The Secret Guide to Leeds Toilets

j.c.d. · Post by **j.c.d.** » Sun 02 Feb, 2014 3:41 pm

[quotenick="Johnny39"][quotenick="jonleeds"]Well I'm not personally a 'toilet trader'...! but I've found that the loos in the Universities to be quite clean and modern and well signposted if you are in that area. Does anyone remember the public toilets that were below ground level in Leeds Kirkgate Market, just up by the Vicar Lane / Kirkgate corner of the market? There was also a gents barbers where you could get your hair cut by a Polish guy. Is he still there? If he isen't there are plenty of his relatives around to take his place.I think that was called Homburgs. there was also a Gents toilets near the Harper street entrance at the bottom of thr Market which was grotty in the 1950s when i was a Market Porter. Off the subject but opposit those toilets near the Kirkgate entrance there was a wooden flower stall called Ada Proctors (still there the last time i passed through) and one of my friends paid around £27,000 for it, plus he still had to pay his market rent. that shows what a good market it was in those days. don't suppose that stall would fetch anything like that money these days.

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Sun 02 Feb, 2014 4:47 pm

jonleeds wrote: There was also a gents barbers where you could get your hair cut by a Polish guy. Is he still there? The barbers shop is still there although the toilets aren't.I use it myself.Now run by a Scottish guy and one of the cheapest haircuts around.

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Sun 02 Feb, 2014 5:07 pm

Steve Jones wrote: jonleeds wrote: There was also a gents barbers where you could get your hair cut by a Polish guy. Is he still there? The barbers shop is still there although the toilets aren't.I use it myself.Now run by a Scottish guy and one of the cheapest haircuts around. Steve, is it cheaper than the £2 I pay to get a haircut at the Horsforth Salon (former Thomas Danby / Park Lane / Airedale & Wharfedale collect) at Horsforth roundabout? Of course you have to let students loose on your barnet but they arent complete amateurs and they have their tutors to correct any blunders... Personally I've always been pleased with the results.Also does anyone ever remember the public loos at the bottom of New Road Side - now derelict / bricked up? I cant imagine why there would have been public lavs in such a place. Who would have used them / cleaned them etc?

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sun 02 Feb, 2014 5:24 pm

Jogon wrote: Crown Point / Hunslet RoadExcellent facilities upstairs at 'Asda at Home' Crown Point also has public toilets in the "management suite" by the coffee shop (Costa?) / cash machine right in the far corner. Although they can be a bit hit and miss about the opening times, particularly shutting up shop before the stated closing time....

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Sun 02 Feb, 2014 6:39 pm

[Steve, is it cheaper than the £2 I pay to get a haircut at the Horsforth Salon (former Thomas Danby / Park Lane / Airedale & Wharfedale collect) at Horsforth roundabout? Of course you have to let students loose on your barnet but they arent complete amateurs and they have their tutors to correct any blunders... Personally I've always been pleased with the results.? No,it costs £3.50 last time I went ,mind you not as much hair to cut on me as there used to be<LOL>.

Post by **mhoulden** » Sun 02 Feb, 2014 6:50 pm

The bottom of New Road Side is a bit bereft now, but the toilets used to be next to the nearest bus stop to Kirkstall Forge and the quarries in Hawksworth Woods. Buses used to turn off there down Hawksworth Road even when the tram service was still operating (http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL) and there was a shop and a garage at the junction of New Road Side and Hawksworth Rd. The toilets were probably also piped straight into the old Horsforth sewage works which was just behind the wall.

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Mon 03 Feb, 2014 3:04 pm

mhoulden wrote: The bottom of New Road Side is a bit bereft now, but the toilets used to be next to the nearest bus stop to Kirkstall Forge and the quarries in Hawksworth Woods. Buses used to turn off there down Hawksworth Road even when the tram service was still operating (http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL) and there was a shop and a garage at the junction of New Road Side and Hawksworth Rd. The toilets were probably also piped straight into the old Horsforth sewage works which was just behind the wall. I see what you mean about it being 'bereft' now! I guess once upon a time before most people owned cars that this area was quite a hive of activity when folks were coming and going to work at the forge. I can recall a few years ago there being the Honda showroom and the bus stop built into the wall on Kirkstall Road is now bricked up sadly. Charming isnt it how Metro do away with perfectly good bus shelters and expect passengers to give up the personal comforts of a car to stand in the howling wind and rain?