SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Emily, and she had a shop, a rather unusual shop!Perhaps once inside a moustachioed fez-wearing shopkeeper might invite you through a magic door!So where in Leeds can you find this colourful little curiosity shop?    

Phill, I'll save you a job and ban myself from this one!

Tasa wrote: Phill, I'll save you a job and ban myself from this one! Yeah I know you've seen these pop up on my flickr over the years. I'm never sure how easy or hard they'll be myself

Is this the ex record and book shop off Midland Road, Hyde Park? (Back Kensington Terrace perhaps) I haven't been there for some years, but the shops seem familiar.

jim wrote: Is this the ex record and book shop off Midland Road, Hyde Park? (Back Kensington Terrace perhaps) I haven't been there for some years, but the shops seem familiar. Hey how about that Jim, you've surprised me there.Well done, It's very much out of the way and hid down a back street. As far as I know the place is still listed as Desperate Dan records.Here it is on street viewhttp://g.co/maps/8k3pbAll these interesting and curious places seem to be around the Leeds 6, Headingley/Hyde Park student land areas.    

I've always been an inveterate searcher for second hand record and book shops Phill, and I lived on Ash Grove for five years in the 1980s. I suppose the two might have been connected! Don't remember the graffiti though.

jim wrote: I've always been an inveterate searcher for second hand record and book shops Phill, and I lived on Ash Grove for five years in the 1980s. I suppose the two might have been connected! Don't remember the graffiti though. Jim, you will probably remember it as Bookside - I think I spent half the 1980s browsing in there as I lived at Hyde Park at the time! It was a damp place and they didn't look after the books very well, often keeping them in cardboard boxes on the floor, but I found some absolute gems in there!

I used to travel by national express (ha ha) a lot back then. Bought loads of reading material from there. All sorts of stuff. Still have some of it.

I must have passed it a thousand times walking from the paprika coffee bar at Hyde Park to Burley but can't remember it.

Tasa wrote: [Jim, you will probably remember it as Bookside Hi Tasa. Even with the reminder I can't remember the name - though I do recall the Desperate Dan name now that Phill reminds me of it. Next question - what were the names of the two SH book shops just west of the Hyde Park corner, on the north side? The first one in particular was a treasure trove of a place for me, even with its totally rabbit-warren configuration and seriously unsafe upper floor.