Cine film of old Leeds

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Sun 28 Jul, 2013 11:19 pm

I found an old spool of standard 8 film of old Leeds that I had forgotten about from years back.I will try to film it off and put it on YouTube or suchlike, but I wanted to see if anyone knew the locations. I seem to remember buying a job lot from an old bloke in Beeston including a projector and camera etc and he gave me a load of old film. Most was of family holidays which I got rid of, but there is about 75ft of old Leeds.Locations are:• Blackpool Street• A pub called "The City"• A cafe called "Fred's", green frontage. • Some shorts of Lands Lane, the International Pool, Bond Street• Branch Road• What looks like a pink fronted hairdressers called "Valarie's"I'll get the rest posted asap, though not sure of the first three locations I listed abouve and the last. Any ideas where they were?

Post by **mhoulden** » Mon 29 Jul, 2013 12:31 am

Google shows Blackpool St as being just off the outer ring road at Wortley: http://goo.gl/maps/vtXzA. On there it's a short stub but on the 1955 1:2500 map at Old Maps it's a continuation of Cow Close Grove which is made up of traditional back to backs. It might just be coincidence, but there's a green-fronted shop just round the corner here on Cow Close Road: http://goo.gl/maps/ZMwFW. There are a couple of pubs on the old maps, including the William IV on Lower Wortley Road and another near Forster Place which probably got zapped when the new housing estate was built.

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon 29 Jul, 2013 12:32 am

There used to be a Blackpool Street off Cow Close Road, Lower Wortley. There may have been a hairdressers of the name you quote nearby.

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Mon 29 Jul, 2013 8:58 am

A pub called The City quote LS117 Woodhouse Lanehttp://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIde ... SPLAY=FULL

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Mon 29 Jul, 2013 9:25 am

uncle mick wrote: A pub called The City quote LS!17 Woodhouse Lanehttp://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIde ... SPLAY=FULL What an architectural gem that building is............how some of our older buildings got demolished is a crying shame really..........it would today have been preserved and restored along the lines of The Garden Gate pub in Hunslet.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Mon 29 Jul, 2013 9:30 am

Can't keep everything somme!I think actually it could have been Wortley that I got these from now I think about it. That is not the pub that I saw in the film. Will have to copy it as best I can then post it so it can be seen by all...

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Mon 29 Jul, 2013 10:24 am

Valerie's Hairdressers 1969

Post by **mhoulden** » Mon 29 Jul, 2013 10:39 am

As luck would have it Valerie's is still there, but now called Jo Jo's. It even still has the same phone number (allowing for the 0532 --> 0113 2 change a while back). On Streetview at http://goo.gl/maps/xC2aR.

liits · Post by **liits** » Mon 29 Jul, 2013 10:47 am

Could it have been this one? The other City Hotel on Tong Road.Opened as a Beer House on the 8th December 1899 it was owned by the Mitchell family until the late 1930. Much of its business seems to have come from letting out the first floor rooms to lodges and friendly societies and they had a few slapped wrists for out of hours drinking in the rooms.It gained it's full Publicans License in February 1951 and lasted well into the 1960's and possibly the early 1970'sThe Leodis caption reads "6th May 1965. Leamington Street runs in descending order from the left edge to number 4 which is next to 87 Tong Road, a Ramsdens public house, The City Hotel. "

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Mon 29 Jul, 2013 1:49 pm

Yes, these are the two exact places that were in the film. There is also a bit of Branch Road street sign in the film so it makes sense this is where it is. I'll definitely try to get it on youtube later unless there is another way that is better to get it online?Appreciate you confirming the locations of a part of Leeds that I am not familiar with at all!Cheers!