Can you identify the location of this 1970 pic in Leeds

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Fri 08 Oct, 2010 2:47 pm

Cardiarms wrote: and the straight line top their left the railway embankment?The only Leeds fires station I know in a valley is kirkstall and its tower isn't that tall. I would hazard guess that Kirkstall fire station has been rebuilt in the last 40 years

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Fri 08 Oct, 2010 3:14 pm

I'm quite sure the fire station was still on Park Street in 1970.

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Fri 08 Oct, 2010 3:42 pm

Chrism wrote: I'm quite sure the fire station was still on Park Street in 1970. It maybe why this one on Kirkstall Road was builthttp://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIde ... 94749088it didn't last long though if this is correct

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Fri 08 Oct, 2010 3:57 pm

The new one was rebuilt around 1996 ish. I remember as I had just moved into Marlborough Towers at the time.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Fri 08 Oct, 2010 4:33 pm

Sorry, I've misunderstood which tower we were looking at. Got it no.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Fri 08 Oct, 2010 5:05 pm

I remember the the Kirkstall station towere being in a grey concrete tower in the corner of the site. It's been replaced by a new one but I don't think it's on the same spot. This is the view back up the hill. I reckon the pic was take somwher to right of centre.http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 9,,0,-9.46

Leeds-lad · Post by **Leeds-lad** » Fri 08 Oct, 2010 5:34 pm

I reckon that the building in the foreground of the 3rd block of flats from the right could be Simpson Solk,furniture makers that used to be on Brandon Street old Armley Rd.The building used to have a large square tower(too big to be a chimney?) with the name Simpson Solk painted on in large white letters.Just as a matter of interest is anyone able toshed light on what the structure/chimney? was.

Post by **mhoulden** » Sun 10 Oct, 2010 2:33 am

I managed to get a direct link to the photo at http://farm1.static.flickr.com/120/3032 ... e8f8_z.jpg. old-maps.co.uk now has maps after WWII so it's reasonably straightforward to get a rough idea of where this is based on the layout of the streets at the time. I think the photo was taken roughly where the marker is on this map at the. top of Hanover Avenue: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?source ... 10568&z=17. There's quite a lot of new buildings in the way, but the tower and chimney in line with the church spire look like the ones on the old Yorkshire Chemicals Site. There's an open space between Kendal Lane and the road at right angles to Hanover Ave and Hanover Square which I think is the one where the kids are standing around a bonfire. By the time of the 1981-84 map the 4 streets in the background no longer appear so they've probably been demolished.My mum used to work at the old Associated Dairies building on Kirkstall Road so I might ask if she knows anything more about developments in the area. I know slum clearances along Kirkstall Road itself were pretty brutal after looking at photos on Leodis