National Express on Wellington Street

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Thu 08 Mar, 2007 4:10 pm

Anyone got a picture of this place. Remember using it as a student but was away in London when it was closed and built upon.

wsmith · Post by **wsmith** » Thu 08 Mar, 2007 4:44 pm

No pics - but it represented my first experience of Leeds - me & my big sis sent on a National Express journey from London to Darlington when I was about 9. Missed the connection & had to sit in this cold yard between tall featureless walls of buildings for two hours. It was pretty grim. If someone'd told me then that I was gonna spend more than half my life & counting in this city, I would've been pretty damn unhappy.Wasn't it just in a space where a building had been demolished? All the walls facing over it were windowless & there was a portacabin for a ticket office. Grim.

wsmith · Post by **wsmith** » Thu 08 Mar, 2007 4:53 pm

This picture is probably slightly older than that day I spent there with my sister.

madhouse · Post by **madhouse** » Thu 08 Mar, 2007 5:51 pm

No pictures, but my office used to look out over it - we were situated on York Place which runs parallel to Wellington Street. I think they built on it in around 1998.

munki · Post by **munki** » Thu 08 Mar, 2007 6:01 pm

Actually, thinking back on it, I'm hardly suprised no one took any pictures!

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Thu 08 Mar, 2007 6:34 pm

It was a pretty grim place I suppose, and in a crazy location - but I'm sure I cant be alone in having some happier memories of the place - setting off for Manchester Airport and my Honeymoon, travelling down to London to watch a test match at Lord's....

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Mon 19 Mar, 2007 2:17 pm

It was owned at one time by the West Yorkshire Roadcar Company, my dad worked their on occasions, his base was Vicar Lane. Remenber getting the South West clipper from here to Newquay, took about 14 hours with a change at Cheltenham.My Dad thought it was originally built to serve Central Station with buses from the North connecting with the trains

liits · Post by **liits** » Sun 25 Mar, 2007 4:58 pm

The big ugly, semi-gothic looking building to the left of Wellington St bus station stood empty for many years, when it came to being re-developed [I think, in the early 1970's] a mummified body was found inside one of the chimneys.

liits · Post by **liits** » Sun 25 Mar, 2007 4:59 pm

correction, it was to the right of the bus station, I never did know l from r!

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Tue 27 Mar, 2007 10:52 am

I'm generally more interested in recent history than that beyond my recollections and places such as this and the Green Bus Station on Vicar Lane fascinate me. The old bus and train stations too.We will look back and wish we'd recorded things better. This site is great for that.Too often we flatten things to make progress and replace them with far less worthy buildings. I give you the orange brick revolution in the 80's, horrid horrid buildings such as the Crown Court, it looks like a bad suburban sports centre.