Leeds Light

[BLAKEY]

One of the shops nearest to the Town Hall end of The Headrow was a showroom for the SKF roller bearing company - a very well respected make in engineering circles.Some of the upstairs offices at the eastern (top) end were occupied by Leeds City Council Planning Department.

[LS1]

Here you go, Upper Fountain Street on the left, and the alliance and Leicester is where the O'Neills surfer shop is now.

[LS1]

Whilst we're on the subject, I can't remember if Dudley House was demolised to make way for the K2 building, or if it was refurbished.Bin thinkin about it for a while now and would be grateful is someone could tell me and put my mind at rest!Cheers

[big_rob2004]

Now I can see what you mean... You can see the difference in the building types even now (i think)... and wasn't Upper Fountain Street where the Valentines Fair used to be held?

[LS1]

Here is a good one courtesy of Leodis. You can see how Upper Fountain Street has been removed now ant eh raised walkway into the light from Albion Street covers most of the lower part of the back of the old perm. building.

[LS1]

big_rob2004 wrote: Now I can see what you mean... You can see the difference in the building types even now (i think)... and wasn't Upper Fountain Street where the Valentines Fair used to be held? Valentines fair used to be where Milennium Square is now, used to be a bit of waste ground next to the Cuthbert Broderick and part of it was there. I've got to admit, I'm slightly too young to really have remembered or taken notice of what was there before the bulk of the light was built. I do remember walking and parking on Fountain Street, and there were a load of bikes always parked under the Arch near where Bagel Nash is now....

[chameleon]

LS1 wrote: Whilst we're on the subject, I can't remember if Dudley House was demolised to make way for the K2 building, or if it was refurbished.Bin thinkin about it for a while now and would be grateful is someone could tell me and put my mind at rest!Cheers It never quite seemed to disappear so surely refurbed, bigger, different colour... rather the way they did Royal Exchange and the old PO sorting office - that always looked big, hard to visualise how small it was next to the resultant appartment conglomeration now. And no sign of the lower street on old maps back to 1854.

[Bramley4woods]

'Arry 'Awk wrote: big_rob2004 wrote: Can anyone remember the building that is now the Leeds Light? I remember as a kid when I used to wait for the bus on the Headrow that there was a "tat" shop somewhere around where Ark(?) is now. I can't remember what the other shops were on the front or what the rest of the building was used for. I am 25 now so I won't remember it in its hey day but just before it became The Light... even then I don't remember much of it! I think you'll find that the 'Tat' shop was called 'The Stop and Shop'!Very cheap but mainly rubbish! Brollies for 99p which when you pressed the release button,didn't just spring open but the whole'cover and ribs shot 6ft in the air!We also bought a reel to reel tape recorder for about £3.for our14 yr old son's birthdayIt was fine for speech but if he tried to record owt on TOTPIt sounded like an Iraqi revivalist Meeting! No cinc at all!We learn the hard way and son not best pleased!Apart from that shop. I seem to remember that the upper floorsof that building were a solicitors and a medical inspectionsuite for people on long term sick (to check for skivers!)Hope that helps,Rob? I find it hard to recall what was therebefore The LightArry In addition to those already mentioned.At various and sundry times I remember on that frontage :The Electricity Board Offices and Showrooms.A Greek Cypriot coffee bar.The Scout and Guide shop.A Craft shopThe rather strange roller bearing emporium already mentionedA "Gestetner" copier / duplicator outlet. (Maybe)An Austicks specialist bookshop. These memories may be up to 50 years apart, and could be wrong altogether    

[slw]

Fox's Musical Instruments was there at one point, near the scout/guide shop.

[chameleon]

Bramley4woods wrote: 'Arry 'Awk wrote: big_rob2004 wrote: Can anyone remember the building that is now the Leeds Light? I remember as a kid when I used to wait for the bus on the Headrow that there was a "tat" shop somewhere around where Ark(?) is now. I can't remember what the other shops were on the front or what the rest of the building was used for. I am 25 now so I won't remember it in its hey day but just before it became The Light... even then I don't remember much of it! I think you'll find that the 'Tat' shop was called 'The Stop and Shop'!Very cheap but mainly rubbish! Brollies for 99p which when you pressed the release button,didn't just spring open but the whole'cover and ribs shot 6ft in the air!We also bought a reel to reel tape recorder for about £3.for our14 yr old son's birthdayIt was fine for speech but if he tried to record owt on TOTPIt sounded like an Iraqi revivalist Meeting! No cinc at all!We learn the hard way and son not best pleased!Apart from that shop. I seem to remember that the upper floorsof that building were a solicitors and a medical inspectionsuite for people on long term sick (to check for skivers!)Hope that helps,Rob? I find it hard to recall what was therebefore The LightArry In addition to those already mentioned.At various and sundry times I remember on that frontage :The Electricity Board Offices and Showrooms.A Greek Cypriot coffee bar.The Scout and Guide shop.A Craft shopThe rather strange roller bearing emporium already mentionedA "Gestetner" copier / duplicator outlet. (Maybe)An Austicks specialist bookshop. These memories may be up to 50 years apart, and could be wrong altogether     Remember the Scout n Guide shop Arry and Austicks now you remind us, that was the main OS map outlet at the time