Looking for these streets and factories in Leeds

[Cardiarms]

The perspective on that picture is odd, but remembering the wisdom of father ted 'near is big and small is far away'.

[Si]

Cardiarms wrote: The perspective on that picture is odd, but remembering the wisdom of father ted 'near is big and small is far away'. "...no, still don't get it..."

[Brandy]

Wow! Si your on fire today mate

[Si]

Brandy wrote: Wow! Si your on fire today mate I thought I could smell something...

[Croggy2]

There is a photo of the Cable and Plastic factory here http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=10030

[cnosni]

Si wrote: Brandy wrote: Wow! Si your on fire today mate I thought I could smell something... Do you know what Si,i think that you are actually slacking off

[Jools]

Hi EveryoneA very big apology for not replying sooner, numpty here forgot to put notify me of new threads on the post, it's a good job I checked out of interest.Will check out the Leodis pics and the mention of 7 Albert Street, it's probably the guy that sold the house to Mum and Dad, they got £100 for it from Mrs Singh in 1960, I still have the letters from the solicitor with the red brown postage stamps.I'll save the photos to put into my family history word doc that I started making, I promised to do it for my cousins (it saves them a job).It was me on about the bus terminus at Pudsey with the photo of the Hagenbachs that you posted on the other thread, Mum had left me a few notes where she worked but not a lot of detail, apparently the boss of Hagenbachs was Mrs Terry that's all I know.Dad loved working for Thornes Toffee, did that factory have the figures that were on top of the building that you could see from the red bus station? When he died he left nowt, but I still have a few battered Thornes toffee tins he had kept from the late 1950s.Jools

[Si]

Hi Jools,Here's another Leodis pic of Albert Street, Stanningley, taken in 1968. Number 7 can be seen in this one too. The chap who posted a comment about living at this house also said he was born at number 2, but in 1917, and he wasn't called Singh.Is the picture of Hagenbach's the one your mam worked in, or was there another on Church Lane?As for Thorne's, someone else might know about it.Cheers,Si    

[geoffb]

Si wrote: Junction of Eastgate and Vicar Lane. H. Thorne's & Co Ltd, cocoa manufacturers, in 1945. Lady Lane is behind the factory. Before the widening of Nelson Street in the 30s, which became Eastgate, this was the site of the Black Swan Inn. The architecture of the corner building now continues down to Quarry Hill. I believe the construction was temporarily halted by the war.That's yer lot, Jools.         I dont get it is it a mirror image?

[Jools]

Hi Si and GeoffThanks for the photo. Mum worked at Hagenbachs in the 50's until she caught TB about 5 years before I was born (so I don't know if it is the right Hagenbachs unfortunately), apparently there was a big TB outbreak at that time, she was either in Killingbeck or Seacroft hospital and the ward was full, when she came out of hospital 6 months later a lot of the women in the ward who had been there when she arrived were still there when she left.Just out of interest Mum and Dad bought 7 Albert Street Stanningley Apr 1959 for £250 from Mr F A Austin. and sold it for £100 to Mrs Singh in May 1960, Mum's health never recovered due to the house being so damp so that's why the docs advised them to move to one of the new estates so they had to make a quick sale and relocated to sunny Seacroft.Jools