The Changing Face of Leeds

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 05 Sep, 2012 8:19 pm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30379947@N ... tream/This one is good, think it's Gelderd Road and the bridge that leads to the old 1882 Holbeck Viaduct. If you look closely on the way out of Leeds you can still see the imprint of the sign.

Phallica2000 · Post by **Phallica2000** » Sun 09 Sep, 2012 6:50 pm

jim wrote: Lots of memories for me there Phillica. In particular, as an eight to nine year old I used to cross over the Whitehall Road bridge by Dunlop and Rankins - inside the girders. On viewing the access holes we had used when I was older I shuddered. I have no idea how we managed to enter them, even when we were much smaller. What would have happened if we were badly injured and how anyone could have got us out I cannot imagine.Incidentally, the photo titled Branch Road Wortley (supposedly) is of the upper end of the Branch Road Lower Wortley which links Whitehall Road with Lower Wortley Road crossing over the Ring Road on the way. At one time in the 1950s I delivered newspapers for the newsagents just visible at the top of the little group of shops on the right. The opposite end at Whitehall Road was adjacent to the Dunlop and Rankin bridge I refer to above. Haha, excellent. I moved from Armley when I was 9 to Wortley and lived on the Kirkdales until I was 22 so I have lots of memories of Dunlop and Ranken. I used to play in and around the air raid shelter behind Makro and mess around outside the Dunlop and Ranken warehouse before it was demolished...then we messed around on the rubble, lol. Lots of cool stuff up on those fields, I especially love that old train bridge near the air raid shelter.

Phallica2000 · Post by **Phallica2000** » Sun 09 Sep, 2012 7:01 pm

LS1 wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30379947@N ... tream/This one is good, think it's Gelderd Road and the bridge that leads to the old 1882 Holbeck Viaduct. If you look closely on the way out of Leeds you can still see the imprint of the sign. Yeah, I spent a lot of time there as one of my best friends (who's house I basically lived at for years) lived on Shafton Lane in Holbeck, feet away from the viaduct.

Phallica2000 · Post by **Phallica2000** » Sun 09 Sep, 2012 7:02 pm

tilly wrote: Phallica2000 wrote: tilly wrote: Phallica2000 wrote: anthonydna wrote: I think the biggest difference is just how much more colourful things are these days. I'm tempted to go out myself and take the photos for you, lol. Hi Phallica 2000 Welcome to the site. Hello there, nice to meet you. Hi again Phallica you have some nice photographs on your flickr site. Thankyou. Admittedly the old ones are just saved from Leodis but I saved the ones most memorable to me, especially of Armley and Wortley though I now live in Moortown.

Phallica2000 · Post by **Phallica2000** » Sun 09 Sep, 2012 7:05 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: Nice project here:http://www.cityliving.co.uk/blog/articl ... /comparing the same sites 100 years on. I'd give anything to go back 100 years and walk around the city centre. *sigh*