Leeds in the 1870s

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Thu 20 May, 2010 8:40 am

Dakota wrote: that's funny - I'll have to remember it.

inadvertent joke, the photos on Leodis seem to be very grim and the sun was reputedly blocked by the smoke of the factory chimneys. They didn't work on sundays hence the sun being able to get through.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Thu 20 May, 2010 12:20 pm

Going across to Jimmies this afternoon,mam has an outpatient appointment.Will come back thro'the cemetry -dodging the drunks anddruggies -fortunately Mam will get transort home

Dakota · Post by **Dakota** » Thu 20 May, 2010 1:39 pm

Okay - a new tidbit to tuck away about Leeds "back in the day" when my greats were there - but it was still a good play on words about the sun shining so it must be a Sunday.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Thu 20 May, 2010 11:14 pm

As mentioned earlier the hospital is just across the road from the cemetry.Dakota willprobably find the museum which is based in theoldest part of the hospital interesting and get an insight of life in those days.www.thethackraymuseum.orghttp://www.leo ... 3_164620If you look at the above 2 photos from Leodis you can seethe state of the housing/poverty as recent as"1956"thoughI think this was the exception rather than the rule

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 20 May, 2010 11:28 pm

dogduke wrote: As mentioned earlier the hospital is just across the road from the cemetry.Dakota willprobably find the museum which is based in theoldest part of the hospital interesting and get an insight of life in those days.www.thethackraymuseum.orghttp://www.leo ... 3_164620If you look at the above 2 photos from Leodis you can seethe state of the housing/poverty as recent as"1956"thoughI think this was the exception rather than the rule The houses existing on the eastern side of Station Road in Crossgates were declared 'Insanitary' and condemded only shortly before the building of the Arndale Centre partly in their place.

Dakota · Post by **Dakota** » Fri 21 May, 2010 12:13 am

Thanks - I looked at the picture and it is pretty darn grim - hard to believe it was the mid 1950's. I'm going to look at the musuem site now.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Fri 21 May, 2010 4:04 pm

I had forgotten how many graves there are in that cemetery.Hundreds !!!!!!!!!!Have e-mailed 'the friends of Beckett Street Cemetery askingthem for help.Hopefully they cn point me in the right direction.Never noticed until today,but the large bsic headstoneson the communal graves are located between 2 plots and inscriptions of the dead on both sides of the central stone.Very frugal that generation.

Dakota · Post by **Dakota** » Fri 21 May, 2010 5:24 pm

Thank you so much for pursuing this - it's so frustrating not being there - like I can see it, but I just can quite reach it. I'd love to be able to just scoot over to Leeds for a couple of days and follow all of these tantalizing clues, but that's just not possible, so I really appreciate you following where the clues are leading.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Mon 24 May, 2010 2:00 am

Just to keep the thread live.Still waiting for a response from 'the friends'When I get it all together I willpost on here(when I learn how)or join flirkr etc.One option for Dakota might be images onto an SD card which I could post to you with details of what each image is.

Si · Post by Si » Mon 24 May, 2010 2:13 pm

I found a nice aerial picture on Leodis of St James's Hospital. The cleared site of Glebe Street can be seen to the left of the cemetery. I'd guess this was taken in the 1960s?