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Trojan
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Bet it was the Tetley's that swung it!
Lovely first day with Kerrygold but goes to 'sawdust' in no time!
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Yes it doesn't keep. I've been to Ireland once, and you get it with the Irish breakfast, which is pretty much like the English breakfast except you get white pudding (sausage really) and fresh soda bread. As for Mayo - I've been to Westport, and had quite a night in the famous Molloy's Pub drinking Guiness followed by Black Bush - some night!!
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spudoil
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| I remember reading somewhere that the majority of Irish people in Leeds came from Mayo. However, the Irish people I know came form Keady in the North. There's an Irish bar just off Rounday Road at the start of Harehills Ave (?) Delaney's? There are at least two Gaelic Football Teams in Leeds, Young Ireland and Hugh O'Neills. Morley is full of people of Irish descent - they came to build the tunnel and never went home. |
Most off the Irish lived on the Bank, by the Marsh lane, Richmond hill area of Leeds. Divided into two sections, Catholic and Protestant. The fighting was so violent between them they biuilt the Marsh lane police station. Mount StMary's church was the largest Catholic church in Europe with non-Cathedral status. They originally came to build the leeds railway line. I believe thats where the term Loiner comes from as asking an Irishman what he was he stated 'Oim a Leeds Loiner (Liner). My information comes from a book by the Thorsby local history group called Ham Shank (Bank).
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spudoil
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Things you don't see...
Milkmen with the hand pulled electric carts. I was brought up in the Gipton area of leeds the Fearnvilles and our milkman was called Frank. He filled up his cart at the old Foxwood Farm at the bottom of the estate (no longer there)
Also the Ben Saws pop bottle delivery wagon ????
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arry awk
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Big Bill Campbell's Wild West Club!
If I remember,He appeared in the Knockout Comic
and you had to join the club by posting a coupon
to the KO and Bill Himself sent you a carboard badge
with a number on it which, if in a batch printed weekly,
you got a prize and your name in print in the next edition.
Can't remember what the prizes were! Probably a 'genuine'
Sheriff's star or a cardboard cut out Colt 45! Yee-Haah!
If any of your pals were club members,you had to greet
them with "Howdy Pard!" and they had to reply,"Howdy Pardner!"
We loved it! (Aged about 9 to 12). The Club, with Big Bill, also
appeared 'Live' in the 'BBCWWClub',which I think was on Radio
Luxembourg?not the actual BBC. Not sure. He always opened with ,
'Howdy,Pardner's, Pull up a log and sit by the old campfire while
Big bill tells you a true story!'( I think he was a Failed ex
Scoutmaster!,couldn't get on with the shorts and woggle!)
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weenie
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Chrism wrote:
sluginc wrote:
Throwing a ball at 3 dolly pegs placed up against a wall ( can't remember the name of the game ).
It was surprisingly called ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
...wait for it... ... ... ... ...
...Pegs!
i was on about this the other day to my neighbour we used to call it
Peg it and Leg it!
good game too
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sundowner
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Has any one mentioned the knocker up man .He used to come round our streets in hunslet with a long pole and knock on the bedroom windows . I mean only on the windows of any onewho had to be at work early Did not want you to think that he knocked on all the windows.He He
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arry awk
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How about JELLIED VEAL!?
(Like Brawn, in consistency but a much nicer taste!)
Lovely in sarnies, or on a plate with ham and a nice salad.
Where did it go,or was is stopped for some 'animal rights' cause
like foi gras? (No.I don't agree with the production methods
of that commodity!) You can still buy veal anyway so why
did they stop making it? Unfair to jelly,perhaps ???
Perhaps some 'SL, Poster with Butchery connections can give
the answer?
Sundowner, You mean you had More than one window?
We used to have a 'knocker up' when we lived
in Bushire St (off Armley Road) in the '30's.
6d(old money)per week, he charged.
Dad had to be up at 5.30am working for the GPO.and,
being only 6yrs old at the time, I was frightened to death
when 'Knocker' rattled the bedroom window with a long pole
and a spring on the end! (Simonm will have a comment on this
no doubt,him having Bushire St connections!)
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Si
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Arry - Bushire Street was just down the road from where I work.
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arry awk
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Nowt there now of those streets. Think there's a
Sex shop where our old cludgie was! (Nowt changes!)
