Most impressive sites/events in Leeds

[Leeds Hippo]

Just been thinking about the most impressive sites I've seen in Leeds and here are a few.The helicopters landing on the roof of the LGI (when you are stood beneath them at the Jubilee wing and the down draft hits you in the face)The night Queen played at Elland Road football ground in the 80's I think - I was a mile away and walls shock!The morning cement/rock train at 6am travelling into Leeds beside the Whitehall Road - must be half a mile long and weigh a 1000 tons - makes the ground shake!Read about one before my time in the 1940's on new years day all the trains at the Copley yards would sound their whistles to welcome in the new year. The big Russian airplane landing at Yeadon airport - it seemed to stand still in the air as it approached over LeedsConcord landing at Yeadon airport - the noise was incredible.Again before my time but the Zeppelin flying over Leeds must have been something worth seeing.

[Richard A Thackeray]

1. I remember that (Antonov??) landing & it being on the TV2. Concorde! Ahh yes! practically everyone who heard it looked up to the skies.A few of mine - Seeing '4468 Mallard' in Leeds station on her 50th (speed record) anniversary runs - The incredible crowds for the Jane Tomlinson 10K runs - Bruce Springsteen in Roundhay Park - Steve Earle & The Dukes at the Leeds Irish Centre (back in about 1988???), when he was promoting 'Exit 0'(& again this year, at the Grand Theatre) - The 1992 World Cyclo-Cross Championships being held in Roundhay Park, & an English rider winning the Gold Medal & the 'Rainbow Jersey (Roger Hammond, who's now riding for the 'Cervelo Test Team')http://www.cervelo.com/en_us/testteam/r ... /11/Lizzie Armitstead (from Otley) also rides for Cervelo, & is the Under 23 British Road-Race Champion - The Leeds Classics (early-mid 90's) finishing in front of the Town Hall - A flight in a friends (1/4share??) Cessna, from Sherburn AeroClub, over the Yorkshire Dales & his being 'b*ll*cked' by Air Traffic Control for a small impingement for straying into Yeadons air-space. Whoops!!! (somewhere near Harewood)- Fred Dibnah (ie; 'an Audience With....') at the City Varieties, he just talked for 2 hours. What a man!He said he'd been walking around the city-centre, & was blown-away by the Victorian architecture - Mike Harding (years ago) at Grand Theatre - 'Blaster Bates' at (probably) the City Varieties    

[buffaloskinner]

Fred Dibnah and Mike Harding ... both top men in their different fields

[cnosni]

Saw Mike Harding at the Grand,loved his heavy metal cow horned viking helmeted segment.Personally i remember being one of the kids at Elland Road,stood in the Kop,when the queen came in 77,drove around in an open top pope mobile range rover.30,000 plus kids shouting "we want the queen" and mi mam listening to it live at Burtons on the factory radio (as she told me afterwards) will always stick in my memory.

[Brandy]

cnosni wrote: Personally i remember being one of the kids at Elland Road,stood in the Kop,when the queen came in 77,drove around in an open top pope mobile range rover.30,000 plus kids shouting "we want the queen" and mi mam listening to it live at Burtons on the factory radio (as she told me afterwards) will always stick in my memory. Yeah he took some bloody tackling in that pope mobile too did Graeme Le Saux lol    

[cnosni]

Brandy wrote: cnosni wrote: Personally i remember being one of the kids at Elland Road,stood in the Kop,when the queen came in 77,drove around in an open top pope mobile range rover.30,000 plus kids shouting "we want the queen" and mi mam listening to it live at Burtons on the factory radio (as she told me afterwards) will always stick in my memory. Yeah he took some bloody tackling in that pope mobile too did Graeme Le Saux lol     Brandy,all i can say is, as ever,as ever.You make this site,you really do.

[BLAKEY]

The wonderful "Festival of Britain" exhibition on Woodhouse Moor in 1951 - the worst effects of WW2 were thankfully receding and it was a time of happiness and hope when everybody seemed to "pull together,"

[Uno Hoo]

Leeds Hippo wrote: Just been thinking about the most impressive sites I've seen in Leeds and here are a few.Concord landing at Yeadon airport - the noise was incredible. Only half as incredible as when it took off!! Watched from Yeadon Tarn - all car alarms were triggered, and horses and sheep ran around in great distress.