Oh Boy, Nostalgia in bucket loads. I drove to Leeds last friday for the first time in a few years...its a strange place to me now having lived there from 1974-85, and worked there until 95. I thought I knew it like the back of my hand...not now I don't.
@@jamesbovington8218 Do some research, the first ever moving picture in the world (now known as a video) was taken in Leeds had the inventor not had died (murdered) Leeds would of been the Hollywood of today, we had battle of Leeds where the king was in Leeds city centre. Leeds was ahead of the world for factorys making clothes etc we was way infront of every other country, but without really knowing it at the time. now it is a shithole overrun by foreigners.
Nostalgia, sadness and pride in equal measure - and great to see the Griffin Hotel in whose bar and then bedroom I had my first clandestine liaison - with a woman twice my then (and more or less half my current) age.
Living in Castkeford these days ..well someone has to ..oh i do love my childhood memories of Leeds..Hunslet..Beeston ..Holbeck ...and Miggy ...ahh those really were the days ..
@@jamesbovington8218 Sounds like todays world that mate kids running riot everywhere the old days were better i was a 70's kid we never had any parent that would gamble away their money and beat up mothers prob depends where you grew up i suppose
My first sight of Leeds city centre in the '70s was of that line of black-and-white "land crab" taxis outside the railway-station, plus the convenient high-floored Mercedes minibus service that ran from the bus-stop at 3.15 up towards Schofield's store (as it still was) on the Heathrow
Leeds may be a big international city and financial hot spot these days but the city I was born in and lived all my life in has long gone. So many deprived crime ridden no go areas and litter strewn streets. Very sad.
I’d probably say crime was worse then. No cctv and phones = a person less likely to be caught for their crimes. Even litter was probably worse then due to the stewardship of the planet not being as important then. E.g. less recycling bins and public bins in general
@@efosaogunbor779 look at the crime stats nationally. For all the tech hardly any crime is punished. From rape to burglary the police are completely ineffectual. The streets were safer to walk back in the day. Crime has always been with us and always will be but at a level nowadays we never saw in the 50s to 70s.
@@davidgibbs7232 Never had a chance to see bc the technology wasn’t there to see said crimes. The crime stats only equate to crimes that have been caught but if there are less facilities and a lot less technology to catch those crimes, well then there’s an increased chance that crime could increase/be higher. Tbh we’ll never know objectively if either of us are right
I’m from leeds and I live in Derbyshire just outside sheffield, you think leeds is bad you want to see or be around sheffield, it’s a absolute shit hole n getting worse.
The only constant is that time and things will change, for better or worse, its down to us. Beautiful pictures of how we used to live but they're pictures nonetheless. Thank you for the memories! 🙂
When you're born and bred in a place you think you know so well then you see pictures of how it was before you was born. Some vague memories here and there but I never knew about Quarry hill estate, subways on Briggate, Briggate having a through road and City square being a roundabout! You what?!? Another 2 or 3 more decades and it will change again 😭
I was born in Leeds in 1954.Lived here all my life and regardless of a lot of regeneration I still think it was better then than it is now.Too many people that do not connect with anyone.Drugs.crime, people trafficking and overall criminality with a justice system and a health service that are just not fit for the purpose they were set up.I doubt if brexit will make much difference in my lifetime.If indeed it will ever happen.I know I am an endangered species.An Englishman.The Leeds and indeed the country I was born in has long gone.Like the famous novel and film Gone With The Wind.Sad.
@@questionsonchristianity8204 If you are happy with it all the bloody best to you.You are probably in the minority or have only just come to live here.
Bring back the old Leeds!! Used to visit the city centre back in the 90`s and early noughties. Since 2010 its become a rotten hellhole, extremely violent and totally crazy. Stopped going years ago, even the train station has an air of aggression about it.
+trippy 119, couldn`t of put it better myself. It truly is a dump. The city started to suffer when third world citizens started to take it over. Like many other UK cities, Leeds has lost its identity. I remember Bradford from the 90`s, it was going down the plughole faster then Usain Bolt!!! The city is finished, thanks to a government of scumbags, its more unequal than it ever was before. Its full of chancers who are out to screw as much cash out of you as they can.
)lovely snaps of Leeds Central happy startof Journeys toLondon and Bradford Exchange,pleb free station in my Boyhood they were all getting on at City to St Pancras .
There's two bus stations in this video. What we referred to as the green bus station (2:23) and the red bus station (2:28). Green buses were mainly in and around Leeds, and the red buses were mainly out of Leeds.
Does anyone remember the Briggate Bababoys? A group of youths said to be from Gipton ,though some said Belle Isle ,who would after the hours of Darkness defacate on that famous thoroughfare.At the height of their turd driven menace members of the old Leeds City Police would wait to pounce on them from Whitelocks however on most occasions when the time came for action the officers were impeded by drink.Saw the Leeds skyline today from south of the city,lots of big buildings likeBirmingham butBirmingham has nicer more courteous shopgirls ,never mind the defacation
@@martynscargill5845 Not really, the coal from production, home fires electrical production caused horrific bronchial disorders for generations to suffer in. Cars aren't great but its relative, and fortunately they wont be a great issue for much longer.
i disagree theres a lot of money in leeds all the new buildings that have been built are top class and awesome to look at and then you have the old buildings that remain that also look awesome to look at shows the history of leeds hope they never get rid of some of them
Awww, the old bus station! Got a lump in my throat now. Leeds has changed so much!
