Leeds on screen

Loinerpete · Post by **Loinerpete** » Tue 20 Mar, 2007 4:02 pm

INDOOR LEAGUE!!!! wow, Fiery Fred always had a pint in his hand and he was the linkman for all the stuff like shuv halpenny and table football, and he would say..."wiv a lad ere that sez ee can chuck arras"...and when the camera came back to him he would say "ey up".....treeemenose stuff.....i remember when the irish centre first opened and they used to run a youth club, great days. AL SI THI

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Wed 21 Mar, 2007 3:34 pm

Rag Dolly Anna in the tenaments under the railway arches near the bus station. Think directly over the railway viaduct behind The Lloyds Arms.Pat Coombes was the lady who knitted the doll and asI recall it was just a series of stills and very short bits of live footage. From early 80's.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443400/

willo · Post by **willo** » Wed 21 Mar, 2007 4:48 pm

Don't forget about 'Jimmys'. This was of course based at St James Hospital and ran for some years on the national network. I saw loads of people I knew and hadn't seen for years on this programme, don't know why it was shelved.

Dave H · Post by **Dave H** » Thu 22 Mar, 2007 11:57 am

Leeds centre appeared in the film 'BillyLiar' by Keith Waterhouse. City Square - Tom Courtney and Rodney Bewes walking through and chatting...by the way, the square had its original granite baulistrades in the scene which were removed in the late 60s ...and re-discovered and replaced a few years ago.The Headrow was also used for the scene where billy imagines he is leader of his own country and is taking part in a celebration parade.

Loinerpete · Post by **Loinerpete** » Thu 22 Mar, 2007 3:11 pm

A lot of billy liar was shot over in bradford in that god awful early sixties city centre thats now a huge hole in the ground.

Beeston mick · Post by **Beeston mick** » Thu 22 Mar, 2007 5:30 pm

Does anybody remember THERE IS A HAPPY LAND.wrote by keith waterhouse and filmed in midddleton.I remember the tv crew filming in the woods between the clearings and the golf course. It must have been the very early 70s?

Loinerpete · Post by **Loinerpete** » Thu 22 Mar, 2007 6:04 pm

i remember that, the great brian pringle played a slightly strange character called "uncle mad"...i think it was set in the middleton of the 30`s or 40`s.

20522tay · Post by **20522tay** » Thu 22 Mar, 2007 6:16 pm

In the current copy of About Leeds it says that the David Jason series a Touch of Frost has been filmed in and around Leeds any ideas where

wsmith · Post by **wsmith** » Thu 22 Mar, 2007 6:22 pm

Haha. I like this story.Several years ago a couple of my friends were approached so that their flat could be used for the filming of A TOUCH OF FROST. They were offered 75 quid per day for two days & were put up in the Queen's Hotel while filming went on.Their house was on Kensington Terrace. Filming was to happen in the kitchen. The kitchen window looked out onto a big wall on the other side of the street. On the morning they arrived, the film crew discovered that someone had spray-painted the phrase DAVID JASON IS A JAMPOT on the wall for all to see.It took most of the day for the film crew to scrub it off, so my mates got another 75 quid each, & an extra night in the Queens.We never discovered who did the deed. Or, indeed, what being a JAMPOT might involve. Any suggestions, anyone?

Ro-Man · Post by **Ro-Man** » Thu 22 Mar, 2007 7:05 pm

No idea what a Jampot is, but that's a great story.I think some, if not all, of the internal office shots for Frost were filmed in the disused office building on Headingley Lane - the one opposite Johnson's Dry Cleaners.I'm not sure if they still do, but Yorkshire TV used to leave yellow arrow signs on lamposts when they were filiming in the area to direct the film crew. "TOF" was "Touch of Frost", "FF" Fat Friends etc.Once you knew this you had a good idea what was going on and could usually match up the location to the scene. One summer, the office block on Headingley Lane had a couple of blacked out windows on the second or third floor, with loads of TOF arrows pointing to it and crew milling around. I can only assume this was the office location. The building is still empty if anyone is brave enough to sneak in and confirm it, as I'm sure the crew left the blackouts on the windows until really recently.There was also a Frost scene filmed in a computer lab in Leeds Met's Library at Beckett Park (I worked there at the time). The crew were there for a couple of days, and the final scene lasted about 2 minutes. No wonder actors say they get bored between scenes. The scene was Frost asking a young lad about a stolen drivers licence.