SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

just for a little light hearted relief,how about,rag and bone men,white dog poo and the two headed dog!

Starlings swarming over Leeds city Centre looking for a roosting place. This was in the early 80's before everywhere was covered in netting!!!

boilsricketsthose lethal pale blue three wheeler 'invalid carriages', which discriminated against people with a disabilitypeople smoking in pubs(hurrah!) and other public places

that purple stuff that the nit nurse put on everything from coldsores to shoe blisters.

national health specs with jam jar bottom lenses

patches over 'LAZY EYES'

Gran's goose-grease on your chest for winter colds, Yak! Good way to loose friends quickly!The Water man checking your water (No wiggy not YOUR water works - listening for underground leaks at all the stoptaps outside your house!).

Quality road tar that melts in the hot weather and you can pickoff with your fingers,spending hours trying to get it off.

WHEN THE WATER BOARD USED TO OPEN STOP VALVES IN THE STREET,THEN TELL YOU TO GO AWAY WHEN YOU DANCED IN IT....ice on the inside of windows,chimney fires and my grandads army trench coat on the bed in the winter.

rattles, rosettes, home maade scarves at rugby/soccer gamesThe Seacroft Hospital column in the Evening post on a staurdaybed number so and so very poorly ands so onyour shirt collar being black on the inside where it touched your neck at the end of the day