Leeds on screen

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Sat 02 Jun, 2012 7:25 pm

Jogon wrote: No caronthat would risk the others being 'outshone' He still looks good now. Lucky Mrs J

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Tue 05 Jun, 2012 9:36 pm

Just watched this programme on BBC4.....Timeshift Series 11, The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire How the tram liberated overcrowded cities and ushered in the age of the commuter. (R)There are at least three (very) fleeting glimpses of Leeds trams as follows:1. travelling along Boar Lane towards the junction with Briggate - Corn Exchange in the distance2. top end of Princes Avenue travelling towards Oakwood3. Lowfields Road on the day of a football match. The bank at the back of the 'popular side' at Leeds United can be clearly seenOn IPlayer for another seven days, but the bulk of the programme concentrates on cities other than Leeds. Tram enthusiasts should be interested though.Just realised that I do not know whether the programme was a repeat. If it was, it may have been covered on here previously. If it has, apologies.Edit - (R) for repeat. Can't see wood for trees!

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Tue 05 Jun, 2012 9:51 pm

salt 'n pepper wrote: Just watched this programme on BBC4.....Timeshift Series 11, The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire How the tram liberated overcrowded cities and ushered in the age of the commuter. (R)There are at least three (very) fleeting glimpses of Leeds trams as follows:1. travelling along Boar Lane towards the junction with Briggate - Corn Exchange in the distance2. top end of Princes Avenue travelling towards Oakwood3. Lowfields Road on the day of a football match. The bank at the back of the 'popular side' at Leeds United can be clearly seenOn IPlayer for another seven days, but the bulk of the programme concentrates on cities other than Leeds. Tram enthusiasts should be interested though.Just realised that I do not know whether the programme was a repeat. If it was, it may have been covered on here previously. If it has, apologies.Edit - (R) for repeat. Can't see wood for trees! Forgot to mention that there is a bit of Alan Bennett thrown in for good measure.

book · Post by **book** » Tue 05 Jun, 2012 10:11 pm

A great line from Alan Bennett in tonight's programme, "Leeds is always in a rush to get to the future" or similar words to that. His reference to getting rid of the trams.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Tue 05 Jun, 2012 10:12 pm

salt 'n pepper wrote: Just watched this programme on BBC4.....Timeshift Series 11, The Golden Age of Trams: A Streetcar Named Desire How the tram liberated overcrowded cities and ushered in the age of the commuter. (R)There are at least three (very) fleeting glimpses of Leeds trams as follows:1. travelling along Boar Lane towards the junction with Briggate - Corn Exchange in the distance2. top end of Princes Avenue travelling towards Oakwood3. Lowfields Road on the day of a football match. The bank at the back of the 'popular side' at Leeds United can be clearly seenOn IPlayer for another seven days, but the bulk of the programme concentrates on cities other than Leeds. Tram enthusiasts should be interested though.Just realised that I do not know whether the programme was a repeat. If it was, it may have been covered on here previously. If it has, apologies.Edit - (R) for repeat. Can't see wood for trees! As a kid to early teenager in the earlyish 1950s to late 1950s I still recall getting trams from Swinegate (what was to be Queens Hall if not called that then) to Elland Road and the usually controlled rush after the match to get one of the many waiting trams back to Swinegate (sometimes going right inside, which was great fun as a kid).

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Thu 07 Jun, 2012 11:12 pm

Bit offbeat for 'Leeds on screen' this, but the Landrover used by Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope in the first series of 'Vera', currently being repeated on ITV3, has the number plate P392SUM.Registered in Leeds.Will it be genuinely on the car? Or is it just a made up one for the programme?

book · Post by **book** » Thu 07 Jun, 2012 11:30 pm

1996 Landrover 2.5 D registered on the DVLA website

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Sun 30 Sep, 2012 10:12 pm

Just seen a trailer for the new DCI Banks series.Shots of the football pitch on Beggars Hill below the Nosters in Beeston and of Cottingley Crematorium.

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Sun 30 Sep, 2012 10:31 pm

I caught some of the recent TV adaptation of John Brain's "Room at the Top" and though it's not a pub I'm familiar with I think the pub scenes were shot in the Garden Gate.

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Sun 30 Sep, 2012 11:10 pm

Johnny39 wrote: I caught some of the recent TV adaptation of John Brain's "Room at the Top" and though it's not a pub I'm familiar with I think the pub scenes were shot in the Garden Gate. I saw episode 1 Johnny and I was trying to get my head round it.I'm very familiar with the place and whilst some of the shots looked very like,there were others I couldn't reconcile.....still,the camera angles can be deceptive and I'd be happy to stand corrected.