For the worse unfortunately
Lovely to see, brings back happy memories, at the same time makes me feel rather old
Oh Boy, Nostalgia in bucket loads. I drove to Leeds last friday for the first time in a few years...its a strange place to me now having lived there from 1974-85, and worked there until 95. I thought I knew it like the back of my hand...not now I don't.
Thanks for all the positive messages
Brings back wonderful memories 😊😢
Just lovely, especially the music you've chosen. Boy, it took me back. Thank you.
So I remember Leeds in 1950-60. Thank you so much!
Awesome video! *thumbs up* born and bred in Leeds
Me too. No better than it was. Disappointing uninspiring place. Needs a metro system.
@@jamesbovington8218 Do some research, the first ever moving picture in the world (now known as a video) was taken in Leeds had the inventor not had died (murdered) Leeds would of been the Hollywood of today, we had battle of Leeds where the king was in Leeds city centre. Leeds was ahead of the world for factorys making clothes etc we was way infront of every other country, but without really knowing it at the time. now it is a shithole overrun by foreigners.
Bloody marvellous. I even shed a few. Thanks, Paul S.
Nostalgia, sadness and pride in equal measure - and great to see the Griffin Hotel in whose bar and then bedroom I had my first clandestine liaison - with a woman twice my then (and more or less half my current) age.
That's nothing to brag about.
@@questionsonchristianity8204 Read your bible - Jesus said Judge not lest ye be judged.
@@hereandthere4763 👍
lovely memories
Great city great people my city.
Living in Castkeford these days ..well someone has to ..oh i do love my childhood memories of Leeds..Hunslet..Beeston ..Holbeck ...and Miggy ...ahh those really were the days ..
Were they? What about the kids I went to primary school with whose dad's gambled all the money away and beat up the mothers?
@@jamesbovington8218 Sounds like todays world that mate kids running riot everywhere the old days were better i was a 70's kid we never had any parent that would gamble away their money and beat up mothers prob depends where you grew up i suppose
@@nickda1 Belle Isle. South Leeds.
@@jamesbovington8218 Enough said lol not the best area to live in but everywhere has the best and worst parts to it
My first sight of Leeds city centre in the '70s was of that line of black-and-white "land crab" taxis outside the railway-station, plus the convenient high-floored Mercedes minibus service that ran from the bus-stop at 3.15 up towards Schofield's store (as it still was) on the Heathrow
Great collection of photos.
magic memories :-)
Thanks Paul 😊
wow just turned 40 and lived in leeds all my life and how things change and you dont notice ..granary wharfe wow what a transformation.
Lovely photos! :D
Leeds tram #180 is at Crich tram museum.
Great video, it's the best of Leeds!!
Leeds may be a big international city and financial hot spot these days but the city I was born in and lived all my life in has long gone. So many deprived crime ridden no go areas and litter strewn streets. Very sad.
I’d probably say crime was worse then. No cctv and phones = a person less likely to be caught for their crimes. Even litter was probably worse then due to the stewardship of the planet not being as important then. E.g. less recycling bins and public bins in general
@@efosaogunbor779 look at the crime stats nationally. For all the tech hardly any crime is punished. From rape to burglary the police are completely ineffectual. The streets were safer to walk back in the day. Crime has always been with us and always will be but at a level nowadays we never saw in the 50s to 70s.
@@davidgibbs7232 Never had a chance to see bc the technology wasn’t there to see said crimes. The crime stats only equate to crimes that have been caught but if there are less facilities and a lot less technology to catch those crimes, well then there’s an increased chance that crime could increase/be higher. Tbh we’ll never know objectively if either of us are right
I’m from leeds and I live in Derbyshire just outside sheffield, you think leeds is bad you want to see or be around sheffield, it’s a absolute shit hole n getting worse.
@@deno909probably fair to say every big city in the UK is pretty shitty these days.London of course being top of the heap.
The only constant is that time and things will change, for better or worse, its down to us.
Beautiful pictures of how we used to live but they're pictures nonetheless.
Thank you for the memories! 🙂
Last photo is Alvin Morris ltd where my dad worked! It is now the Leeds Armouries
When you're born and bred in a place you think you know so well then you see pictures of how it was before you was born. Some vague memories here and there but I never knew about Quarry hill estate, subways on Briggate, Briggate having a through road and City square being a roundabout! You what?!? Another 2 or 3 more decades and it will change again 😭
Hell's teef, Big Lil's. What a classy place!
I used to go to Big Lil’s!
Great Photos, thanks bud
Super video, many thanks. .......
