Leeds Lost Schools

keyholekate · Post by **keyholekate** » Thu 17 May, 2012 12:16 am

Am sure I saw that Agnes Stewart school was getting demolished today.Also I saw that major roadworks are happening down that end for 15 weeks so maybe big changes in that area.I wonder if anything is planned for St Patricks church which is looking run down and scruffy now.

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Thu 17 May, 2012 9:10 pm

keyholekate wrote: Am sure I saw that Agnes Stewart school was getting demolished today.Also I saw that major roadworks are happening down that end for 15 weeks so maybe big changes in that area.I wonder if anything is planned for St Patricks church which is looking run down and scruffy now. Agnes Stewart buildings were bought by the Pentecostal Churchand have planning permission to demolish some buildings and erect a new church and other bits.St.Pats closed some time ago and is used by the Playhouseto store props.The new church is on Torre Road next to the school.

olly · Post by **olly** » Fri 22 Jun, 2012 10:16 pm

Someone was asking about St Silas in Hunslet. I attended when I was about 4 or 5 to 7 when we left Hunslet for the paradise of Belle Isle at about 1957. We lived dead opposite St Silas on Neven St and my mates Dad, Les Todd was the caretaker.I remember the canvas beds which we had for our afternoon nap, the rough coconut mats and the yellow sulphur smog on winter mornings, the corner shop where we got our kali, malted milk and Y.Z chewing gum (with the picture of an owl on the packet) from the machine outside the shop - a penny a go and every fourth one free !!I remember when the church closed and seeing coffins being brought out, a bit scary when you're only a kid! Does anyone remember the church which stood at the end of Alf Cookes (opposite Costco at the corner of Hunslet Rd and Leathley Rd?) Alf Cookes extended over the site and in the window was a piece of stained glass from the church. I passed a while ago and noticed that the stained glass had gone. Does anyone know where? and was the church called St Stephens? Just curious.Olly

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 22 Jun, 2012 10:29 pm

Ahhh kali. That brings back memories of sticking a wet finger into the powder and then licking the powder off.

olly · Post by **olly** » Fri 22 Jun, 2012 10:57 pm

Yes - we all walked around with yellow or green forefingers and mouths to match. Don't remember my Mam telling me off for it so I suppose it was O.K. Better than coming home covered in street tar - got some real telling offs for that !!

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Sun 24 Jun, 2012 1:40 pm

I was reading yesterday that the 3 cornered park, Whingate park, was named after a Pudsey peddler who sold cakes in Armley and would rest his horse on the land on his way home. His most popular cake was thought to resemble shortbread and it was called a Charley Cake.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Tue 14 Aug, 2012 7:43 pm

Leeds Girls High School was an important part of Headingley and now makes a sorry sight as I pass by.Shame it got swallowed into the Grammar School for boys.I think it did a very special job and produced confident feisty Women.Steering well clear of politics, and applying logic, all private pupils, parents of (I'm not, and mine aren't) already paid for a full State Education, age 5 to 18. Plus extra for Bursary stuff.And then not used it. I recall the French Government meddling with their private system. This was stopped in it's tracks when the private pupils enrolled en masse for State, which could not cope. Bluff called.

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Tue 14 Aug, 2012 9:38 pm

Mouseman. Worth quite a bit!

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Tue 14 Aug, 2012 9:57 pm

I'm sure lads there said Roundhay School had mouseman furniture back in the day.ps As a kid I was intrigued by mouseman stuff and actively sought it out. Good one down the hill, by the bend at Robin Hoods Bay.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Tue 14 Aug, 2012 11:23 pm

Better pic mouseman gate, Robin Hoods Bay