Clifford Street

[tilly]

Si wrote: Clifford Street - the photo Cardiarms found on Leodis.Just testing to see if picture downloads are still working. And they are!     The first thing that hits me is how clean this street looks. But then it was the same in Hunslet when i was a kid so called slum housing but the people who lived there were proud even sweeping the pavement outside of there own doors.Not like some of the modern pig stys we see today.    

[Cardiarms]

Less packaging and what could be put on the fire was burned.

[chameleon]

Cardiarms wrote: Less packaging and what could be put on the fire was burned. Then came the Environmental Protection Acts and burning was out.....

[tilly]

Cardiarms wrote: Less packaging and what could be put on the fire was burned. Thats fine but it still does account for all the sweet wrappers or chewing gum all over the place and yes we had sweets and chewing gum.I walk through Pudsey some days and its like a tip a lot of the school children at dinner time buy whatever they eat and whatever is left is thrown on the pavement.I may have been brought up in a so called slum area but i would never have thrown any thing on the floor nor would any of my urchin friends.Sign of the times me thinks.

[raveydavey]

Cardiarms wrote: IIRC these terraces, particularly the lower ones suffered from bad damp and flooding of the cellars, being in the bottom of the valley. Also I think upto the line of Cavendish Street is also at risk of flooding in the event of a big flood. Indeed - weren't we told last year (or was it the year before?) that during one particularly rainy period that the River Aire was "within inches" of flooding that section of Kirkstall Road?Funny then that they are looking to build a residential "village" on the former site of Yorkshire Chemicals which is betwixt the river and Kirkstall Road...

[tilly]

raveydavey wrote: Cardiarms wrote: IIRC these terraces, particularly the lower ones suffered from bad damp and flooding of the cellars, being in the bottom of the valley. Also I think upto the line of Cavendish Street is also at risk of flooding in the event of a big flood. Indeed - weren't we told last year (or was it the year before?) that during one particularly rainy period that the River Aire was "within inches" of flooding that section of Kirkstall Road?Funny then that they are looking to build a residential "village" on the former site of Yorkshire Chemicals which is betwixt the river and Kirkstall Road... If my memory serves me right there is a cast iron plaque on one of the buildings on that block with a flood hight mark on it.Dont know the date on it but its shows a level of about two or three foot above the pavement.Thats if the building has not been pulled down.    

[Cardiarms]

It's still there(and on my list now photo are working again). 1888 i think, may be wrong.

[tilly]

Cardiarms wrote: It's still there(and on my list now photo are working again). 1888 i think, may be wrong. Thanks for that Cardiarms i have not seen it since the sixtys i must still have some brain cells left.L.O.L

[Si]

tilly wrote: Si wrote: Clifford Street - the photo Cardiarms found on Leodis.Just testing to see if picture downloads are still working. And they are!     The first thing that hits me is how clean this street looks. But then it was the same in Hunslet when i was a kid so called slum housing but the people who lived there were proud even sweeping the pavement outside of there own doors.Not like some of the modern pig stys we see today.     I know it's obvious, but what always strikes me when looking at old street photos on Leodis, is the lack of traffic and parked vehicles. Another reason everywhere looks so tidy. I have an aerial photo looking straight down of the whole of Lower Wortley taken by the RAF in 1947ish, and you can count the number of cars on one hand. There are more trams and trains.

[chameleon]

Si wrote: tilly wrote: Si wrote: Clifford Street - the photo Cardiarms found on Leodis.Just testing to see if picture downloads are still working. And they are!     The first thing that hits me is how clean this street looks. But then it was the same in Hunslet when i was a kid so called slum housing but the people who lived there were proud even sweeping the pavement outside of there own doors.Not like some of the modern pig stys we see today.     I know it's obvious, but what always strikes me when looking at old street photos on Leodis, is the lack of traffic and parked vehicles. Another reason everywhere looks so tidy. I have an aerial photo looking straight down of the whole of Lower Wortley taken by the RAF in 1947ish, and you can count the number of cars on one hand. There are more trams and trains. Yup, 'Mr Hudson' had the only car (and telephone) in our street when I was growing up.