apparently it Lewis's

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Great photos, especially the Burtons ones, I have the idea that my mother used to work at Burtons but I think that was my grandmother, my mother used to work at a tailoring factory place called Bainbridges which I think is the building known to all as Jacobs Well now.

I think everyone in Leeds probably would have known someone who worked at Burtons in the 1940s and 50s as it was the largest clothing factory in the world at that time.

Oh, and the first comment that says that those photos from the 1950s are like Victorian images gets a ban ok ?

Signed

Modorator in disguise born in 1956 and known to play cricket on the streets of Burley just like those kids in those photos.

Yeah, and you were a rubbish batsman; fell for the leg-trap every time.

When the season changed from cricket to rugby (via whip-and-top and hopscotch) me and a lad called Chris whose father was the local window cleaner, invented the run-around from the scrum base (on Thornville Road), honed it to perfection, only to have it pinched by Lewis Jones and Colin Evans up t'road who claimed it as their own. They later incorporated Ken Thornett into the move when we threatened 'em with a patent violation.

Nah....my mate Tim and I perfected the run-around and "hanging pass" in Becketts Park. Problem was we didn't have a Kenny Thornett...(or anyone one else) to take it at full belt, which meant that so well practiced pass always ended up on the grass. Never seemed to matter as we had no opposition either so Rosenberg always scored in the corner!!

My old man worked at Burtons from leaving school at 15 in 1957 right through to his retirement in 2007. He was probably the last person they'll ever give a 50-year long service award to, given their insistence now on offering fixed term contracts to a lot of new staff.

He started as an apprentice in tailoring when they still made clothes at the Hudson Road side, shifting onto the transport and warehousing side when production ceased (some time in the 1970s).

When I was still at school, my mother also worked evenings on that site in the credit control side. Have vivid memories of walking with my Dad in the dusk through the site to go collect her, with bats swooping in and out of the warehouses.

It's also the site of my first two temporary jobs after leaving school, working for my Dad. Not an experience I think I could repeat now without resorting to violence.

No opposition? Luxury!

There were five lampposts between where I lived (in Thornville Grove) and my Grandma's (in Harold Grove) and during my numerous journeys twixt the two homes every single one of those lampposts either bought an outrageous dummy or succumbed to my version of Wilf Rosenberg's body swerve.

I'm pretty sure now that it was the tailoring mill at Jacobs Well where my mother was a machinist from '45 to '56-ish along with thousands of other women - it never happened to her but she had numorous tales of girls who had to be cut from their sewing machines and taken to the LGI because they got their fingers too close to the business end of the big industrial sewing machines and ended up with the needle right through their finger ends - that was like a horror story to send you to bed with when I was a kid

My gran lost a finger just round the corner from where my Dad worked. She was at the old Crockatts (now Johnsons) dry cleaning factory on Stoney Rock Lane and trapped it in a clothes press.

Had it amputated and was back at work a couple of weeks later. Not a thought of legal action, no phone calls or emails from ambulance chasing solicitors trying to get her compensation.

My late mother worked there in the early 60`s I think.

Then for somebody called Mr Brian in a sweat shop under the Dark Arches

She said you were not a real machinist until you had sown a finger



She backed the winner of the Grand National one year called Rag Trade along with thousands of other machinists. Good job for the bookies they all only had a shilling each way.

Was it not The Ostlers Arms - or am I making that up?

I don't know and I haven't a clue why it was always a favourite port of call especially on the last working day before christmas and all of the office typing pools in central Leeds seemed to gather there to get well and truly hammered at dinnertime through to teatime



The days when you would stand in a pub rammed in like a lock-out all-ticket south stand at Headingley are long gone and you'd all be arrested by Operation Yewtree detectives if you carried on like that these days

I remember When Fred Pickup first returned from OZ in the early 70s I saw him working behind the bar in the Ostler's.

Big fire at the Rising Pub on Kirkstall Road this morning. More than half a dozen fire engines in attendance. It stopped being a pub a few years back and is now a second hand furniture store, but the building itself is listed. The top two floors looked pretty well done for, so I wonder if this will be the end of it. www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... e=1&ref=nf

Big fire at the Rising Pub on Kirkstall Road this morning. More than half a dozen fire engines in attendance. It stopped being a pub a few years back and is now a second hand furniture store, but the building itself is listed. The top two floors looked pretty well done for, so I wonder if this will be the end of it. www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... e=1&ref=nf

some stunning photos on here www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 9/mitchell

some stunning photos on here www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 9/mitchell

Closed Pubs ... take a look at this list and I'll bet there's some you didn't know had gone ... www.closedpubs.co.uk/yorkshire/leeds.html

Closed Pubs ... take a look at this list and I'll bet there's some you didn't know had gone ... www.closedpubs.co.uk/yorkshire/leeds.html

Quote ="El Barbudo"Closed Pubs ... take a look at this list and I'll bet there's some you didn't know had gone ... www.closedpubs.co.uk/yorkshire/leeds.html'" For me that is a shock,as a Leeds lad who has not lived in the string of beads for twenty years many of those pubs bring back happy memories. And one or two unhappy memories, apart from visiting headingley if I have a drink in Leeds it's always the white locks. I hope and presume that this watering hole will never close. Fortunately thanks to Sam smiths there is still some decent pubs in my part of the world.

Quote ="El Barbudo"Closed Pubs ... take a look at this list and I'll bet there's some you didn't know had gone ... www.closedpubs.co.uk/yorkshire/leeds.html'" For me that is a shock,as a Leeds lad who has not lived in the string of beads for twenty years many of those pubs bring back happy memories. And one or two unhappy memories, apart from visiting headingley if I have a drink in Leeds it's always the white locks. I hope and presume that this watering hole will never close. Fortunately thanks to Sam smiths there is still some decent pubs in my part of the world.

Fred Pickup, one of the best leg tacklers I have seen, he used to tackle just above ankle height .
I may be wrong but if memory serves me well he was South African.

Great pic of Granary Wharf https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Great pic of Granary Wharf https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Great photo. I was always fascinated by that tracked crane when i was a child. Shame they got rid of it and couldn't have worked it into the redevelopment down there

You are wrong Leeds signed him from school.He was a kirkstall road lad

Apologies you are correct , I got him mixed up with Lou Neuman who was the supreme leg tackler, and South African .
About that time several top players were brought over from South African rugby union, van vollenhoven was probably the most famous.
Both trinity and Wigan with saints seemed to be the magnet for most of the top players . We had a winger called wilf Rosenberg . Not certain of his skills but I think he played a fair number of games.