Came to Leeds in 1990, as a single mum, recently deserted by the father of my child. My parents had moved there for work following redundancies. I lived in Weetwood with them for 5 years, went out in Headingley a lot. After 5 years, moved into the first home of my own in Meanwood, met and had two more children with another man who deserted us, lived there for 9 years before moving again to Burley in 2004, where I raised my three children alone for the next 14 years, and where I still live. Kids have grown up and moved away for work and University in the North East. Seen many changes in the 32 years I’ve lived here, places I used to live no longer exist or changed beyond recognition, but this is my home, my city now, and for all that, I am grateful.
My family have been in Leeds for many generations and I was born and grew up there until 1985 ...I moved away to get married and continued to visit until my parents passed away over 20 years ago.Happy memories but hardly recognize the place and wouldn't swap my country village life.
I was just in Leeds my home town hadn't been home in 26 years, DejaVu very interesting and loved visiting my friend of many years, but have to say the NEW architecture doesn;t go well with the Leeds that I grew up in I now live in California, but Leeds has my heart and many memories
The first part of the film was alright if you like trams! Nothing of the old Leeds buildings, not even of shot of the Town Hall ! I lived and worked there for 40 years. Happy days during the 50’s and 60’s but Leeds was never the same after the Ceylon Tea Centre and Schofields closed down. The heart went out of the centre, for me anyway. Had to laugh at German Christmas Market ! Good to tell it was in Leeds with the woman blowing on her soup lol!!
I thought they tried a few times to bring them back but nothing happened because of money, if I'm right those guided bus lanes where meant for trams until the money went dry
Chris, blame Leeds City Council's lack of foresight for doing away with the trams. They had all the infrastructure in place and only needed to update the system. It would have been cheaper and cleaner to run. If they tried to rebuild the tram system now, it would cost billions£££s.
Born in Leeds 1935, as a young man I always felt , as my contemporary Alan Bennett put it " as if I was living life on the side-lines " - Yorkshire couldn't even support a symphony orchestra.
You all prolly dont give a damn but does anyone know of a tool to get back into an instagram account? I was dumb lost the account password. I would appreciate any help you can give me.
@Bryan Nasir Thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff now. Seems to take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
@@danielfield2570 So you've never visited Harehills, Chapeltown, Lincoln green, Burmantofts, Armley, Gipton or seacroft then? Deprivation in abundance - There's a lot of inequality in Leeds & the gentrification & insane levels of immigration have only exacerbated the problem!
Leeds was real ---England was real ---it's like everywhere else now ---plastic and pretentious, a fast track journey to a nowhere destination but still the best city in the universe
@@kazamshah4543 yup agreed, thorner and Bramham are very real & they're only 4 miles from the shit hole of Seacroft yet you'd be forgiven for thinking you were in a different country! its the big towns and cities that have lost their identities & sense of civility.
Cheap modern buildings, tarted up old buildings. Leeds is a forgotten city. Where are the back to back houses the sink housing estates, the areas of wasteland neglected by the council? I feel no pride for this neglected city, the people of Leeds deserve better.
well said Geoff, you echo my thoughts- all this talk of the swanky new Leeds, capital of the north bollocks blurp blurp! this city suffers from poor vision & lousy civic leadership- some people see what they want to see and I see leeds for what it is Just a gentrified, overcrowded grubby little dump where all the finery is lathered on the surface just to please all the exiled southerners & the middle class students whilst the rest can go fuck off-
@@billythedog-309 So you've never absorbed the cultural delights of Costa-Del Harehills, Gipton, Burmantofts, Lincoln Green, Chapeltown or Armley then? (you don't know what you're missing (lol)) Leeds is a very divided city with shocking levels of inequality- and the gentrification along with ridiculous levels of immigration doesn't cut much mustard with the indigenous working classes of Leeds. it may well have been a shit hole back in the day but it was our shit hole & it had more soul & identity. now it's just Bland & soulless Ironically Cockneys & New Yorkers say the same thing about their cities too.
@@trippy2johno280 l'm betting l know Leeds a sight better than you and have known it for longer. What l lack your sneering sense of superiority, out and out racism and Donald Trump like approach to things you're incapable appreciating.
@@billythedog-309 Fuck yourself I've live here for 50 years, I know exactly what I'm talking about so don't patronize me you condescending, sanctimonious little twerp! as for your ridiculous out & out racism blurp, would you care to elaborate on that one?! lol it's people like you who are the problem these days, disrespecting other peoples opinions & pulling the race card because you have no valid argument. What exactly is your point?!
