Work going on for the Dortmund Square tree.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 02 Jul, 2013 9:28 am

tilly wrote: Just a thought the plane trees I have seen in France grow very tall with a girth of about three feet.This could cause a problem in about thirty years time but then when has the council thought that far ahead. In 30 years they'll be chopping the tree down as part of the preliminary works for the follybus...

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Tue 02 Jul, 2013 10:18 am

Croggy1 wrote: BarFly wrote: Does that mean that the 6 trees to be planted will constitute a shrubbery? Ni!!! But I thought that.....We are now... no longer the Knights Who Say 'Ni'. We are now the Knights Who Say 'Ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky-pikang-zoop-boing-goodem-zu-owly-zhiv'.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Tue 02 Jul, 2013 1:41 pm

raveydavey wrote: tilly wrote: Just a thought the plane trees I have seen in France grow very tall with a girth of about three feet.This could cause a problem in about thirty years time but then when has the council thought that far ahead. In 30 years they'll be chopping the tree down as part of the preliminary works for the follybus... That will make the tree a follybush. Sorry for that!

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Thu 04 Jul, 2013 10:13 am

Rewind 32 years

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Thu 04 Jul, 2013 1:57 pm

Jogon wrote: Rewind 32 years Good pic - where's it from?

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 05 Jul, 2013 9:42 am

I'm guessing at about the headrow corner entrance to Vallances as was.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 05 Jul, 2013 10:16 am

Yes that would be the doors into St Johns Center today.We used to bluff our way onto that building sight when St Johns was going up. I can't remember the main contractor now, but in the 80's all the building firms had their own colours like a football strip. They had their cranes, cabins and hoardings painted out in their colours. Laings was Juniper green and yellow, Sheperds Orange, Bovis white and blue e.t.c.This particular firm doing St Johns was red and white, which I seem to recall Rush & Thompkins using at the time. They also built the Schofields center.We used to bluff our way on for no other reason than to see if we could do it. That would be on a Friday afternoon. We'd regularly knock North Street building college on Friday afternoons. Most of the Class I was in went in either Chaplins, or The BierKeller at dinner time. Young lads after a few beers are of course going to stay in the pub. So after a good session we'd either go down to the Lloyds Arms to build up more courage before going in Babs for a tattoo, or find some other kind of mischief to get up to around town. So mooching round a building site was as good a thing to do as anything. I'd just knock on the site foreman's office and tell him we were doing a project at building college to look at different aspects of building construction, formwork and shuttering e.t.c, and could we have a look around.Yes no bother at all lads glad to help.So off went a group of drunken lads, no helmets, boots or anything wandering around the building site. And that's how it was in those days, no one was bothered like today

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Fri 05 Jul, 2013 2:35 pm

Jogon wrote: I'm guessing at about the headrow corner entrance to Vallances as was. Sorry, meant where did it come from rather than what position was it taken from. Are there more like it? There are not many colour photos from thisperiod.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 05 Jul, 2013 3:41 pm

1982.From Leodishttp://tinyurl.com/p2buudy

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 06 Jul, 2013 2:31 pm

Talking of trees. There are a few trees on Albion Place and when I was on that earlier today I noticed one tree around half way between Lands Lane and Albion Street looked dead (and looked as if it might have been dead for some time). A tree on Albion Street close to the junction with Briggate was clearly struggling and looked as if it could be dying. I wonder if the responsibility for looking after trees in the centre of Leeds is a council or commercial one and has there been any neglect in checking the condition of the trees?