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Can anybody explain how Westlock Avenue avoideddemolition ?It is the only old property on Stoney Rock.That side of Stoney Rock Lane was I think demolished from the mid to late 70's.Some of the land was sold off to Barratt Homes for private housingand the council built on the rest down to Torre Road.THe houses on Westlock Avenue stood empty and roofless for several years until someone(who?) started to modernise/repair them.Was the property part of the Burton estate which it ajoins and somehow exempt from compulsory purchase?

dogduke wrote: Can anybody explain how Westlock Avenue avoideddemolition ?It is the only old property on Stoney Rock.That side of Stoney Rock Lane was I think demolished from the mid to late 70's.Some of the land was sold off to Barratt Homes for private housingand the council built on the rest down to Torre Road.THe houses on Westlock Avenue stood empty and roofless for several years until someone(who?) started to modernise/repair them.Was the property part of the Burton estate which it ajoins and somehow exempt from compulsory purchase? I remember the demolition of Stoney Rock - but I don't know why Westlock Avenue was left out. My dad used to work at Burton's - and he said that these houses belonged to Burton's - so that might have had something to do with it. Incidentally, I can't remember these houses ever being empty and roofless - and I delivered Liberal newsletters to them througout the late 1970's and early 1980's.

I remember them standing derelict, and getting renovated. It would be around 1988-95 i guess. There used to be a little tyre shop on the corner. Anyone remember it?    

[quotenick="Phill_dvsn"]I remember them standing derelict, and getting renovated. It would be around 1988-95 i guess. There used to be a little tyre shop on the corner. Anyone remember it? It was a dancing school for small chldren before that and isnowThe Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry.I had a puncture done at the tyre place,seemed like a 13 yr oldlad was running the it.(Term Time !)

[quotenick="dogduke"] Phill_dvsn wrote: I remember them standing derelict, and getting renovated. It would be around 1988-95 i guess. There used to be a little tyre shop on the corner. Anyone remember it? It was a dancing school for small chldren before that and isnowThe Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry.I had a puncture done at the tyre place,seemed like a 13 yr oldlad was running the it.(Term Time !) I stand corrected!

Aye, it was certainly derelict for a good while - I used to get the 16 bus past the end of the street on a regular basis to get into Leeds.It looked to be a nice little street when it was all done up, but I've no idea what it's like now.

Here you go Ravey!The houses were cement rendered when they were done up. I can't believe that pokey old tyre shop is still there, It still has the same old sign up lol Wasn't there a little cafe, or sarnie shop next to it in years gone by?

Cheers.I must have spent 5 years in the late 80's / early 90's passing there twice a day on the bus to and from work and I don't remember there being a sandwich shop. I can definitely remember them fitting tyres out on the street though!

I can't remember ever going in the shop - but I used to pass it on the bus on my way home from school in the 1960's and 1970's. I was always fascinated by the sign on the wall advertising 'Fry's Five Boys' chocolate - which was a very old sign even then. So it must have been some kind of sweet shop or grocer's shop at one time.

In the 70's when we first lived 'in the Rock' itwas your usual corner -'Arkwright' shop wich soldmost things.Not many properties had frontages on to Stoney Rock as I recall,there was this shop,Butlers printers and right downat the bottom end a fish shopAll the other street ends were part of the housing.One or two had entrances to Burtons,I think Fraser street was one,does anyone have photos of Burtons boundary then ?