feet.

Will you be doing piece on Abbey House museum before its proposed closure by LCC ?

Brilliant, used to live not far from there in Rodley. Many thanks for sharing with us.

Thanks for this fascinating history. I have been to the museum a couple of times. It is well worth a visit. Hope Leeds City Council are going to keep it open. They are considering closing Abbey House museum in Kirkstall.

From 1960 to 1973 I walked past here ever day on my to work. I lived in Roseberry Street, off Milford Place and worked as an apprentice at Turner Machinery on Stanningley Road in Bramley. I walked up Milford Place to Canal Road then to Armley Road to get the bus to Turner's. Turner's were the leading manufacturer of tannery machinery and also made plastic injection moulding machines.

Superb overview and the way it was brought to life with some of the owners you mentioned. PS, I too was brought up within the sound of the bells of Christ Church.

I go there alot with kids

How could you leave out The Chained Bull!!!!

My geography teacher puts your videos on in geography😭😭😭😭

My grandad lived on Richmond Street. His mum and dad were Jack and Rosie Gale

not bad just quite boring

Nice. I always remember the little chip shop next to the Army and Navy store and the Duck and Drake . Nice chips at a good price.

Great video, thanks! So funny this should come up because I walked past the street only the other day and wondered what it used to be.

The opening view - Leeds Central Station Hotel, currently has 'City Central 27' above the main door, and the intricate and decorative ironwork of the main staircase in the building is original and has the Railway Company's letters worked into every flight of the stairway. (GNR)? -not confirmed, needs permission to view. When the Wellington Station was first built, it was just one platform, so Leeds Central was built, and Wellington then expanded; that it's full size or width was the length of the remaining existing concourse building, originally part of just the expanded Wellington Station. New Station was originally created(?) when the Marsh Lane Terminus was extended (originally just Marsh Lane to Hull).

Surprised Wallace Arnold’s didn’t get a mention!

What a brilliant video

You imposter Geo hawks all the way!!!

06:38 - City Square: all changed now even in just 3 years since this was filmed. Pedestrianised, no through traffic and new buildings. Even that green cycle lane is gone now. And as someone who lives on Wellington Street (for 15+ years) I like the improvements.

Very interesting thank you

This is absolutely fascinating. I know a lot about Leeds history, but an learning more from your videos. Keep it up x

In morley is was 9 pubs then it was after that tetley enquiry t shirt.

Not drank Tetleys since it went to the darkside

The site of the Old Roundabout and North Sea Chinese is to be a redeveloped for a McDonalds.

It's difficult to describe in words but like others have said the current and future Leeds City Centre has lost its essence and vibrance that it had in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Great series, thanks. My works xmas party was held at the Wellesley in about '89. And I spent many happy hours in La Grillade, under the hotel, undoubtedly one of the best of the old Leeds restaurants (and one of the relatively few, compared to today!)

Doesn't it say "ironmongers and tinners?"

I have lived in Leeds all my life and never heard of Steander until it appeared today on the weather report on my phone. Apparently I was in Steander at 2.58. I was actually in the bus station, but how did the weather report know that name? The video is fabulous, even if it is 3 years old. Thank you.

Smoked many a zoot in the summers at Roundhay Park. Good days.

Gosh I’ve been in most of these, always someone in them that I knew as we just toured all of them

actually this video deserves a way more views thanks a lot

What a brilliant short film. I work for Smith of Derby and am privileged and honoured to work on many Potts clocks. In fact most of the ones in the film I have serviced or repaired. Watch out for my van when you’re around Yorkshire it has W Potts and sons on the side.

Great memories. We started at the Tommy Wass and then via Churwell Hill up into Morley to get a good part of a card completed in one night. The Fleece on Churwell Hill is now a Tesco Express, but still has the old pub sign on a pole outside.

That guy at 7:47 walking with his girlfriend is well hot

Following on some of the comments on this video instead of these modern trams like in Manchester Sheffield, wouldn’t it be great if they could put their in a tram system utilising all the existing rail lines that lead out of the centre of the city, in most directions with trams using the same gauge as the railway & also junctioning them out of the rail lines into all Leeds various suburbs and why not make the trams obviously modern but like from their haydays or similar to those in San Francisco, Also give the River Aire a almighty clean up & upgrade as far either side as possible, surly again with modern technologies they could be fit incorporating modern water turbine all along that path which could for example power the whole new tram system or the cities street lighting !!! The expensive of all this would eventually pay for itself,with the electricity generated. 🤓

1984.

They were the days. I think i went in every place you mentioned. You could go out with 20quid back then? With that you could get taxis everywhere. Buy rounds and if you didn't like one nightclub you just went to another couldn't you. Remember getting told when you were a kid what your parents got for a quid and you were like,right ok. Now looking back and seeing what I was getting for a fiver in the eighties the youngens wouldn't believe me today. But watching that brought back some good memories i know that so cheers for the video

As usual brilliantly made video

I now think Leeds is more beautiful than York.

I remember when Briggate was _really_ busy. Uncle B was teaching Aunt R to drive, and he warned her of the congestion at the Headrow traffic lights; there was a queue of three cars ahead. That was about 1959. I remember going to a model railway exhibition in the Corn Exchange in the early '60s. My memory of Kirkgate Market is the stink of fish! Grandad always called the Turk's Head by its old name; my generation called it _Whitelocks_ , but it was always pronounced _Wittlocks_ . In my day the City Varieties was famed for a certain kind of performance, with part-revealing photographs at the main entrance (was that by the _Whore and Strumpet_ ?) I must visit my hometown soon, especially to visit the David Oluwale memorials. Perhaps a video on him might be fitting, to show the darker side of the modern history of Leeds.

A great showcase for visitors and Leodiensians alike.