I was born in Leeds in 1954.Still here living in Chapeltown as allways.I love Leeds but like many people my age I wish it was more like it then than now.We have managed to take all its character away trying to make it the New York of he North of England.Just take a look at Leeds Kirkgate Market.The last of the butchers shops on butchers row as closed.This row had been there for a 120 years.Sad.
I was born 1979 in Leeds (grew up in Harehills) My dad was a postie in Chapeltown for over 20 years and I went to St Dominic’s ..Nice to meet you And yes it’s very sad to see ..I remember begging my mam to take me down butchers row so I could look at the young lads haha
@@rebeccam9 I have never heard anyone from Leeds call a postman a postie I am 75 and also grew up in Newtown and Harehills It's not an expression we use
Elephants Memory it’s just something I say and heard loads of leeds people say (we are of different generations so maybe why?) ..Quite a strange thing to be concerned about
@@rebeccam9 my brother had a shop on butchers row for years but the council rents got so high it was impossible to make a decent living from it. I wonder now if the council planned this to shut it down as is now the case. The market is nothing like it was. Shame really. Take care. 😊
Last photo is the Parade at Saxton Gardens flats.I used to deliever the Evening Post from the newsagents from around 79' to 86' (The Garth and Flax Place was my 'round') the owners were Brian and Audrey Holbert at the time (sadly Audrey passed on and Brian didn't have the shop long after if i remember rightly)...Also the fish & chip shop that was being opened by Pat Phoenix was at Lincoln Green in the shopping square,my mum worked at the chippy for years as well... Great video thx for posting.
The Parade right at the end there, from Saxton Gardens. I lived there in the 80s, remember in the Off License it was Mrs Ramsay, the bread shop Mrs Lyons and I think it was Brian and Audrey in the sweet/paper shop.
Yeah, I remember the bandstand, but do you remember before the bandstand, it use to be a grey brick square with things inside it. Seeing them pics bring so many memorys back. Lived in Seacroft most my life until I moved away 18 yrs ago. Seacroft Shopping centre was a big part of life back then.... Ohhh I feel old....
yes it was a very sour point depending who spoke too about it lol learnt to swim at the John smeaton`s pool and later high diving at the International, damn them steep narrow concrete steps to the top boards. Boy o boy it didn`t look much but the first time looing over the edge of the 10 meter board, yep you cac yourself lol
@@yorkiepudd7404 I used to train at both pools. John Smeaton's used to be nice and warm at 6am in the morning. However during the miners strike, I can remember training in cold water with candles at the side of the pool
Thanks for posting this vid. I love looking at how places used to be. The swimming pool at 1:47 was pulled down not so long back. I am now trying to spot all the Wetherpoons pubs (as they were back then).
I was a site planner on the Seacroft Shopping Centre ! was present when the Queen opened it there was one precinct with one side incomplete so we built just the front elevation with goods in the window all lit up just like a film set so her Majestydid not see a building site.
Wow, i actually remember all those places...i suddenly feel like Sam Tyler ;) Although i did notice, or maybe missed, pictures of pre St. Johns Centre when it was all like buildings.... Great sideshow though
Building `up` in the sixties was the easy option your government of the day took. Go today and see for yourself...all over our country ..the skyline is littered with these concrete monsters? Yes you are right...things were more traditional then...oh please take me back....please!
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I love it. My favourite 60s building is the International Pool. Shame to see it go.We used to say we were going to the olympics for a swim!
i was born mid 70's but i would soooo love to go back to them times when Britain really was Great!!!
Scott Mahoney yay when the U.K. was grey and brown🤷♂️
I was born in Leeds in 1954.Still here living in Chapeltown as allways.I love Leeds but like many people my age I wish it was more like it then than now.We have managed to take all its character away trying to make it the New York of he North of England.Just take a look at Leeds Kirkgate Market.The last of the butchers shops on butchers row as closed.This row had been there for a 120 years.Sad.
