SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

Crossing the beck - 1968

A Street view rip.

A very familiar view to me coming in to Leeds from the east on the omnibus. Even on the tramcar a few years earlier.

Well done.I thought that might've taken a bit, it looks so different to me.    

Lady Lloyds?

One of the few W&Ws that I recognised! If it was still cryptic I would have said there is a bank connection. I only ever went in once, which was a very long time ago that I recall, on a pub crawl.

hicklingmick wrote: If I had seen the 2nd photo 1st I wouldn"t have known where it was but the original is what i remember.When did it change and whats that glass building up Kirkgate? hicklingmick - I'm pretty sure it was Pilkington's the glass people.

Johnny39 wrote: hicklingmick wrote: If I had seen the 2nd photo 1st I wouldn"t have known where it was but the original is what i remember.When did it change and whats that glass building up Kirkgate? hicklingmick - I'm pretty sure it was Pilkington's the glass people. Pilkngtons is now the Mayfair/Mecca bimgo.Don't go in town too much but the shiny building is shopsand flats etc on the old little red bus station site.

dogduke wrote: Johnny39 wrote: hicklingmick wrote: If I had seen the 2nd photo 1st I wouldn"t have known where it was but the original is what i remember.When did it change and whats that glass building up Kirkgate? hicklingmick - I'm pretty sure it was Pilkington's the glass people. Pilkngtons is now the Mayfair/Mecca bimgo.Don't go in town too much but the shiny building is shopsand flats etc on the old little red bus station site. You're correct "dogduke". I was only getting half a photo on the old computer this is now rectified. I seem to recollect the "icehouse" being somewhere near the site where the glass building is located. I haven't lived in Leeds since 1979 so a lot of places I knew have altered in that time. For instance I didn't know The Lloyds Arms had been demolished.

dogduke wrote: Johnny39 wrote: hicklingmick wrote: If I had seen the 2nd photo 1st I wouldn"t have known where it was but the original is what i remember.When did it change and whats that glass building up Kirkgate? hicklingmick - I'm pretty sure it was Pilkington's the glass people. Pilkngtons is now the Mayfair/Mecca bimgo.Don't go in town too much but the shiny building is shopsand flats etc on the old little red bus station site. It used to amuse me to get on a bus in East Leeds and ask for a "ticket to Mayfair"...