Walking In Leeds In the Sixties & Seventies.
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raveydavey
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BLAKEY
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Brandy wrote: Come on BLAKEY im sure you have some littleanecdote to add for usps/terrym one word for you.......................MORE! Thank you Brandy - once Terry puts his walking shoes in for repair I'll try to put something similar together as I have many similar very happy memories of "Our Leeds" - just lately I don't seem to recognise the place any more you know.
There's nothing like keeping the past alive - it makes us relieved to reflect that any bad times have gone, and happy to relive all the joyful and fascinating experiences of our own and other folks' earlier days.
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BLAKEY
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Terrym wrote: This was a palace, no more baths in the kitchen on a Friday night with no privacy whatsoever, no more going outside and down the steps to the toilet, and it had not one but two gardens.So 52 Rycroft Avenue Bramley was to be our new home.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------The walks in the sixties will continue on once we get moved in as there are so many places to explore around here.....................................................................................................What a smashing itinerary Terry, and so well told that my "plates of meat" are aching with the distance I recgnise every single feature that you've mentioned, - that wonderful red neon sign "Fairbairn Lawson Coombe Barber" and you could get anything it seemd at Oxleys's at Whingate Junction. Being an old gimmer I can also clearly remember perhaps another ten years or so before
There's nothing like keeping the past alive - it makes us relieved to reflect that any bad times have gone, and happy to relive all the joyful and fascinating experiences of our own and other folks' earlier days.
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Uno Hoo
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I was a lorry driver who had to deliver to Gallons fairly often. I don't miss the narrow gate and long reversal up to the delivery door. I think I've mentioned this before.
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BLAKEY
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These visits to the happy past get better with every episode Terry and once again I happily recall everything you say. My first bike (no lights or 3 speed) was a "Wigfalls Royal." A trip on any part of the 32 route was not for the faint hearted - especially if a certain Torre Road driver by the name of F**** ********n was more or less in control - the only time I've ever heard conductors ordering passengers to fasten their seatbelts before the suicide plunge down Potternewton Lane
There's nothing like keeping the past alive - it makes us relieved to reflect that any bad times have gone, and happy to relive all the joyful and fascinating experiences of our own and other folks' earlier days.