The Building of the Leeds Infrastructure

jim · Post by **jim** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 11:40 am

Great story Blakey. Pity the YEP no longer has the "It Happened to me" column - there might have been a small profit to be made to offset the loss of wellies and trousers!

Post by **chameleon** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 11:50 am

Blakey mate, you sure this wasn't a scenario from a clandestine appearance in On the Busses - would do their script writers proud that would!But seriously it must have been horrific. We went at that time too to show the (then) quite young children something they may never see again and to see what people had given up for the benefit of others, and it was quite an adventure for them in this secret villageThat visit was recorded too but then we only had compact VCR available then - I have the tape somewhere - so digitisation would be needed to post anything.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 1:14 pm

Oh how frightening! Thanks for telling us about it.

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 2:12 pm

Wow what a story Blakey, do you still have the video can you upload it to youtube or anywhere else? I'd love to see it.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 5:18 pm

Blakey"..One wellington remains at the bottom of the reservoir, trapped in the slime, to this day.."Leeds water, with just a hint of

Post by **chameleon** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 5:48 pm

.....burning, very strong cheese

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 6:13 pm

Jogon wrote: Blakey"..One wellington remains at the bottom of the reservoir, trapped in the slime, to this day.."Leeds water, with just a hint of My socks were clean Sir - no health hazard to the good citizens of Leeds

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 6:18 pm

Chrism wrote: Wow what a story Blakey, do you still have the video can you upload it to youtube or anywhere else? I'd love to see it. I do still have the video Chrism, on small VHS cassette, but have no idea how to publish it on here or on youtube - any hints to a simpleton would be appreciated though. If I may say so as shouldn't, its quite an interesting "never to be repeated" little film (about twenty minutes long), although of course there are no views of the muddy drama as I had other things on my mind for that minute or two

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 6:34 pm

blakeyYou've just got to make this happen. Your public need you to.I'm not techy and wouldn't know what to do but this could be an interesting project for some gifted 'post-blackberry' generation.As they said way back on that day"CAN SOMEONE PLEEEEEAASE HELP THIS MAN"

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 7:33 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Chrism wrote: Wow what a story Blakey, do you still have the video can you upload it to youtube or anywhere else? I'd love to see it. I do still have the video Chrism, on small VHS cassette, but have no idea how to publish it on here or on youtube - any hints to a simpleton would be appreciated though. If I may say so as shouldn't, its quite an interesting "never to be repeated" little film (about twenty minutes long), although of course there are no views of the muddy drama as I had other things on my mind for that minute or two There are shops about that will transfer the film to DVD, for a price, or if you have a DVD recorder you could get a lead to plug it into and record it onto a disc. Then it is simple to find a programme to rip it from the DVD. Youtube only accepts vids of 15 minutes but there are other sites that you can put on up to 2 hours. Then pop the link onto here and voila. Sounds simple like that I know but once you get the hang of it it is Hope you manage it as I'd love to see it.