Dawsons corner

pastaman · Post by **pastaman** » Sat 12 Mar, 2011 5:32 pm

Can someone please help me with the roundabout and area of Pudsey so named Dawsons corner, even the road sign says Dawsons corner at the meeting of the ring road and Leeds road near to the Owlcotes centre. But where does the name come from ?

jim · Post by **jim** » Sat 12 Mar, 2011 7:42 pm

I seem to have a dim and distant memory that the Dawson family owned property in the immediate vicinity, including a shop,and first the bend in the road and the local bus stop,and later the junction were named after them, with the Civic Centre following them in due course.When I first knew the area in the1950s neither the junction nor the Civic Centre existed