Hygenic Laundry 1940's/50's

[Jools]

Hi Chris, Ian and CardiarmsThanks for your replies, quite a few families worked together at the Hygenic think it was the done thing when families were still close knit. I don't know why the photos were taken whether it was to celebrate anything in particular, I'm intrigued why the old lady is dressed different pehaps she ran the laundry or was retiring.Jools

[dogduke]

stutterdog wrote: Chrism wrote: Hygenic Laundry - Cecil Road LS12 (Back of Armley Park School)Moorfield Laundry - Edinburgh Grove LS12 (Just off Town Street, top end)Most of my family (mam & dad, grans, uncles & aunts), including me, worked at the Hygenic at one time. Sadly though nearly all are gone to the great washouse in the sky. It was the mid 70's when I worked there. Wonder what the Tetley's pubs called in the background? Somewhere in Armley town st?     Is the Tetley signage more in keeping wth off licence advertising ?Many Tetley pubs had wall signage 'one of tetleys houses'

[BLAKEY]

[quotenick="dogdukeIs the Tetley signage more in keeping wth off licence advertising ?Many Tetley pubs had wall signage 'one of tetleys houses' I did just think exactly the same dogduke - it actually looks more like the back of a large house or shop than a pub ??

[BIG N]

Not able to help in identifying anyone in the picture I'm afraid but it is a very interesting photo non the less. In helping to identify the location look at the house on the left, how many terraces in that area where proper three story like that - as opposed to two story with attics, perhaps that is a shop on the corner of Cecil Street itself, if so that could well be Eyres mill chimney in the background which would be on Stanningly Rd.

[Cardiarms]

Hygenic Laundryhttp://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIde ... AY=FULLThe houses of the Cecils and Salisbury's are you standard late victorian terraces, the ones in the pic look earlier.

[Jools]

Hi guysThanks for your replies, I've had a look at the pic on Leodis, one day when I get round to it I have a list of streets where my Mum lived and jobs my Mum did in the 1940's and 50's which aren't on Leodis but I think I'll give you guys a breathing space first.I think my Gran Olive went to work after Granddad Walter Lyon died in 1948 and there was nobody to run the bookshop in Wortley Lane so she moved the family back to Elsworth Terrace to live with her Mum Annie (nee Boddy/Leng) Conway and Annie's hubby Jim and then had to go to work to keep the family going. I doubt anyone will know anyone on the photos now as they will all have passed away many years ago.Jools

[Leeds-lad]

I used to go to Armley Park school and was a friend of Robert Czech,he lived in the Hopes which were between the School and Armley Park.The lady at the back with the spectacles on certainly looks like his mother and I would guess that if she were alive now and she could well be,then her age would be round about 75 years old.

[Chrism]

Bloomin' 'eck LL. We used to live over the street from the Czechs, it was Hope Grove. We lived at 14 so theirs would have been 11 or 13. I used to laik footy with Robert in the street. I'll ask me mam to have a look when I next see her, she worked at the Hygenic so she might have an idea.    

[Si]

This photo from Leodis was taken in 1964 from the top of Westerly Croft, and shows Armley Park School, with the Hopes behind. Cecil Road runs across the front. The sign in Cardiarms pic was on the corner, bottom left. I think the laundry is just out of shot to the right.

[Si]

Here's another Leodis view of the Hygienic Laundry sign at the corner of Cecil Road.