Pictures of 1970s Briggate?

Post by **cnosni** » Tue 05 Feb, 2008 9:16 pm

kierentc wrote: well at least you can show your non believing friends this thread and say 'look! it did exist! some random from the internet remembers it too!' loli can't believe i can remember what a shop from 25 years ago or so sold. i have a memory for utter, utter trivia. i wouldn't have even shopped there. it must have been another place my sister dragged me to, while on the hunt for skin tight indigo wranglers or something (the ones that showed up white marks when they creased)she used to go there and another jeans place, possibly in one of the arcades or shopping centres? i can't remember but i think that one had a naff name tooi remember virgin being there too (where house of fraser is now?). the carrier bags were orange but then they changed them so it was a different colour every week or so. my sister used to collect them rotfl Sorry boys and girls but House of Fraser now inhabits the original woolworths,which was ENORMOUS,spread over 3 floors.It was woolworths as long as i can remember.when Virgin came onto Briggate it was on the site of the present Borders book shop.I dont remember it before that but i have seen on secret leeds that it was on King Edward Street.s for Chelsea girl i thought it was in the unit currently occupied by River Island on the corner of Lands Lane and King Edward Street.(not that i shopped there)

kierentc · Post by **kierentc** » Tue 05 Feb, 2008 11:32 pm

cnosni wrote: Sorry boys and girls but House of Fraser now inhabits the original woolworths,which was ENORMOUS,spread over 3 floors.It was woolworths as long as i can remember.when Virgin came onto Briggate it was on the site of the present Borders book shop.I dont remember it before that but i have seen on secret leeds that it was on King Edward Street.s for Chelsea girl i thought it was in the unit currently occupied by River Island on the corner of Lands Lane and King Edward Street.(not that i shopped there) i'm sure after woolworths it was virgin for a while...and then when the schofields was dozered they moved in there and virgin moved up the street...mr tc concurs with me loland i'm sure you're right about CG being on lands lane but i think that was after it was on albion street. i think i saw a picture of it on leodis...where the waterstones is?http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... 3089236tah dah! didn't think i'd find it that quickly, lol

kierentc · Post by **kierentc** » Tue 05 Feb, 2008 11:44 pm

...or, was virgin where bella pasta is now? maybe thats where it was. it was definately that end of briggate at some point. i'd put money on it...

oldleedsman · Post by **oldleedsman** » Wed 06 Feb, 2008 12:48 am

kierentc wrote: ...or, was virgin where bella pasta is now? maybe thats where it was. it was definately that end of briggate at some point. i'd put money on it... Virgin was most definitely on Queen Victoria Street (before it disappeared under the glass roof). It was on the right-hand-side as you looked towards Briggate. I would guess it was opened early 73.

kierentc · Post by **kierentc** » Wed 06 Feb, 2008 11:33 am

oldleedsman wrote: Virgin was most definitely on Queen Victoria Street (before it disappeared under the glass roof). It was on the right-hand-side as you looked towards Briggate. I would guess it was opened early 73. i was only two in 1973 lol. so i must be thinking of where it was in the late 70s/early 80s...someone else other than my husband must remember it being down there too <wails>

mutikonka · Post by **mutikonka** » Wed 06 Feb, 2008 1:11 pm

There was definitely a Virgin records where Bella Pasta is (or somewhere thereabouts next to Millets camping shop) in 1978. I used to go over there and fondle the coloured vinyl LPs and picture discs that I could not afford. My usual circuit round town would be between Virgin, HMV, Jumbo Records (Merrion Centre) and possibly Len Lyons (his son was at our school and became a monk ...??!!) Records down by City Station. And there was another one downstairs on Kirkgate where Bill Nelson of Be Bop Deluxe autographd my copy of Modern Music.Is this the time to start a Lost Record Shops of Leeds thread? (With music downloading going the way it is I reckon that will be a busy one in years to come)

Croggy · Post by **Croggy** » Wed 06 Feb, 2008 1:50 pm

Re record shops ... see here http://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messag ... ighLight=1

Post by **chameleon** » Wed 06 Feb, 2008 6:06 pm

oldleedsman wrote: kierentc wrote: ...or, was virgin where bella pasta is now? maybe thats where it was. it was definately that end of briggate at some point. i'd put money on it... Virgin was most definitely on Queen Victoria Street (before it disappeared under the glass roof). It was on the right-hand-side as you looked towards Briggate. I would guess it was opened early 73. Saw it in a piccy on Leodis, two doors up from Addymans.

Shazza · Post by **Shazza** » Tue 03 Jun, 2008 3:33 pm

I worked at Woolworths in the 1980s and was there when it closed down. It was never Virgin but I remember it being closed down whilst they took at the big old staircase right up the middle and changed it to House of Fraser.

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Tue 03 Jun, 2008 5:14 pm

mutikonka wrote: Does anyone have any pictures of Briggate from the 1970s - or can you point me in the direction of where I might find some? I am trying to find some of the junction with Boar Lane (to prove that there was a shop called Huggy Bears) and also of near the junction with the Headrow - where the Chelsea Girl shop was.Thanks. Got this of lower briggate and more early 80's I think.