The LICS on Albion Street in a 1956 photo in Leodis.

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Mon 01 Apr, 2013 6:38 pm

majorhoundii wrote: I seem to remember the windows of the LICS store curved inwards from the top. I also remember those distinctive curved display windows Major. I don't recall seeing similar concave plate glass windows anywhere else. Even as a youngster (catapult in pocket!!) I thought about the cost of replacing one if it got broken. The only reason I can think of for installing such expensive curved windows is that you didn't get a reflection as you do with a flat plate glass window so it looked as though there was nothing between you and the goods on display. I think it worked as long as they were kept clean. A disadvantage , to my mind, was that the inward curve of the glass ( a few feet ) took up a lot of space , so that the window display was more distant. Also the novel design of the windows tended to distract me from the goods displayed.

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Mon 01 Apr, 2013 6:53 pm

Leodian wrote: "...... I recall the large LICS premises on the right (from that view but out of view in the photo) but I cannot recall a LICS on the left. As a child in the mid 1950s I use to go with my mum to collect the divi at the LICS on the right. It's probably just my poor memory so I wonder if anyone recalls there being a LICS on the left of Albion Street (in that view) in at least 1956.This is the link to the Leodis photo:- http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL Hi Leodian, Nothing wrong with your memory! The LICS store was on the right of the street. I too remember going in with my mum to collect "Divi" from the Coop bank which was in the department store. I don't remember anything else about the store, although I am sure we must have bought things there, except for the unusual display windows commented on by Major Hound. I used to know our Coop membership number off by heart aged 8 or 9, you quoted it every time you bought anything in a Coop shop. Can't remember it now though!!

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Mon 01 Apr, 2013 8:19 pm

At last - the answer to my thread about the Peoples Theatre of the Leeds Co-op.The information was probably not available when I posted it.dogdukeUserLocation:LS9Joined on:03-Jan-2008 11:17:19Posted:1042 posts # Posted on: 17-Feb-2010 01:19:07. Any memories of The Peoples'Theatre ?If I remembercorrectly it was the bottom end of AlbionStreet,left hand side going up from Boar Lane.Could have belonged to the Co-op.seem to remember going to see a pantomine therein the fifties. uncle mickUserLocation:Calverley,But Middelton and Hunslet born and bredJoined on:14-Jan-2009 11:13:15Posted:740 posts # Posted on: 17-Feb-2010 09:44:21. I've had a quick look at the Leeds phone books in the 1950's.Nothing listed under People's Theatre Michael----------------------------------------------------------------------------Searching for this thread revealed :-http://mappingleedscoop.wordpress.com/“Many others remain but are much harder to identify because of change of use, structural alterations, etc. Perhaps you know and remember some of them. Many have been demolished, for example the whole complex in Marshall Street or the People`s Hall in Albion Street.”The elusive People's Theatre was the People's Hall !

johnnyg · Post by **johnnyg** » Mon 01 Apr, 2013 10:51 pm

Leodis carries a shot of the People's Hall at:http://www.leodis.net/GuidedTour.aspx?ORDER=1&ID=12

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Tue 02 Apr, 2013 12:51 am

After my uncle returned from fighting in Burma he couldn't stand being in enclosed places and took a job with the Coop as a milkman. I seem to think the depot was in Armley (?) but in the 70's he used the depot at Horsforth. If my memory is correct and the depot was in Armley, does anyone know exactly where it was please? Cheers!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Tue 02 Apr, 2013 8:05 am

The first caption to this Leodis picture may give a clue:http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Tue 02 Apr, 2013 9:59 am

Cheers Cardiarms. When he first started delivering milk he had a horse and cart. One christmas his customers gave him a few "tipples" and in a drunken state the horse took him back to the depot. Clever horse!

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Tue 02 Apr, 2013 1:23 pm

Caron wrote: After my uncle returned from fighting in Burma he couldn't stand being in enclosed places and took a job with the Coop as a milkman. I seem to think the depot was in Armley (?) but in the 70's he used the depot at Horsforth. If my memory is correct and the depot was in Armley, does anyone know exactly where it was please? Cheers! Hi Caron I think the depot would be the one at Copley Hill It was right at the bottom of Whitehall Road just on the left after the round about. That would be the round about that takes you to Domestic Street below were Wineright used to be.

Caron2 · Post by **Caron2** » Tue 02 Apr, 2013 3:14 pm

Cheers tilly

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Tue 02 Apr, 2013 8:54 pm

Tasa wrote: It was the Co-op Food Hall on the left (in the Leodis view) - I remember it very well in the 1960s. Our divi number was 183646 (my mother always said it as 18-36-46). We lived in Ilkley from 1939 to 1959 and used the three department store there - the centre shop was "Grocery" flanked by "Drapery" and "Butchery."Our divi number was 148060 - pronounced by my Mum as "fourteen eighty sixty." In my infancy I laboured under the impression that LICS was pronounced "Liesuss."