a time machine

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 7:06 pm

rainone wrote: Go back to meet Rev Jenkinson in the 20's / 30's, bring him forward in time to show him that demolishing 30,000 houses and building Gipton, Seacroft, Quarry Hill, Belle Isle and Miggy, probably wasn't such a good idea. there was/is nothing wrong with the houses they were certainly better than the slums they replaced.

kierentc · Post by **kierentc** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 7:25 pm

wiggy wrote: rainone wrote: Go back to meet Rev Jenkinson in the 20's / 30's, bring him forward in time to show him that demolishing 30,000 houses and building Gipton, Seacroft, Quarry Hill, Belle Isle and Miggy, probably wasn't such a good idea. areas don't make themselves bad....it's thoughtlees people....the ones like '8 ace' from viz. my late aunt got a flat in gipton after living in a slum. she thought she'd died and gone to heavenwho could have predicted how some of these estates would have turned out 50 years or so later?

Bramley4woods · Post by **Bramley4woods** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 11:01 pm

kierentc wrote: wiggy wrote: rainone wrote: Go back to meet Rev Jenkinson in the 20's / 30's, bring him forward in time to show him that demolishing 30,000 houses and building Gipton, Seacroft, Quarry Hill, Belle Isle and Miggy, probably wasn't such a good idea. areas don't make themselves bad....it's thoughtlees people....the ones like '8 ace' from viz. my late aunt got a flat in gipton after living in a slum. she thought she'd died and gone to heavenwho could have predicted how some of these estates would have turned out 50 years or so later? My late Gran got turfed out of her slum house in Whitelock St. next to the "Stag" and the council gave her an upstairs flat in Wykebeck.She hated it, she had never had hot water before and was scared stiff the boiler would explode and flood the flat underneath.She pleaded and pleaded with the council until they eventually moved her to another slum house in Sheepscar. Two years on that was due to be demolished and the council gave her another slum house on Lincoln Green where she lived as happy as a pig in clabber until she died about four years later. Nobody moved in after her and the house was demolished about 4 months after she died.

kierentc · Post by **kierentc** » Mon 10 Mar, 2008 11:05 pm

Bramley4woods wrote: My late Gran got turfed out of her slum house in Whitelock St. next to the "Stag" and the council gave her an upstairs flat in Wykebeck. i wonder if it was the same one as my great aunt? highways?i know i said gipton but that was the nearest place i could think of. but it's probably wykebeck...she loved her flat but to all accounts her old house in holbeck was a genuine slum in every sense of the wordher friend next door got a house in gipton as she had children. they thought it was a palace...3 bedrooms, inside loo, bathroom, garden etc

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Wed 12 Mar, 2008 10:41 am

"pig in clabber" thats an unusual way of saying sh.... Never heard that one beforeIf I could go to any time in Leeds History, it's got to be the original settlement, down by the Parish church.

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Wed 12 Mar, 2008 11:04 am

I'd go back to 1966 and buy that suit I fancied in Ray Allan.my subsequent life would have been totally different.

Bramley4woods · Post by **Bramley4woods** » Wed 12 Mar, 2008 12:43 pm

simonm wrote: "pig in clabber" thats an unusual way of saying sh.... Never heard that one beforeIf I could go to any time in Leeds History, it's got to be the original settlement, down by the Parish church. Rab C Nesbitt ...Clabber is just pigswill.More particularly waste milk from a dairy that has soured and thickened.You know ... Used to make Yoghurt nowadays.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Fri 14 Mar, 2008 12:42 am

i'd love a pint in all the old long gone pubs,and a seriously dodgy meat pie at leeds fair,whilst chatting to thoresby.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 4:59 am

i would like to help the ak ak gunners during the war..

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Fri 21 Mar, 2008 5:00 am

fevlad wrote: I'd go back to 1966 and buy that suit I fancied in Ray Allan.my subsequent life would have been totally different. ray allan man shops! tha's showing tha's age lad.