Skelton's Hosiery and Menswear

Patexpat · Post by **Patexpat** » Thu 07 May, 2009 1:04 pm

Sat at my desk wasting the last few minutes before home time by browsing Secret Leeds, I had a flash back to when as a schoolkid I has a Saturday job at Skelton's Menswear, about 3 doors up from The City Varieties on The Headrow.This would be the early/mid 70's but it was an amazing place even then - I guess it looked straight out of somewhere like Beamish now! All brass and glass with an old mechanical 'sit up and beg' cash register with the stock being kept in the basement, access via a wooden trapdoor behind the counter! Very upmarket boasting the likes of Don Revie and Billy Bremner as customers - even back then shirts were as much as 15 quid plus if I remember correctly, and as I got a huge discount especially at sales time I was probably the best dressed 16 year old around :-)So just wondered if anyone remembered it? Not sure when it closed as I moved away from Leeds to go to Uni.Oh yes - think I got paid around 3 pounds a day!!!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Thu 07 May, 2009 1:25 pm

This one?http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

Patexpat · Post by **Patexpat** » Thu 07 May, 2009 1:30 pm

exactly that one! Ta very much! Not that I was around in 1949 mind you .... I did find a reference on Leodis about Skelton's back to 1930 ...

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Fri 08 May, 2009 10:05 pm

sites down again i see grrrrrr

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Fri 08 May, 2009 10:33 pm

Those windows above...they look strangely deserted don't they? Offices perhaps? I often used to wonder who inhabited the dirty windowed upper floors of many of the shops in the city centre.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Sat 09 May, 2009 9:45 am

Geordie-exile wrote: Those windows above...they look strangely deserted don't they? Offices perhaps? I often used to wonder who inhabited the dirty windowed upper floors of many of the shops in the city centre. I have been looking through a Memory lane Leeds book over the last few days and wondering exactly the same!Vast amounts of space above street level, with blank looking windows.The book I mentioned is compiled from the YEP archives and is full of fascinating pictures of Leeds in years gone by.Well worth a look if you can get a copy,I got mine at Just books in Otley £4.99!! (rrp £16.99)Bargain!