Well done in mixing the Leeds Bridge footage in, for those who don't know that footage from the bridge is the worlds first "moving image" by the inventor of the movie camera. If the guy hadn't been assassinated (look it up) Leeds could very well have been the centre of the Movie industry.
Interesting. Just did a bit of research. It seems Thomas Edison might have had a hand in this. This was around the time Edison and Nikolai Tesla were competing with different styles of electricity transmission, Edison favouring the DC method but with Tesla's more efficient AC method winning. Stakes were high back then (as I suppose they are still).
The one thing you notice straight away is how much clutter there is now, cones, signs, traffic calming measures, cycle lanes. That aside it does look far better and grander now our 3rd largest stand alone city, leeds!
Work very well done mate!! Love learning history of my hometown, Leeds. What better way to get clear footage during lockdown. Still miss the Odeon and ABC cinema 😞 childhood memories
Glad the cleaned up that old post office in city square, it’s easy to forget how polluted it used to be. Am sad to be reminded the cinema is now that sports shop
Brilliant, thanks for sharing. Also what a change in image quality (fim & digital) between then & now. I left Leeds in 1968 for a life on paradise island, 'Tasmania' Australia's island State. I would not recognise most of Leeds now, doubt I could even live there after more than 50 years of pristine clean air, blue skies, no pollution, and vast beaches close to home, a 5-acre rural property just 15 minutes drive from Tasmania's capital city, Hobart. However, it was Leeds University that gave me the start.
I remember Leeds from the late 60s. I remember Briggate being wider and having busses up and down both sides with a central railing and subways underneath to connect both sides with public toilets available, though disgusting in the subways. I think there were trams there too but that might be before my time. Leeds market was much bigger before the fire too, Franks barbers down to one side and the offices above.
@@Samirahmed.48 I mean the entire length, most of which is pedestrianised now. It had double decker buses up and down with waist high railings in the middle, dirty from the buses and other traffic and at least one subway underneath with public toilets in the subways.
1:30 The triangular building was, late 50s early 60s, "Contact for Cash" - a pawnbroker. The windows were filled with electric guitars, the result of reality over wishful thinking. There was also a traditional pawnbroker in Hunslet - the owner wasn't afraid to display his balls. Does anybody else remember the Tetley's horse-drawn drays distributing beer around the city centre?
I also remember Contact with the guitars...loads of them! Many years ago I had to go into Tetley’s stables for some work reason and it was a really interesting other world.
Yes there was stable open days through the summer, we use to swap satdi between seacroft centre or down to town. If in town time allowing go stand by stable gates n watch, usually someone would come give you a show you around and feel like a midget up by shire lol
@@matthew1337 i hate how some places knock down some beautiful buildings. Born in 88 but im in awe of how clean britain looked even in the 70s. Minus the high rises.
Nothing much has changed in what you have shown. A bit more colurful and focussed but much the same. Thanks very much for your eforts, much appreciated. _ Jn
Hi can anyone remember where Ebenezer street was? I’m guessing it was somewhere near Eastgate or did Eastgate actually replace it? I’ve found some old records at work with the name Ebenezer Street but there is only one in Farsley now. Thanks
When it is shown on the left it was the offices of Leeds City buses at one time it had also been the offices of the Leeds Electric Company.. Just down the side on Concordia Street was where the football specials used to be and opposite where North Taproom is was the ole Queens Hall which was a bus garage.
And practically all of the modern shots...: ROADWORKS...!!! Can't LCC leave stuff alone for 5 min's without narrowing something, or pedestrianizing, or changing the traffic flow, or removing Bus Stops, or re-naming areas for no logical reason...?
No it wasn't Leeds has always had a diverse immigrant population. The Irish came over in the 19th century to build the railways. Jews arrived from Russia in the late 19th century including the founders of M&S. Then their are to founders of the Leeds tailoring industry who lived in the Mabgate are of the city. We had a large German population, Poles, Ukrainians, Greeks. The city has always been diversified ever since Tudor times.
@@stephenhodgson3506Too much immigration , far too much, the sheer numbers have descended the country into utter chaos. And the inner city Leeds demographics have changed beyond all recognition. i mean look at Harehills?! its almost dystopian!!
@@trippy1198 now I'm going to scare you because I'm going to reply to you with some facts and I know that many immigrant haters are as scared of facts as they are of immigration. When the Irish first started coming to Leeds to build the canals and railways there were some like you who complained and said the city couldn't cope, but we did. The same thing happened when the Jews arrived. Then the West Indians in the 1950's and 1960's but the city always absorbed them for the betterment of the city's culture and progressed. The fastest growing part of the city is the city centre and most of those that are moving there are well educated people who chose to attend the city's universities and decided to stay and they are white. Now the bit that will really terrify you. The current UK birth rate is 1.56 births per woman. To maintain a population that can sustain the UK at its current level without any economic improvement whatsoever the UK needs a birth rate of 2.1 births per woman. If we were to stop all immigration as you would like that means that the UK economy will begin to shrink as there will not be insufficient people to do the necessary work and pay the taxes. As the UK has an impending aging population crisis due to the boomers retiring, in the very near future we will also be seeing an increase in dementia cases with nobody to pay or care for those people. Additional burdens will be placed on the NHS as old people need more healthcare than young people. To make the problem worse is the fact that many of the senior (age wise) doctors and nurses are all getting closer to retirement and insufficient people are been trained to replace them. Now unless you and people like you can somehow persuade the women of the UK to have more children I would love to know just how you would provide the necessary people to keep the UK economy going. You see this is an impending crisis in all Western economies and those immigrants that you hate are going to be in demand throughout those economies. But the right wing media that have been lying to you for decades so that you will focus on immigration while their friends in power can fleece the economy will keep you distracted for as long as they can. By the time you realise just how much you have been conned it may well be too late.
@@stephenhodgson3506 Talk about stating the obvious?! you can dress it up as much as you like but mass immigration has destroyed Britain . the British elite and establishment have always been corrupt - they were fucking the indigenous British over for centuries , it's nothing new sherlock lol and if you think that filling the country with third world people can be deemed as progress then i suggest you get yourself to some of the backward immigrant areas we have up north in abundance - rotherham anyone? odlham? rochdale? grooming cases? hmmmm? immigration in the uk was demographically insignificant up until around 1948 when the treaty was signed & the lunacy was allowed to start.
