Harehiils Park / Yorkshire water.

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Mon 02 Mar, 2009 6:31 pm

Jak wrote: blackprince wrote: Brandy wrote: Well when i say 'fountains' there more like large stone blocks with taps stuck on lolHeres whats left of the stone and in my lifetime (38yrs) ive never known em to work,but my mam's said they did when she was a kid. I had completely forgotten about these fountains ( or taps) until you jogged my memory but I now have a very vague recollection of drinking from them. Public drinking fountains in parks were more important in those days when nobody would dream of buying or carrying bottled water around with them all the time and dehydration was something you got crossing the Sahara not playing cricket on Harehills park.Now that everybody under 50 can't jog for half a mile without swigging overpriced water from a plastic bottle, which then becomes a disposal problem, I can understand why the local authorities no longer maintain the public drinking fountains. But I fail to see why the councils have done away with the public loos the Victorians and Edwardians thoughtfully provided. IPLAYED CRICKET AND FOOTBALL ON THE PARK BETWEEN 1948&58 AND NEVER SAW ANY TAP IF THERE WAS ONE IT WOULDNT HAVE LASRED FIVE MINUTES. Maybe I'm suffering from false memory syndrome!

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Mon 02 Mar, 2009 8:50 pm

blackprince wrote: Jak wrote: blackprince wrote: Brandy wrote: Well when i say 'fountains' there more like large stone blocks with taps stuck on lolHeres whats left of the stone and in my lifetime (38yrs) ive never known em to work,but my mam's said they did when she was a kid. I had completely forgotten about these fountains ( or taps) until you jogged my memory but I now have a very vague recollection of drinking from them. Public drinking fountains in parks were more important in those days when nobody would dream of buying or carrying bottled water around with them all the time and dehydration was something you got crossing the Sahara not playing cricket on Harehills park.Now that everybody under 50 can't jog for half a mile without swigging overpriced water from a plastic bottle, which then becomes a disposal problem, I can understand why the local authorities no longer maintain the public drinking fountains. But I fail to see why the councils have done away with the public loos the Victorians and Edwardians thoughtfully provided. IPLAYED CRICKET AND FOOTBALL ON THE PARK BETWEEN 1948&58 AND NEVER SAW ANY TAP IF THERE WAS ONE IT WOULDNT HAVE LASRED FIVE MINUTES. Maybe I'm suffering from false memory syndrome! Should that be F M S ?

Post by **cnosni** » Mon 02 Mar, 2009 11:58 pm

sundowner wrote: blackprince wrote: Jak wrote: blackprince wrote: Brandy wrote: Well when i say 'fountains' there more like large stone blocks with taps stuck on lolHeres whats left of the stone and in my lifetime (38yrs) ive never known em to work,but my mam's said they did when she was a kid. I had completely forgotten about these fountains ( or taps) until you jogged my memory but I now have a very vague recollection of drinking from them. Public drinking fountains in parks were more important in those days when nobody would dream of buying or carrying bottled water around with them all the time and dehydration was something you got crossing the Sahara not playing cricket on Harehills park.Now that everybody under 50 can't jog for half a mile without swigging overpriced water from a plastic bottle, which then becomes a disposal problem, I can understand why the local authorities no longer maintain the public drinking fountains. But I fail to see why the councils have done away with the public loos the Victorians and Edwardians thoughtfully provided. IPLAYED CRICKET AND FOOTBALL ON THE PARK BETWEEN 1948&58 AND NEVER SAW ANY TAP IF THERE WAS ONE IT WOULDNT HAVE LASRED FIVE MINUTES. Maybe I'm suffering from false memory syndrome! Should that be F M S ?

Post by **cnosni** » Tue 03 Mar, 2009 12:05 am

wiggy wrote: Brandy wrote: cnosni wrote: Brandy wrote: cnosni wrote: Chuffing hell Brandy,i dont remember any bogs at Air rills park,where were they? Lol i cant remember em myself Chris im just going off what mi mam's told me mate.By all accounts they were just here marked in blue.I think we covered it on the lost bogs of Leeds thread Cheers mate.Funnily enough thats where i would go for a waz when playing 50 a side on the park,so it was okay then i suppose. Here's one for you Chris.I have a vague memory of large marquee's on the park with some kind of preaching going on?? Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time? who knows can anyone help me out here lol yes,i remember that was billy graham (i think) in the early 80s. It was some sort of religious group,but it wasnt Billy Graham.Can you imagine him staying at the Windmill Hotel!!

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Tue 03 Mar, 2009 12:23 pm

cnosni wrote: wiggy wrote: Brandy wrote: cnosni wrote: Brandy wrote: cnosni wrote: Chuffing hell Brandy,i dont remember any bogs at Air rills park,where were they? Lol i cant remember em myself Chris im just going off what mi mam's told me mate.By all accounts they were just here marked in blue.I think we covered it on the lost bogs of Leeds thread Cheers mate.Funnily enough thats where i would go for a waz when playing 50 a side on the park,so it was okay then i suppose. Here's one for you Chris.I have a vague memory of large marquee's on the park with some kind of preaching going on?? Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time? who knows can anyone help me out here lol yes,i remember that was billy graham (i think) in the early 80s. It was some sort of religious group,but it wasnt Billy Graham.Can you imagine him staying at the Windmill Hotel!! ha ha ..how about one of the michellin abodes on harehills avenue..

MaidenLUFC · Post by **MaidenLUFC** » Mon 14 Jun, 2010 11:41 pm

The YW building on the east side of Harehills Lane where it meets the top of Lupton Avenue is shortly to become... NETTO!

chemimike · Post by **chemimike** » Tue 15 Jun, 2010 1:12 am

Don't you mean ASDA, as they have taken Netto over. Will they still want the site now?

MaidenLUFC · Post by **MaidenLUFC** » Tue 15 Jun, 2010 10:07 pm

Construction is still underway and the signs are still up saying it is to become a Netto... I hope ASDA take them over and turn the Netto's into small "express" ASDA's. That would be convenient.

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 15 Jun, 2010 10:43 pm

MaidenLUFC wrote: Construction is still underway and the signs are still up saying it is to become a Netto... I hope ASDA take them over and turn the Netto's into small "express" ASDA's. That would be convenient. ASDA are to rebrand Neto as ASDA Outlets - whatever that means. This development was noted somewhere on here a while ago together with thestart of development for what is thought to be an Aldi on the site of the old 'Seacroft' opposite the Neto on Barwick Road at Seacroft.

MaidenLUFC · Post by **MaidenLUFC** » Tue 15 Jun, 2010 11:38 pm

There's also a Morrisons being built on the site of the former Tradex, further down Harehills Lane opposite the massive mosque.