I worked for Greenbat's from '75 to '81, Till the Hunslet
Engine Co 'developers' took over!
Have had a mid day pint or three in the Albion at the top of the street, when the Albion was a Pub and not a Lager bar!
Went down Armley Rd yesterday but could hardly pinpoint anything!
Memories!
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rod bottom
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things you dont see anymore[apologies if they are already on]
the alpine pop wagon,a trillion people all squeezed into roundhay open air pool,my daft dog shane,who went in scrounging in every shop on dib lane,oh the shame!.
do kids still do duffs?
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weenie
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apologies if mentioned before....
old fashioned dripping and bread?
i know you can buy it now in supermarkets but it is not the same.....
as the original ones
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sundowner
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Hi Arry Awk yes we had windows noglass just windows . Come to think about it we had no carpets as well.Some of the houses you had to wipe your feet on the way outbeggers used to come to our house to give us money
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sundowner
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Right here goes Zebo black lead.Zink baths. Mangles. Peggy tubs Possers.Whip and tops. Bundles of chips to light the fire. Loose coke from the gas works. Amonea for washing cloths. Middens.Lino.Set pots Jerrys. Rag and bone men. Winter green ointment .Cab drivers linctus. Hearth tins. Loose beer from the out sales. Rubbing boards.Long sticks of barley sugar .Motorbikes with side cars.Bogies thats the ones with four wheels.School millk in bottles. School malt collar studs. Half hundred weight foot balls when wet. .Red brest stickle backs. Home made wallpaper past. The school board man.Bow legs. Salt biscuits from the baths.Spitoons.Phew must sit down and take off my spats.
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Si
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Nowt there now of those streets. Think there's a
Sex shop where our old cludgie was! (Nowt changes!)
I worked for Greenbat's from '75 to '81, Till the Hunslet
Engine Co 'developers' took over!
Have had a mid day pint or three in the Albion at the top of the street, when the Albion was a Pub and not a Lager bar!
Went down Armley Rd yesterday but could hardly pinpoint anything!
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I've probably seen you in The Albion, then, Arry! Used to be a lovely pint of Tetley's in there in those days. Did a nice ham and mustard breadcake an'all.
The only bit left of Greenbats is the wall between our top yard and Comet/John Peter's (as was,) and the building that ran up to Brancepeth Place. It still has the overhead crane in it. Our company has been next door since 1948. The top yard (fronting Armley Road) was back-to-backs (Binks Street) since demolished, before being filled with steel drums. It was then an overspill car park for the Volvo garage on Wellington Bridge, before being concreted and filled with caged containers - ring any bells?
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sundowner
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Hello Si i used to work at wilson and mathersons in that area. They used to make gas cookers A bit before your time i should think.Mid sixties just think we could have walked the same ground.
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Si
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We probably have, Sundowner. My grandad was a master cooper working from Brancepeth Place in the 1950s. I have vague memories of the area in the 60s.
That's something you don't see these days - coopers.
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sundowner
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Your right there are only mini coopers re wilson and mathersons were next door to greenwoods.When you look around all the big works have gone so now we depend on imports has i said years ago when we depend on imports they will get us by the you know whats and start to squeeze i say no more.
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arry awk
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EEEH Sundowner lad, tha's bringing it all back
in't tha? I must mention that a lot of these
memories were covered at various times,since this site opened,
but it's tedious 'tracking back' pages and pages, so best re state some of em again! Carry on remorseless(or summat!).
My very first job on leaving school in 1944(!) aged 14, was at
Marston Excelsior Radiators (ICI), Armley Rd,
as an apprentice maintenance
'trician and 'Gophor'! They had departments also, over Armley Rd, in
a converted Joiners' and Funeral directors ,which was a temporary
joinery shop for 'Maintenance', and a 'Tinning' Shop in Brancepeth
Place, in those derelict back to backs you mention! Health and
Safety would have shut that one down PDQ as the roof leaked
and you could fall thru the rotten floorboards if not careful!
They also had outstations on Gelderd Rd(Mebbe Whitehall?)
In the 'Schweppes' buildings, mostly heavy engineering and
electrics. A lot was 'hush hush',so didn't know what they turned out! I just had to watch and learn while my chargehand did
repairs on the machines.
