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

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 10:56 pm

thanks for the replies guys. so what was Cricket Wickety where LA Bowl was? the LA Bowl sign is still there in the trees incidentallly.so can someone tell me when the crystal palace and building next to it were demolished to make way for Beweleys Hotel?also what was where halfords and adjacent car park and city walk velocity flats is now?

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 11:00 pm

You know you're getting old when new bits have been built on what you thought of as new bits.

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 11:06 pm

pablo leeds wrote: thanks for the replies guys. so what was Cricket Wickety where LA Bowl was? the LA Bowl sign is still there in the trees incidentallly.so can someone tell me when the crystal palace and building next to it were demolished to make way for Beweleys Hotel?also what was where halfords and adjacent car park and city walk velocity flats is now? They weren't demolished for Bewleys they must have been further down Sweet Street. There was an LCC buidling and compound on the site that is now occupied by Bewleys and that complex I would imagine date as back to the early 70s at the latest. It certainly housed the leisure services admin and LCC highways or equivalent in the 80's and early to mid 90's

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 11:19 pm

hmm maybe because the gasworks structure looks closer than it would if the crystal palace was where Beweleys is. hmm

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 11:33 pm

pablo leeds wrote: hmm maybe because the gasworks structure looks closer than it would if the crystal palace was where Beweleys is. hmm This http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 2_63219851 will be after the compound and building were demolished (from memory the compound was walled (6ft+) for as long as I can remember (certainly as far as 1980). The building may just have been the brick building in your original photo as its similar although not at the angle I remember.

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Thu 05 Jan, 2012 11:45 pm

which building sorry?

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Fri 06 Jan, 2012 10:48 am

pablo leeds wrote: which building sorry? The four storey brick building immediately behind the pub in that photo. The Compound Wall ireffered to can just bee seen on this along with the sale sign http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Fri 06 Jan, 2012 1:03 pm

wow that's one i havn't seen. the building ahead is now Yorkshire Forward (RIP) and the offices of city walk (where i work) are yet to be built.the shape of the road seems to have changed though a bit

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Fri 06 Jan, 2012 1:40 pm

pablo leeds wrote: wow that's one i havn't seen. the building ahead is now Yorkshire Forward (RIP) and the offices of city walk (where i work) are yet to be built.the shape of the road seems to have changed though a bit I would say the two lanes are pretty much the same layout now ans then what has changed is that there is a double width bus lane that drops to one lane and then emerges into the main traffic on Victoria Road just beyond where the ForSale/sold sign is in the photo. The combination of bus lanes and surrounding footpaths would certainly have a footprint inside the wall. The shrubery also visible was from memory wuite wide nearer the apex of the bend.

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Fri 06 Jan, 2012 2:07 pm

road seems to bend to left towards Manor Road on your pic, whereas google map of same position it seems to bend right ?lots more trees now on right hand side now too