Majestic, how could I forget, my dad used to come home complaining every night if they'd had a matinee through the week because thats all he'd ever hear through the walls of the office all afternoon - its why he never went to see The Sound of Music

went to the opening of the p.o building when my old man worked there

View to the West, Quarry Hill Flats, summer 1977



Tivoli Cinema, Sissons Lane, summer 1976



Raine Bros Ltd, plumbers' merchants, Crown Street, spring 1974

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Jeez, they are quality pictures for the time!

The clue is in the first two numbers of the year - "19" for instance.

Queen Victoria had been dead for 75 years in 1976 you know





PS - that photo of Raines at the bottom, is it still a Pizza Express now ? 'Twas originally the White Cloth Hall wasn't it, one of the oldest buildings in Leeds City Centre.

Quote ="JerryChicken" PS - that photo of Raines at the bottom, is it still a Pizza Express now ? 'Twas originally the White Cloth Hall wasn't it, one of the oldest buildings in Leeds City Centre.'" don't get down there a lot, but according to street view, yes it is https://www.google.co.uk/maps/preview#! ... 5402&fid=5

Quote ="JerryChicken" PS - that photo of Raines at the bottom, is it still a Pizza Express now ? 'Twas originally the White Cloth Hall wasn't it, one of the oldest buildings in Leeds City Centre.'" don't get down there a lot, but according to street view, yes it is https://www.google.co.uk/maps/preview#! ... 5402&fid=5

White Cloth Hall not because the building was white (it wasn't) but because the cloth was white - as opposed to coloured cloth which was cheaper and often reconstituted, Leeds had a Coloured Cloth Hall too I believe - all of this rubbish was learned by sitting next to a university history lecturer during our doms sessions every Friday night in the Merry Monk

Elland Road circa 1962. Before the M621 went through the squiggly beck (right hand side,)

Nice shot of the greyhound track top left, which New Hunslet played on a decade after that photo.

my dad used to tell me that they had american football style posts there,is that correct?

Yes they did have American football style posts.
I used to help out by either selling programmes, do scoreboard or being a ball boy (all with my Leeds shirt underneath the Hunslet tracksuit)

was the home score ever altered from zero?

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The old cop and the scratching shed - my dad used to stand on the south east corner - it was quite steep IIRC

Quote ="flipper" https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater'" That picture is completely unfathomable to anyone who has grown up in Leeds in the years since they built the inner ring road. How the hell did you old timers get to the M62, to Showcase, to the McDonalds near Elland Road? And what on earth is that crazy loon with the white gloves doing waving at the traffic - he'll get himself killed standing there.

Quote ="flipper" https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater'" That picture is completely unfathomable to anyone who has grown up in Leeds in the years since they built the inner ring road. How the hell did you old timers get to the M62, to Showcase, to the McDonalds near Elland Road? And what on earth is that crazy loon with the white gloves doing waving at the traffic - he'll get himself killed standing there.

Even though the old YEP is in the picture I still had to get my head around where that is!

He's the old cop that SP referred to .

Other than the YP the only other building that should be recognisable to anyone over the age of say 25 is the one in the top right of the photo, its an engineering company (was it Fairbairn Lawson???) which was demolished sometime in the 1990s (???) other than that there is nothing else to reference in that photo as its now under a few thousand tons of concrete



If you still haven't got it the Fairburn (???) building is now TGI Fridays and Kirkstall Road is going right and out of the top right hand corner of the photo.

When we flew to Las Vegas in Feb 1974 only part of the M62 was open and getting to Manchester Airport early in the morning would be tricky so we went the night before and stayed in a pub/hotel near the airport, it took hours going on the A62 and being diverted all over the place because of the motorway construction work AND the only part open in West Yorkshire had been closed the same week after the IRA coach bomb near to Hartshead Moor.

Eeeeeh tha dunt know tha born these days tha knos.




Las Vegas, 1974, now there's another story.

I'm 30 and I didn't recognise it

Vegas looks like an awesome City. I must visit sometime...

Here is a shot from another angle.
Taken in 1974 showing the Wellington Bridge Flyover under construction.
In the background are, on the left, the Yorkshire Post building built in 1970 and on the right the engineering works of Fairbairn, Lawson, Combe & Barbour Ltd., of Wellington Street.

I hope that helps further

I meant it took a few glances to look at where it was!

That picture is belting tho

Another shot of the YP Building.

Corr is that the time on the clock 8.39!