Back to Greenbats! I understand during the war,apart from
ammunition etc, they used to test torpedoes for buoyancy and
Gyroscope operations, In the Navvy! good job the tinfish weren't armed,or there'd ha'been a few lockgates missing!
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sundowner
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Hi arry awk had a few jobs in my time had to leave school at fifteen to bring in the cash never served an apprenticeship. but was an hydro carbon reforming plant fitter when i was in my mid twentys i have always said you can still get on in life if you can use your grey matter.Was a sales rep for about ten years plus a school caretaker for nine.Worked for fifty years so done my bit Worked at one time for harding and rhodes on globe road semi skilled fitter from there to meadow lane gas works working for a london firm my wages went up one hundred per cent they paid london rates.Most of my work was on valves i had my own fab shop.relief valves were most important if one failed it could be big trouble we closed one plant down at a time to work on it that was in the summer months winter all systems go I had to find a job to see me through winter then back with them the next spring
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| . Winter green ointment . |
We used to rub in wintergreen when we played Rugby on cold days. If you went to the pro games on a winters day, when the players came out the smell was overpowering!
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the kid catcher we called him
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sundowner
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Good to see someone else remembers i thought i was the only one .Just had a thought home made wallpaper paste they used to say thats what the bugs lived on?
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EEEH Sundowner lad, tha's bringing it all back
in't tha? I must mention that a lot of these
memories were covered at various times,since this site opened,
but it's tedious 'tracking back' pages and pages, so best re state some of em again! Carry on remorseless(or summat!).
My very first job on leaving school in 1944(!) aged 14, was at
Marston Excelsior Radiators (ICI), Armley Rd,
as an apprentice maintenance
'trician and 'Gophor'! They had departments also, over Armley Rd, in
a converted Joiners' and Funeral directors ,which was a temporary
joinery shop for 'Maintenance', and a 'Tinning' Shop in Brancepeth
Place, in those derelict back to backs you mention! Health and
Safety would have shut that one down PDQ as the roof leaked
and you could fall thru the rotten floorboards if not careful!
They also had outstations on Gelderd Rd(Mebbe Whitehall?)
In the 'Schweppes' buildings, mostly heavy engineering and
electrics. A lot was 'hush hush',so didn't know what they turned out! I just had to watch and learn while my chargehand did
repairs on the machines.
Back to Greenbats! I understand during the war,apart from
ammunition etc, they used to test torpedoes for buoyancy and
Gyroscope operations, In the Navvy! good job the tinfish weren't armed,or there'd ha'been a few lockgates missing!
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Hi Arry,
I'd be very interested to know exactly where Marston's tinning shop was on Brancepeth Place. Can you remember? There were back-to-backs down the left hand side with an old livery stables (?) at the end (still there,) blind-backs down the right, and a large yard at the bottom which backs onto the canal. I think there was also a small yard halfway down the right side where someone kept a horse and cart.
Cheers,
Si.
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All I can remember (This was 1944/5!!)
was, that the Tinner's was about halfway down the street
left hand side and up on the first floor!
Ground floor was where they kept the
hydrochloric acid and sticks of tin(lead?)
They used to lower a rope with a hook down thru a 4ft square hole in the upper floor and haul a carboy of acid ,or cwt of tinning solder
up to the tin shop! I never completed an apprenticeship there
afterall! The war ended in '45 and they made loads redundant!
I wasn't indentured so couldn't transfer my apprenticeship. Good
start to my working life,what? But here I am on Secret Leeds
so not a bad outcome!!!???
The 'back to backs' were 'one up and one down', similar to
Bushire St ,and also Devonshire St, at the bottom of Armley Rd,
where I started life into the cruel January world!Our house was opposite the White Horse Pub and I recall thinking,when I was outside in my pram,that the stuff in my feeding bottle,didn't
smell at all like theTetleys bitter fumes coming from the white Hoss!
I was 'pupped' at St Mary's hosp up the road! see thread on
'High Royds and St Mary's', earlier in the year.).
You are right about the bedbugs thriving on the flour and water
wallpaper paste!No Polycell in those days!
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He arry awk thas got sumat i common wi me a wer born in Jan .A thought when a read thi stuff tha wer ont bright side. HeHE
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