Women Transport Workers in Wartime[Leeds Trams]

Railways, trams, buses, etc.
Jogon
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Here's a cheery shot. I hope that a relative may be watching SL, that would be nice.Also could our eagle-eyed scene spotters please say where this is?1942Mrs Winifred Twigg, a tram conductress, climbs aboard her tram in Leeds, England.    

Jogon
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Whilst Mrs Ada Stone smiles for the camera on her milk round, somewhere in Leeds, c 1942.Where is it? Do we know her?    

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Your first picture looks like Swinegate alongside the tram depot, looking under the City Station railway bridge towards the Scarborough Hotel Jogon

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Great photos Jogon, the top one was taken on Swinegate outside the tram shed. This is the very same spot on street viewhttp://goo.gl/maps/vIVR    
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Jogon wrote: Here's a cheery shot. I hope that a relative may be watching SL, that would be nice.Also could our eagle-eyed scene spotters please say where this is?1942Mrs Winifred Twigg, a tram conductress, climbs aboard her tram in Leeds, England. Looks a bit Swinegate-y, Jogon. Can't help with the other pic. though. But both great photos.JD

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A great photo to remind us how it was, your photographer would have been stood near the part of the tram shed with scaffold erected.
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There was me thinking lower briggateI like your 70's? pic, I can sort of remember that. I never quite understood whether the tram sheds were the Queens Hall and why there was a chest xray place in a tram shed..?Soz to sound thick but I can't place the stuff on your 70's pic.    Canudo a current streetview of 'that photo'Ta

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Anthony Porter's Flea market, got dragged around a few of them. What year is that pic? Early 80s? A bit different today:http://goo.gl/maps/Bf3u

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Jogon wrote: Canudo a current streetview of 'that photo'Ta Here you go, note the same Concordia street sign in the same place.http://goo.gl/maps/dvjO
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Cardiarms wrote: Anthony Porter's Flea market, got dragged around a few of them. What year is that pic? Early 80s? A bit different today:http://goo.gl/maps/Bf3u At the risk of being horribly wrong, the bus is in Yorkshire Rider colours, which makes it post deregulation - so 1986 onwards?That is supported by one of the cars - just behind the blue Escort estate car is what appears to be a Mk IV Escort waiting to pull out of the junction - which again makes it 1986 or later.Finally having consulted a calendar, it seems that Saturday 9th September (as advertised for the flea market) would make this 1989!
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