Does anyone remember when Sweet Street looked like this? (Crytal Palace pub)

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 5:17 pm

what a mess it was then. i work round here near Beweleys Hotel. *shocked* http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 420_168866

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 5:30 pm

YepThe scary thing to me is how 1970's footage on TV looks out of another age.I also remember a drunken dosser throwing a bottle at us on the wasteland (that is now ASDA HQ).Mate responded with webley junior (packing heat I believe they call it now). Happy carefree days 'south of tha river'.Ooh, you couldn't make it up!

Tyke · Post by **Tyke** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 6:48 pm

That gas holder in the back ground was huge I used to work in the yard occasionally and rummage around the things that had been dumped there.

Loiner in Cyprus · Post by **Loiner in Cyprus** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 6:54 pm

If I remember correctly I'm sure the government training centre I did a Radio and TV maintenance course in 1973/74 was on Sweet Street.

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 7:08 pm

Loiner in Cyprus wrote: If I remember correctly I'm sure the government training centre I did a Radio and TV maintenance course in 1973/74 was on Sweet Street. You did remember well. It was on the corner of Sweet Street and Marshall Street, went there after leaving the Forces in the early 70s, its still there but used for training now, I believe its for young offenders.

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 7:17 pm

Remember it well, we played 5s and 3s in the Crystal Palace on Fridays. See my comments on the Leodis site

Tyke · Post by **Tyke** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 8:15 pm

My favourite pub down Sweet St was the Commercial we used to go in on a Friday dinner and it was allways full plus they had a fantastic Boogie Woogie piano player.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 8:35 pm

When I first stated work (late 80's) I used to have to occasionally accompany someone paying cheques etc in at the branch of the TSB that is just out of shot (that's long gone too!). I can remember it a few years later when Cricket Wicket arrived (later to become the LA Bowl - now also long gone).I always wondered at the time how the handful of businesses down there survived.Apparently Jan Fletcher's property company has big plans for the area, but that is presumably waiting for the economy to pick up.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 9:16 pm

Last I heard she owns Bryans Fish and Chips, a finger in many (err) pies if you will.

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 9:21 pm

geoffb wrote: Remember it well, we played 5s and 3s in the Crystal Palace on Fridays. See my comments on the Leodis site Tyke wrote: My favourite pub down Sweet St was the Commercial we used to go in on a Friday dinner and it was allways full plus they had a fantastic Boogie Woogie piano player. These were part of a regular pub crawl around Holbeck we used to do in the early 1980s: Crystal Palace, Commercial, Kings Arms, Britannia, Lord Nelson (usually in that order!).