QUEENS HALL

[franco]

Uncut magazine had a big feature a couple of months ago about the Futurama festival in 1979. Loads of readers recollections about the appalling state of the Queens Hall. Whats more they had a fantastic picture of the entire building. I wonder where they sourced that from?

[thelizzyman]

Hi just typed in LQH and found this site.I may have a picture of the hall in 1980 or 81 when thin lizzy were playing a gig.Anybody out there got a recording of any leeds shows by lizzy would love to have a copy.

[Leodian]

In ye olden days (well it seems like that!) when trams used to run to Elland Road I recall that you could get on and off them inside Queen's Hall.Oh, and the sight of the trams queueing to take people back into Leeds after matches at Elland Road were amazing and depite huge crowds it was not long before they were all taken back.

[Leeds Hippo]

I can still smell the elephant poo when I went as a kid to see the circus - you don't forget things like that!

[gbdlufc]

try again

[gbdlufc]

i give in

[gbdlufc]

A few memories from the Queens Hall.I remember seeing Motorhead there, I think with Girls school backing them. Lemmy playing his guitar in the nose of the mock up 'bomber' going up and down - I couldn't hear for a week.It also had a little skateboard park in there sometime in the 70's. If I remember you had to climb a small staircase onto a gantry where you were faced with a half pipe about 6' across and built on an incline, at the the end was a very steep wall where you had to do a 180 turn, come back down and into a huge pipe about 12' in diameter, meanwhile whilst doing your run you had to it as many sensors/pads on the floor to score points or make a board light up?Inline skating (speedwheeling) was introduced there in about 76 by I think a Australian guy, I do have a Evening Post picture of me and a mate (RIP) stood next to the guy (but I don't know how to post images here)?My last memory was buying my first car there, it was a car auction room every Sunday or other Sunday? NVY 607P mini 850, I took the dealer back to my house and paid him £250 in 2's and 1's out of my giant whiskey bottle coppers collection     

[BLAKEY]

gbdlufc wrote: My last memory was buying my first car there, it was a car auction room every Sunday or other Sunday? NVY 607P mini 850, I took the dealer back to my house and paid him £250 in 2's and 1's out of my giant whiskey bottle coppers collection      I have a strong recollection that many of the car vendors were from the North East each time. It makes you wonder if some of the vehicles were "hot" or "dodgy" and the sellers felt safe with a buffer of a hundred miles or so. It was most enjoyable to saunter round there during the sales. Also I seem to remember that it was illegal to sell cars on the street and the Law were constantly on the watch outside in Sovereign Street. There was also a decent refreshment stall inside the building.

[STICKS]

I used to work at Sovereign Street bus depot wonder if u looked on Google Images ,if they were a group on and i was on nights u got no sleep that night i hope this helps u ,i might look right know

[amber]

STICKS wrote: I used to work at Sovereign Street bus depot wonder if u looked on Google Images ,if they were a group on and i was on nights u got no sleep that night i hope this helps u ,i might look right know Sleeping on nights? thought you all watched videos