Where was it?

Si · Post by Si » Mon 02 Apr, 2012 11:25 am

jim wrote: Wolseley Street and Butts Place no longer exist, though Wolseley Road and Butts Mount remain.Jim. Hi Jim. My great aunt May used to live on one of the Butts, but can't remember which. It seems me dad can't either, because when they were pulled down, he took the old street signs of several of them for old times' sake. They're sitting in his garage to this day.

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Mon 02 Apr, 2012 11:40 am

Thank you to all for your help and the pics. I'm going to sound like Mavis Riley cos though I think the bridge is the one, the steps are a "I don't know"...I don't remember so many steps. I found Milford Place (eventually) I was looking under Kirkstall not Burley (fool) but there are only shots of the top end Milford Place taken from Kirkstall Road. The steps (stone) I remember were at the bottom left of the street and they were built onto the wall. I don't remember there being a handrail as I used to stay as close to the wall side as I could, frightened to death I'd fall off of them and cos it was so grim I'd try not to touch the wall. I remember reaching the top of the steps and suddenly there was light and normality. I truly hated the bottom of Milford Place. I was only about 4 or 5 at the most. Strange but even now I get butterflies just looking at the pics of the steps and bridge. Such a sensitive child...lol.

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Mon 02 Apr, 2012 11:55 am

BLAKEY wrote: Caron wrote: I'm back as Milford Place isn't on Leodis and I can't get Google Earth atm.I think I remember every shop on Kirkstall road. I'm not sure of the year that the buildings were demolished Caron, but do you remember the Embassy Cinema - it was somewhere between the Viaduct and Haddon Place an initially became a suburban Woolworths after the "flicks" finished. Hi Blakey. I remember Woolworths on Kirkstall road. My nana used to live on Elsham Terrace and mam would go with her and my auntie (think my auntie lived int Haddons?) to a bingo hall up near the Haddons. Suppose it was originally a picture house but not sure? There was a place that made/fixed (or whatever) clocks up one of the streets. think it was Potts? My step dads brother owned the garage up Burley Rd (Cromacks). From Wolseley Street we moved to Argie Avenue so I know the areas well but I'm not so hot on street names.

Si · Post by Si » Mon 02 Apr, 2012 12:05 pm

Si wrote: And the steps?Picture by Terry Cryer via Leodis. Hi Caron. The steps are the ones on the other side of the bridge leading up to Canal Road. Terry Cryer took a lot of pictures in this area and always captured a kind of surreal brooding menace, similar to the feelings described in your posts of the place!

Si · Post by Si » Mon 02 Apr, 2012 12:20 pm

Caron wrote: From Wolseley Street we moved to Argie Avenue so I know the areas well but I'm not so hot on street names. Leodis pic of Wolseley Street, 1969.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Mon 02 Apr, 2012 12:24 pm

Caron wrote: Hi Blakey. I remember Woolworths on Kirkstall road. My nana used to live on Elsham Terrace and mam would go with her and my auntie (think my auntie lived int Haddons?) to a bingo hall up near the Haddons. Suppose it was originally a picture house but not sure? There was a place that made/fixed (or whatever) clocks up one of the streets. think it was Potts? Yes Caron Potts Clocks it was indeed, and the bingo hall was, as you say, the Haddon Hall Cinema.Incidentally (way off topic briefly) I once spent a holiday in the mid 1960s on Brownsea island at Poole - I had a relation who worked for the John Lewis stores and they bought the mansion on the island as a holiday hotel for staff - it was magic but you had to leave Poole at about 5.30pm on the last trip of the very little ferry boat to the Island - or swim it !!

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Mon 02 Apr, 2012 1:44 pm

Si wrote: Caron wrote: From Wolseley Street we moved to Argie Avenue so I know the areas well but I'm not so hot on street names. Leodis pic of [insert]Uncle Staveley [continue]on Wolseley Street, 1969.

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Mon 02 Apr, 2012 1:48 pm

Si wrote: Caron wrote: From Wolseley Street we moved to Argie Avenue so I know the areas well but I'm not so hot on street names. Leodis pic of Wolseley Street, 1969. Thanks! It truly looks bleak in the pic but I don't remember it looking so bad...The washing line coiled around the wall in the pic brings back a memory best forgotten...There was always a line coiled there and one day my older sis and her mates decided to play cowboys and indians, me being the only indian. They un coiled the washing line and started running around me which was ok until the line ended up around my neck and I passed out. Mi mam went bonkers and I had a lovely burn mark around my neck for a few days. Oh..the good old days (?). When you add up the amount of houses that were demolished and look at the area now, there is no way the new builds housed the same amount of folk (surely?). No wonder there was/is a housing shortage.

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Mon 02 Apr, 2012 1:58 pm

Brownsea island is lovely and I should go over more often than I do but it's typical that when you live somewhere you don't make the most of what's on your doorstep and in summer you can't move for the holiday makers (says she who dunt belong here!). I had an elderly friend who knew folk who either bought or managed the place on the island but their name escapes me. I think they ended up buying a place in old Poole (expensive area).Poole is a lovely place. Just a shame it's not full of Yorkshire folk but....compared to the 70's when my mam and dad moved down here (owing to dads job), there are more and more of us "outsiders" creeping into the place. Wey Hey, we shall overcome.lol.

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Mon 02 Apr, 2012 4:57 pm

Brownsea Island? Wasn't that the place where Baden Powell started the Scout movement or am I getting my islands mixed up?