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There's a couple of streets from Leeds featured in the last 2 picturesI was thinking that they were in Holbeck, perhaps around the Runswick Terrace area??? (other side of the M621, from Cemetery Road)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ation.html

I had thought the one with the flats would be easier to locate but I suspect the man walking across wasteground may be heading towards Holbeck Moor Road and the M621 based on this image from 1963. Although I can’t quite see the wall.http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... PLAY=FULLI am guessing that the flats in the 2nd are the pair just before Oldield Lane cuts off Tong Road or the pair at the junction but both would put the location over Gelderd/Whitehall Roads. Is that a railway embankment obscuring the spire at the end of the road?

tyke bhoy wrote: I had thought the one with the flats would be easier to locate but I suspect the man walking across wasteground may be heading towards Holbeck Moor Road and the M621 based on this image from 1963. Although I can’t quite see the wall.http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... PLAY=FULLI am guessing that the flats in the 2nd are the pair just before Oldield Lane cuts off Tong Road or the pair at the junction but both would put the location over Gelderd/Whitehall Roads. Is that a railway embankment obscuring the spire at the end of the road? Agree with flats location at Oldfield lane but not the Holbeck location. The waste ground in the top of the Leodis picture is the result of the demolition of places such as Clayton street, Port street Woolich street, the Meynells etc. As a family we lived lived in clayton street prior to demolition, my parents lived there before the war , and the houses shown on the Daily mail page look nothing like the smaller one up one downs that were there, and by the time the shot of the walking man was taken in the seventies the new Meynell estate had been built so no waste ground.Would guess the photographer didn't wander too far from Armley and took the shot of the walking man nearer there. Also note the Beechams pills sign is on the house gable end in both shots with a white street sign and a white topped door entrance in the same place on both walls suggesting an identical location which discounts Holbeck if the flats are at the Oldfield lane site.    

Ah the good old days.

I think the spire on the background of the bottom picture is St mary's on Tong Road.http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

Judging from the height of the 'beecham's' picture he sat on the wall in the background of the 'man walking picture' but I still can't place it.

I would say that picture with the Beechams ad. is certainly not Holbeck but there must be someone around here who remembers those adverts on the side of houses and the area. Armley or Wortley seems to be probable.

Could it be cross oswald Street/Danube Viewhttp://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIde ... 5623Making the rough ground the old cricket ground. The wall and steps follow mill green goit, about where the dark grey roof warehose is to the bottom of the map, between Geldered Road and the rallway line.http://goo.gl/maps/wDb3xTHe big building at the end of the road is the old cattle market?What do you think?

They are (were) Danube Terrace, Danube View and Danube Place.The other end of these streets is Gelderd Road, and the waste ground in the foreground is the old Mill Green Rec. The photographer was probably stood at the end of Croydon Place near the Wortley railway embankment

Fantastic find - it is certainly the Mill Green recreation ground (the 'Lemmy)Theres a whole thread about it herehttp://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Messages.as ... ge=75Never seen as good a picture as the two on the daily mail site before though. You can work out the exact location from the aerial photo on page 1 of the above thread - look at the rough tracks.Love the 'life worth living' signs.