I saw The Meteors at the Astoria. Good times.
I was born in Leeds in 1954.Lived here all my life and regardless of a lot of regeneration I still think it was better then than it is now.Too many people that do not connect with anyone.Drugs.crime, people trafficking and overall criminality with a justice system and a health service that are just not fit for the purpose they were set up.I doubt if brexit will make much difference in my lifetime.If indeed it will ever happen.I know I am an endangered species.An Englishman.The Leeds and indeed the country I was born in has long gone.Like the famous novel and film Gone With The Wind.Sad.
Moan moan moan whinge negativity blah blah blah.
@@questionsonchristianity8204 If you are happy with it all the bloody best to you.You are probably in the minority or have only just come to live here.
@@questionsonchristianity8204why is he being negative sherlock?! C'mon smart arse lets hear your explanation!
Lived in Leeds my whole 65 years and if I am honest I sometimes long for the old Leeds back.It was a safer nicer place to live than it is now.
Bring back the old Leeds!! Used to visit the city centre back in the 90`s and early noughties. Since 2010 its become a rotten hellhole, extremely violent and totally crazy. Stopped going years ago, even the train station has an air of aggression about it.
Could not agree more.
Amen to that.
+trippy 119, couldn`t of put it better myself. It truly is a dump. The city started to suffer when third world citizens started to take it over. Like many other UK cities, Leeds has lost its identity. I remember Bradford from the 90`s, it was going down the plughole faster then Usain Bolt!!! The city is finished, thanks to a government of scumbags, its more unequal than it ever was before. Its full of chancers who are out to screw as much cash out of you as they can.
Yes it used to be very safe when the Yorkshire ripper was walking the streets with his hammer.
)lovely snaps of Leeds Central happy startof Journeys toLondon and Bradford Exchange,pleb free station in my Boyhood they were all getting on at City to St Pancras .
That's the bus station? Wow. I have wondered what that building was and have never been able to find out.
There's two bus stations in this video. What we referred to as the green bus station (2:23) and the red bus station (2:28).
Green buses were mainly in and around Leeds, and the red buses were mainly out of Leeds.
I'm getting old lol
Ohh yeah, 1:21 the red car is a WillysOverland (one word) from 1921. 3.7ltr, Taxed & tested, still on the road !
May I know what song background that you used? Thank you very much for your answer.
Hi,
it's the instrumental version of "Somewhere only we know" by Keane.
Thank you, Paul.
I assume that you live in Leeds?
I sure do. Super Leeds!
Great photos, but would be really helpful if titles were given to each photo to make identification easier...
Big Lils, met met my wife in the nightclub upstairs and been married 21 years.
Spooks lol
Good old stringa beads (Leeds)
I live here and go to mount st marys
Aww this is it dose Meanwood sound good enough for a younger me to grow up in and miss all of everything for the sake of nill. Serupticous?
Does anyone remember the Briggate Bababoys? A group of youths said to be from Gipton ,though some said Belle Isle ,who would after the hours of Darkness defacate on that famous thoroughfare.At the height of their turd driven menace members of the old Leeds City Police would wait to pounce on them from Whitelocks however on most occasions when the time came for action the officers were impeded by drink.Saw the Leeds skyline today from south of the city,lots of big buildings likeBirmingham butBirmingham has nicer more courteous shopgirls ,never mind the defacation
2:03 looks like seacroft
I think its Lovell Park Road opposite the big Lloyds bank building
"Time waits for no man" but not all 'progress' is good.
2.17 is that Burtons arcade ? what a dump
Things have in general terms improved over the years ! Leeds has become a great place to live and belong to. Super Leeds.
i live in leeds lol
Cities were awful back in the day, now you can actually walk around without choking.
You are now choking on traffic fumes. Far more noxious than coal smoke. Just less visible !
@@martynscargill5845 Not really, the coal from production, home fires electrical production caused horrific bronchial disorders for generations to suffer in. Cars aren't great but its relative, and fortunately they wont be a great issue for much longer.
How did the good people of Leeds get though their lives without the diversity and multiculturalism that we are fortunate to have today, one asks.
All u negative Nancy's hateing in the comment section 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
God, I feel old. Leeds used to be a great vibrant place, full of character and charm. Now just clinicaly dull and boring.
Eh?! I'm in my 50s and it's livelier now than it ever was
its amazing now used to be a right shithole
That's what they all say 😂😂😂😂😂
Negative nancy
LEEDS IS NOW A THIRD WORLD CITY.
i disagree theres a lot of money in leeds all the new buildings that have been built are top class and awesome to look at and then you have the old buildings that remain that also look awesome to look at shows the history of leeds hope they never get rid of some of them
Your mother is a third world city...
shame they're filling the place with third world people
What do you mean? You sound like a Racist ignorant idiot who lacks basic education
Nothing's changed that much.Still a Toilet.🚾
Its changed a lot do you live in Leeds?
Before it looked like asia
This what the world thinks when they see an entitled, ignorant fool from UK in their land