The old curiousity shop guess where!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sat 28 Apr, 2012 9:10 pm

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Emily, and she had a shop, a rather unusual shop!Perhaps once inside a moustachioed fez-wearing shopkeeper might invite you through a magic door!So where in Leeds can you find this colourful little curiosity shop?

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Sat 28 Apr, 2012 9:33 pm

Phill, I'll save you a job and ban myself from this one!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sat 28 Apr, 2012 9:39 pm

Tasa wrote: Phill, I'll save you a job and ban myself from this one! Yeah I know you've seen these pop up on my flickr over the years. I'm never sure how easy or hard they'll be myself

jim · Post by **jim** » Sat 28 Apr, 2012 10:21 pm

Is this the ex record and book shop off Midland Road, Hyde Park? (Back Kensington Terrace perhaps) I haven't been there for some years, but the shops seem familiar.

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Sat 28 Apr, 2012 10:28 pm

jim wrote: Is this the ex record and book shop off Midland Road, Hyde Park? (Back Kensington Terrace perhaps) I haven't been there for some years, but the shops seem familiar. Hey how about that Jim, you've surprised me there.Well done, It's very much out of the way and hid down a back street. As far as I know the place is still listed as Desperate Dan records.Here it is on street viewhttp://g.co/maps/8k3pbAll these interesting and curious places seem to be around the Leeds 6, Headingley/Hyde Park student land areas.

jim · Post by **jim** » Sat 28 Apr, 2012 10:57 pm

I've always been an inveterate searcher for second hand record and book shops Phill, and I lived on Ash Grove for five years in the 1980s. I suppose the two might have been connected! Don't remember the graffiti though.

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Sat 28 Apr, 2012 11:06 pm

jim wrote: I've always been an inveterate searcher for second hand record and book shops Phill, and I lived on Ash Grove for five years in the 1980s. I suppose the two might have been connected! Don't remember the graffiti though. Jim, you will probably remember it as Bookside - I think I spent half the 1980s browsing in there as I lived at Hyde Park at the time! It was a damp place and they didn't look after the books very well, often keeping them in cardboard boxes on the floor, but I found some absolute gems in there!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Sat 28 Apr, 2012 11:09 pm

I used to travel by national express (ha ha) a lot back then. Bought loads of reading material from there. All sorts of stuff. Still have some of it.

book · Post by **book** » Sat 28 Apr, 2012 11:15 pm

I must have passed it a thousand times walking from the paprika coffee bar at Hyde Park to Burley but can't remember it.

jim · Post by **jim** » Sun 29 Apr, 2012 12:16 am

Tasa wrote: [Jim, you will probably remember it as Bookside Hi Tasa. Even with the reminder I can't remember the name - though I do recall the Desperate Dan name now that Phill reminds me of it. Next question - what were the names of the two SH book shops just west of the Hyde Park corner, on the north side? The first one in particular was a treasure trove of a place for me, even with its totally rabbit-warren configuration and seriously unsafe upper floor.