I was born 1979 in Leeds (grew up in Harehills) My dad was a postie in Chapeltown for over 20 years and I went to St Dominic’s ..Nice to meet you
And yes it’s very sad to see ..I remember begging my mam to take me down butchers row so I could look at the young lads haha
@@rebeccam9 I have never heard anyone from Leeds call a postman a postie I am 75 and also grew up in Newtown and Harehills It's not an expression we use
Elephants Memory it’s just something I say and heard loads of leeds people say (we are of different generations so maybe why?) ..Quite a strange thing to be concerned about
@@rebeccam9 my brother had a shop on butchers row for years but the council rents got so high it was impossible to make a decent living from it. I wonder now if the council planned this to shut it down as is now the case. The market is nothing like it was. Shame really. Take care. 😊
@@rebeccam9 I'm not concerned at all I have lived abroad for the last 25 years so I was just noticing how local expressions have changed that's all
Very Good use of very good pics,from a very good website, with very good music too!!!!!
seacroft shopping centre was a great place to spend saturdays when you were kid back in the 70s
Last photo is the Parade at Saxton Gardens flats.I used to deliever the Evening Post from the newsagents from around 79' to 86' (The Garth and Flax Place was my 'round') the owners were Brian and Audrey Holbert at the time (sadly Audrey passed on and Brian didn't have the shop long after if i remember rightly)...Also the fish & chip shop that was being opened by Pat Phoenix was at Lincoln Green in the shopping square,my mum worked at the chippy for years as well...
Great video thx for posting.
As ackers sais... very good use of photos and the music is great. I loved the pics of the international pool!
God that a blast from past seacroft shopping centre
The Parade right at the end there, from Saxton Gardens. I lived there in the 80s, remember in the Off License it was Mrs Ramsay, the bread shop Mrs Lyons and I think it was Brian and Audrey in the sweet/paper shop.
at 1:24 that's Poplar Mount . Classed as LS13 but on the borderline of LS12, where I'm watching your video now :)
Yeah, I remember the bandstand, but do you remember before the bandstand, it use to be a grey brick square with things inside it. Seeing them pics bring so many memorys back. Lived in Seacroft most my life until I moved away 18 yrs ago. Seacroft Shopping centre was a big part of life back then.... Ohhh I feel old....
wasnt the swimming pool a couple of inches short of a full pool and as a cnsequence the timings of the races were all dismissed?
yes it was a very sour point depending who spoke too about it lol
learnt to swim at the John smeaton`s pool and later high diving at the International, damn them steep narrow concrete steps to the top boards. Boy o boy it didn`t look much but the first time looing over the edge of the 10 meter board, yep you cac yourself lol
@@yorkiepudd7404 I used to train at both pools. John Smeaton's used to be nice and warm at 6am in the morning. However during the miners strike, I can remember training in cold water with candles at the side of the pool
Yes that is correct. I used to swim for Leeds Central. As a child, I was told that it was designed by John Poulson
Thanks for posting this vid. I love looking at how places used to be. The swimming pool at 1:47 was pulled down not so long back. I am now trying to spot all the Wetherpoons pubs (as they were back then).
02:12 Hunslet Grange aka Leek Street Flats aka Alcatraz! I was born there in ‘72.
That sculpter at 0:35 is still alive and well though it has been relocated. Great vid, thanks for posting.
Superb music from the legend Mr Brian Wilson
wonderful slice of Leeds from the 60s
do you have any cine film of Leeds in the 60s
I remember the signs "Leeds, Motorway City of the
70s " I've seen an office I worked in...eeek !
Good old leeds nice vid
I was a site planner on the Seacroft Shopping Centre ! was present when the Queen opened it there was one precinct with one side incomplete so we built just the front elevation with goods in the window all lit up just like a film set so her Majestydid not see a building site.
sad to see the Merrion center now,sane with the Corn Exchange
Wow, i actually remember all those places...i suddenly feel like Sam Tyler ;)
Although i did notice, or maybe missed, pictures of pre St. Johns Centre when it was all like buildings....
Great sideshow though
remember the bandstand downstairs in the seacroft centre
Wonderful music what isit?
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys.
Thank you for this video. My god that architecture was dreadful, what a mess! Thankfully it's almost all been torn down...
And replaced by different shite
Concrete, Cortinas and Helvetica. Very 60s.
It was so much better then.
Eh???? Are you sure you're not just mixing up the fact that you were younger and happier then? The city looks a million times better today.
Funnily enough, it was much more safer and calmer in those days. Its a violent, crazy hellhole these days.
+Matthew Gaunt excellent point.
What is this music?
like the rothwell pic...precinct, just been knocked down
i love my leeds and yorkshire....proubd to be a yorkish
Avid Merrion would like this
I don't see any HUMANS? Nice shots!
Building `up` in the sixties was the easy option your government of the day took. Go today and see for yourself...all over our country ..the skyline is littered with these concrete monsters? Yes you are right...things were more traditional then...oh please take me back....please!
Rothwell should not have been included,it only became Leeds in 1974!!
Tags on the last building. No one did that until late 70's early 80''s
the croft
I don't see any immigrants? Great pics
...oh god, there's always one.
I always want to go back and see what it was like back then. Then I remember the racism.
Horrendous sixties architecture ! 😡