Tower Works-traders and owners?

[wsmith]

Maybe that is why there is that weird porcupine or hedgehog metal sign over one of the doors on Globe Road? Has anyone seen it? Does anyone remember what business that was a sign for?

[volksy]

Hello all, I've been a lurker on here for a while, just not got round to actually posting.I was a good freind and employee of Charles at DCM for a few years. He indeed was a bit of a character, and a perfectionist. He ended up with three Scammell Tank recovery trucks, that he used to store up at Eccup, He used to give me a lift into work in them some days, was great fun in the morning rush hour traffic! He passed the business on to the chief mechanic - Simon, but with Citroen cars becoming less of a specialised marque, business was already difficult and the garage closed soon after. I remember the customer base was loyal to charles he was indeed Paris factory trained, and an absolute font of knowledge. We lost touch not long after the garage closed as I moved away to Italy. The land he bought - and then sold - on whitehall road, was his retirement fund. Seemed to work for him!Other places in tower works were, Roverland, run by an equally eccentric chap called Adrian, he was originally located on water lane, but moved into tower works. He specialised in Breaking old Rovers. It had a somewhat transient nature did tower works, with businesses appearing and disappearing over night. but a few companies did stay quite a while, including the afforementioned engineers and a neon lighting producer.

[Phill_dvsn]

I've got a nice shot looking down into Tower works from the nearby building site herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/3532847893/It's a view you don't normally see.It doesn't look as glamourous in the yard as those ornate towers suggest it might be

[Reginal Perrin]

Wow the old David Street Cafe. I used to go in there every morning for a bacona nd egg. Used to park pretty much just outside when there was free parking on the street.    

[leedslily]

wsmith wrote: Maybe that is why there is that weird porcupine or hedgehog metal sign over one of the doors on Globe Road? Has anyone seen it? Does anyone remember what business that was a sign for? Not sure what the business was, but I've a picture of the sign here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leedslily/ ... 937973386/

[Richard A Thackeray]

When I worked for a major photographic business in Leeds (circa 86 - 97), we bought our printer/enlarger bulbs from a chap who had one of the shops more or less on the junction of Water Lane/Globe RoadHe was called Harry Baskind, if I remember correctly.Despite (probably?) being in his late 60s at the time, he always seemed to have very pretty young (late teens/early 20's) girls working for him.Spawny git!

[Cardiarms]

Did you pop your bulbs on a regular basis?I'll get me coat......

[dogduke]

RichT wrote: When I worked for a major photographic business in Leeds (circa 86 - 97), we bought our printer/enlarger bulbs from a chap who had one of the shops more or less on the junction of Water Lane/Globe RoadHe was called Harry Baskind, if I remember correctly.Despite (probably?) being in his late 60s at the time, he always seemed to have very pretty young (late teens/early 20's) girls working for him.Spawny git! There was (I don't think it's there now) at the junc of Grove Lane at the Headingley end a Baskind Imagery,got some photos put on tea mugs there.I think it may have gone now,nothing in the phone book

[Cardiarms]

IIRC it was Baskind's Chemists orignally and the photography and reprographics eventually took over.

[Brandy]

Cardiarms wrote: Did you pop your bulbs on a regular basis?I'll get me coat...... LOL