I lived in Baywater Street from 1936-1948. It was a good area then. A bit grim through the war years with blackouts and shortages. I still remember most of it. Happy memories. Thank yoy for posting.
It never seemed as dank and dreary as your photos make it appear , not to a boy walking to st..augustines in the 50s ..everything was interesting ..Mr lindley the window cleaner gave us wrigley chewing gum en route..and from the loading bays at crown wallpapers and stylos came commentary on subba row (spelling wrong I guess) and Tom graveny piling up the runs for England...a very different world.
Most of those photos relate to my childhood days I lived on Harehills terrace between 1955 and 1966 it was a good community and I had a good childhood when living there.
My mum was a cleaner at rank optics in the green and white building in the 70s her name was Jean Rourke and worked with mavis lockwood I would go meet her from work around 7pm I think walking up chatsworth road at the crown wallpapers building was on the righthand side
Picked a few scrap cars up around that area in the 70s 80s 90s with my late father especially from David Sandou's double garage in the back of the gaiety car park
Sue Cutts You wouldn't like it there now, in fact you'd struggle to wonder why we ever bothered participating in world war 2 when you see the amount of scruffy degenerate third world scum & low lives that have infested the area....Cess pit springs to mind & that includes most of inner city Leeds today.... the Luftwaffe missed most of inner city Leeds.....shame they can't make up for it today ha ha
One tends to think that there was nothing previous to what surrounded you in childhood..buildings etc..that the clock cinema was always there etc etc. Also that although photos give an impression of lowering skies and dirty buildings and mean streets, one didn't seem to notice or be affected ...I didn't see things in black and white.one really only was made aware on leaving the cinema and changing perspective from jeff chandler,Alan ladd et al..to rainy pavements and northern skies...I was born and raised in seaforth road from 1946 and can testify that it was a wonderful time and place to live
Harehills was fine until the politically induced fairy tale called "multiculturalism" was inflicted upon us all, the misguided concept that we can all live a happy treacle coated existence with half the third world on our doorstep was about as likely as Santa clause coming down one's chimney for real.
***** why do you think they all come in the first place the anti workers and union laws she work so hard to ruined cause decernt jobs and wages for working class to go meaning gens of white where Leif on the dole scrapyards .leading the for iminegents to take low played long hour roles which to the rich owners of companys is very nice
yup, basically it's just "colonialism" in reverse ...in stead of us going over there to exploit them we just bring them here in stead, nothings really changed has it?!
@@elephantsmemory3142 Was this the New Town area at the end of Dolly lane? I’m too young to remember it but all that area was my dads play area as a kid, on the rec etc. I was born in the 60s and jimmys was my play ground. 😊
@@BettySwollocks13 Yes we called it Newtown then although the Newtown picture house was near the NEW Roscoe pub in Leeds 7 Iwas never in that pub but often drank in the Roscoe that was at the bottom end of Chapletown road
i walked home through chapletown, harehills 2.00 o'clock in the morning many times in the 80s and 90s when i was skint and couldn't afford a taxi i never got stabbed or attacked . however my mum got stabbed in halton in 1970 walking me to school of a random nutcase in broad daylight . wrong place wrong time
