A very old Establishment down the Skulls head yard (Part 1)

Hats Off · Post by **Hats Off** » Sat 05 Apr, 2008 4:11 pm

Not forgetting Hue & Cry's 1989 song "Looking For Linda". I was not looking for Linda, but Linda found me Hiding away on the slow train home 'Is this one for Paisley? Oh you've got to help me' (She used to work there a long time ago) She'd spent 35 pounds on one pack of ciggies Running an errand for him indoors Then she kept running straight down to Leeds Central Took Intercity and left her remorse I'm looking out for Linda...

Si · Post by Si » Sat 05 Apr, 2008 4:46 pm

I always thought it was "Leith Central", but with the Intercity reference, it must be Leeds.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 05 Apr, 2008 5:41 pm

No it was definately Leeds.Does anyone else remember Hue and Cry playing Roundhay Park in 1987 (I think)?OK, so they were the support act for Madonna, but thats still a pretty exclusive list they are on and I'll bet it's the biggest gig they've ever played!

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sat 05 Apr, 2008 8:59 pm

It was indeed 'Leeds Central' - chosen presumably because it 'scans ' well in a song - bit of a 'faux pas' though as the station closed in 1965 - long before 'intercity'!

Si · Post by Si » Mon 07 Apr, 2008 9:21 am

Thanks for that, chaps. I stand corrected. Now, is it "The Israelites," or "me ears are alight?"......

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Wed 09 Apr, 2008 7:57 pm

Walked past this place yesterday and had good old look at the cloth hall. If the council don't do summat pretty soon, it'll fall down on it's own, looking at the state of the structure.What a bloody shame that such an important piece of Leeds herritage is to be lost.

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Wed 09 Apr, 2008 9:56 pm

'ANOTHER' piece of Leeds heritage!!!

Forgetful Cat · Post by **Forgetful Cat** » Wed 09 Apr, 2008 10:13 pm

Back on topic...."In the book Haunted Leeds it has a picture of the skulls and says there were past the gate & had been removed years ago, seemingly no one knows what happened to them."They are at the rear of a very undistinguished seventies looking office block next to National Tyres at the Scott Hall end of Buslingthorpe Lane.Leeds Surrealist Group published a pamphlet of writings based on them in 2006.

Post by **cnosni** » Wed 09 Apr, 2008 10:30 pm

This old thread shows how weve been on about the White cloth hall beforehttp://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messages.aspx ... ighLight=1

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Wed 09 Apr, 2008 10:44 pm

Forgetful Cat wrote: Back on topic...."In the book Haunted Leeds it has a picture of the skulls and says there were past the gate & had been removed years ago, seemingly no one knows what happened to them."They are at the rear of a very undistinguished seventies looking office block next to National Tyres at the Scott Hall end of Buslingthorpe Lane.Leeds Surrealist Group published a pamphlet of writings based on them in 2006. Really? have you any pictures of them? I'd love to see. I can't for a minute think why they would be placed a mile away to mark an event a 100 years earlier on a 1970's building. very puzzling. Or have they been replaced there perhaps?