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There is some very interesting newsreel footage on BBC LEEDS website. Football and cricket together with various other historical Leeds events all feature. I don't know if they have been on before but they were certainly new to me. All very interesting!

Johnny39 wrote: There is some very interesting newsreel footage on BBC LEEDS website. Football and cricket together with various other historical Leeds events all feature. I don't know if they have been on before but they were certainly new to me. All very interesting! I found the Leeds.v.Hunslet game 1925 a knockout with the teams battling it out on the old Parkside ground.Mine and railway buffs take note - there's the cuckoo steps over the beeston branch line with the new pit winding gear behind this, plus the old signal box and a train actually runs by as the teams are playing. I can't identify the chimney though??Absolutely great Johnny, please go on the search and put in "Hunslet" to pick this up. It actually bills the game as Leeds United.v.Hunslet!!

Also pick up on the open cast mining, especially 1943's "outcrop coal" film at Temple Newsam maybe before they called it "opencasting"..Then the Students on the Miggy Railway in "Students Railway". hard to pick up the locations until Parkside junction and Moor Road come into magnificent view-well done Johnny....Now back for more....

90,000 vids - I may never go out again.Fantastic archive,not just the Leeds stuff,something foreverybody.