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Passing by the old Dispensary on North Street today (June 20 2012) I thought I would take some photos of this now for sale building which until recently(ish) was a centre for deaf people. I will have passed there many times but until today I never noticed that the building is on a road named Hartley Hill. The general area is just a parking area and I would not have thought part of it was a road that had a name! The photo shows all of Hartley Hill that comes off North Street and ends above the Inner Ring Road.I've looked at the Old-Maps UK website and there is no road there in an 1850 1:1,056 map. An 1891 1:500 map did however show and name the road (I shall post a copy of the area in a wider-covering 1893 map in another post). Hartley Hill (of which most of it still seems to remain) is clearly a survivor of the clearance for at least the Inner Ring Road and possibly other things.

This is the 1893 map that was taken from the Old-Maps UK website (it is an enlarged image so the quality is not as good as the original 1:2,500 map in the website). Note that the Dispensary marked on this map is not the Dispensary in this thread, as it is what was the Chest Clinic that is now Richer's store. The short length of Hartley Hill is clear in the map.

Just to finish, this is a close-up of the Hartley Hill name plate that is at the North Street end of the building.

Leodian wrote: This is the 1893 map that was taken from the Old-Maps UK website (it is an enlarged image so the quality is not as good as the original 1:2,500 map in the website). Note that the Dispensary marked on this map is not the Dispensary in this thread, as it is what was the Chest Clinic that is now Richer's store. The short length of Hartley Hill is clear in the map. Look at how many inner city houses there were - not one left??

The Parksider wrote: Leodian wrote: This is the 1893 map that was taken from the Old-Maps UK website (it is an enlarged image so the quality is not as good as the original 1:2,500 map in the website). Note that the Dispensary marked on this map is not the Dispensary in this thread, as it is what was the Chest Clinic that is now Richer's store. The short length of Hartley Hill is clear in the map. Look at how many inner city houses there were - not one left?? Yes the change in the area compared to today is quite staggering.

Has the deaf school been relocated?

book wrote: Has the deaf school been relocated? In some information I've found (dated 2012) it states "Leeds Deaf Social Club is based at Centenary House, the headquarters of coHearentvision which, until recently, was funded by Leeds City Council to provide a range of services to the Deaf community. The tender for these services has now been awarded to the Birmingham-based BID services that will operate in Leeds from a new building under the name of DALES. This means that Centenary House may have to close and the Deaf Social club will be without a home". In information I've found it states "DALES is a service for adults living in Leeds who are aged 18+ and are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Deafblind...The new services becomes operational on the 13th June, 2011, and is being managed by BID Services, a charity that works with Deaf, Deafened, Hard of Hearing and physically and sensory disabled people across the UK. The services will be delivered with Sense, a leading national charity supporting children and adults who are deafblind and Signhealth, a charity supporting deaf people with a focus on mental and physical healthcare. DALES is funded by Leeds City Council – Adult Social Care". The contact address is: 'DALES. BID Services. 9th floor. Minerva House. 29 East Parade. Leeds' but it was not clear if there is a Deaf Social Club there.    

The Parksider wrote: Look at how many inner city houses there were - not one left?? David Oluwale in the mid/late 1960 was sleeping rough and when not doing so lived in a derelict house in St Albans Pl. Don't know when the ring road cut through there.

book wrote: Has the deaf school been relocated? Don't know where it was, but is that why (when we drank there late 70's early 80's) The Templar Pub on Vicar Ln was known as a deaf pub with lots of deaf folk in there?

Here is a good photo of this street from 1968.http://www.flickr.com/photos/thanoz/5056379573/Regards.