Does anyone remember when Sweet Street looked like this? (Crytal Palace pub)

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Fri 06 Jan, 2012 2:21 pm

Meadow Road/Victoria Road was almost a perfect semi circle round the compound back then as it is round Bewleys now. Being anti clockwise it is a left handed bend which is then followed by a right hander as Victoria Road straightens out to head to the bridge and Neville St. A somewhat flattened 'S' shape. Yes the surrounding landcaping has changed and yes there is a major change with the bus lane and access to Bewleys but I stand by my view that the main carriageway is pretty much to the inch the same layout some 13 years later

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 07 Jan, 2012 6:16 pm

Sweet Street was home to the council's refuse wagons and street cleaners before the site was sold for redevelopment.More here: http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/1484110(Isn't Google great?)There were other council offices there too - possibly the school dinners were provided from there at one time (wasn't the council owned company that made them called Crown Point Foods?)Cricket Wicket did indeed become the LA Bowl. Inbetween it was a multi-activity centre with bowling, laserquest and amusements, etc.And although I remember Halford being built (replacing the store on Vicar Lane, now part of VQ), the adjacent motor dealers (Fletchers, now closed and demolished) had been there for as long as I could remember - I think the Halfords store was just added at the side.

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Sat 07 Jan, 2012 8:14 pm

great link. you reckon that's the exact same before and after view?also what was Cricket Wicket's?

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 07 Jan, 2012 8:34 pm

pablo leeds wrote: great link. you reckon that's the exact same before and after view?also what was Cricket Wicket's? Cricket Wicket was an indoor cricket centre. They also had a couple of 5 a side football leagues - we used to play in one on a Sunday evening.The building was exactly the one that later became LA Bowl - inside it was laid out as sports courts, with netting inbetween them. Some were just like traditional cricket practice nets, others big enough for proper games / 5-a-side football.

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Sat 07 Jan, 2012 8:54 pm

raveydavey wrote: Sweet Street was home to the council's refuse wagons and street cleaners before the site was sold for redevelopment.More here: http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/1484110(Isn't Google great?)There were other council offices there too - possibly the school dinners were provided from there at one time (wasn't the council owned company that made them called Crown Point Foods?)Cricket Wicket did indeed become the LA Bowl. Inbetween it was a multi-activity centre with bowling, laserquest and amusements, etc.And although I remember Halford being built (replacing the store on Vicar Lane, now part of VQ), the adjacent motor dealers (Fletchers, now closed and demolished) had been there for as long as I could remember - I think the Halfords store was just added at the side. Dodgy image/info time. As proved in the Leodis images the Council had long gone by 2001 Having been in the Sweet Street Compound a couple of times myself, before the millenium, I can say in all honesty I don't remember it looking like the before image. Where is the chimney in the background and a site in Middleton that is currently or at least not too long ago occupied by LCC looks more likely for that. Also I'm pretty certain that refuse services or variations on were not based at Sweet Street. Leisure Services and/or a variation on Highways were the last occupants.

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Sat 07 Jan, 2012 9:53 pm

yep probably totally different place.when you speak of the "compound" was it exactly where city walk is now?

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Sat 07 Jan, 2012 10:17 pm

pablo leeds wrote: yep probably totally different place.when you speak of the "compound" was it exactly where city walk is now? Its hard to tell roughly what footprint it occupied. I used to live in Beeston and on occasional walks home (after missing last bus) I would walk out of Leeds up Victoria Road. On only one occasion did I venture right down manor road to navigate the west side of the compound emerging on Sweet Street before passing back in front of Halfords and Fletchers and then up by the motorway slip onto Holbeck Moor. This means that I definitely associated the Meadow Road bend as being the shorter at 400+ yards to cover about 100 as the crow flies. That walk would pretty much be round the outside of the current bus lane. Bewleys as is was almost entirely within the compound and I suspect a road from Manor Road to Sweet Street following a straight line along St Barnabas Road http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=manor+r ... 17&vpsrc=6 was roughly the Western End if it wasn't St Barnabas Rd at the time. However most of my transit through the area was at that time and still is on a bus so off the bus route is much less familiar

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 07 Jan, 2012 10:38 pm

tyke bhoy wrote: raveydavey wrote: Sweet Street was home to the council's refuse wagons and street cleaners before the site was sold for redevelopment.More here: http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/1484110(Isn't Google great?)There were other council offices there too - possibly the school dinners were provided from there at one time (wasn't the council owned company that made them called Crown Point Foods?)Cricket Wicket did indeed become the LA Bowl. Inbetween it was a multi-activity centre with bowling, laserquest and amusements, etc.And although I remember Halford being built (replacing the store on Vicar Lane, now part of VQ), the adjacent motor dealers (Fletchers, now closed and demolished) had been there for as long as I could remember - I think the Halfords store was just added at the side. Dodgy image/info time. As proved in the Leodis images the Council had long gone by 2001 Having been in the Sweet Street Compound a couple of times myself, before the millenium, I can say in all honesty I don't remember it looking like the before image. Where is the chimney in the background and a site in Middleton that is currently or at least not too long ago occupied by LCC looks more likely for that. Also I'm pretty certain that refuse services or variations on were not based at Sweet Street. Leisure Services and/or a variation on Highways were the last occupants. I don't doubt what you say tyke bhoy, but I can definately remember seeing the bin wagons parked up on there at some point - although I couldn't put a date on it!

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Sat 07 Jan, 2012 10:58 pm

Ravey it was a council compound it may have even been a motorpool (repair centre) so its quite possible refuse lorries were parked there. I just never remember it being refuse services and surely the majority of refuse lorries were parke up at or near refuse sites which Sweet Street was never despite the original image on the thread

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 12:13 am

i think it was St Barnabas Road in 1910