What a shame that they ever got rid of those overhead cables.

I hope I never get as old and boring as you guys

Oh you will be, one day you'll be telling teenagers, "I remember buses" or "I remember The Arc in Headingley" or "I remember Headingley" and they'll look at you and say "Zeepneepdordle f'tang f'tang, barblebeepoop doop" because of course those young kids won't be speaking your language anymore.

Haha, I knew old man Chicken would have a humorous response. I knew you'd know that i was joking y'know.

I love all you old farts.

I had a night out in Leeds on Saturday - went in The Scarborough at 4pm then at 10pm went for a curry over the road, left there at midnight to drive home after a bloody good night and feeling down with the kids and everything being out on a Saturday night and stuff.

Then on Sunday my youngest daughter tells me she was out in Leeds on saturday night too and she was in a bar not far away from where I was - but she didn't GO OUT until after 11pm.

So when I was coming home and ready for me bed, she was just going out.

The world has gone mad.

I saw just going out at around midnight. I didn't get in till 4am. We went to a strip club. It was awful.

speaking of which, Just seen mentioned on a couple of places that Hoagys is due to be demolished, I presume as part of the Eastgate redevelopment.

From the Secret Leeds Facebook page

Curse this here pub, 'twas a wicked temptress during my two years at Kitson College of Technology for during our day release course and the night school I was often to be found within its public bar rather than at my lectures resulting in me sitting my ONC exam and walking out after 10 minutes having not answered one question, I think I still hold the world record at the college for having scored 1 mark in an exam for spelling your name correctly.

Fortunately a mix-up and a change of staff at my employer meant that my requirement to attend college and obtain a qualification was swept under the carpet and forgotten, ah the days when you could get a job by doing the job and not needing a degree in whatever.

That pub has had more names than I can remember! Always the Cobourg to me though

An occasional lunchtime haunt when I worked in Dudley House - now renamed as something or other as part of The Light redevelopment. Used to be on the corner next to what is now Bar Risa on Albion Street?

Ah a pint of Tetleys mild, a pork pie and Eddie O'Donnell's Jazz Band. What more could you ask?

Well precisely, who needed a college education anyway ?

A different group https://www.facebook.com/groups/435097126582492/

A different group https://www.facebook.com/groups/435097126582492/

As someone who wasn't in Leeds when the flats existed, they do look a fascinating project

Never went inside the estate but they were certainly a landmark if you used the Central Bus Station as often as I did as a kid and when you read about their history then they were indeed a brave concept.

But "Queenies Castle" ?
No please, no reminders.

I really like the classic Art Deco stands in the bus station.
I heard (maybe apocryphal) that the Quarry Hill flats had a very sophisticated rubbish disposal shute system that had to be discontinued due to fears that they were being used to dispose of the bodies of children.

I had heard about the rubbish disposal there but not about body disposal!

Were there ever two main railway stations in the centre of Leeds? I have a vague memory of going to Warrington on a steam train from a 'Leeds Central' station in the early 60's. Did this then become Leeds City Station or were there two and Leeds Central closed...or did I dream the whole damn thing?

Quote ="Highbury Rhino"Were there ever two main railway stations in the centre of Leeds? I have a vague memory of going to Warrington on a steam train from a 'Leeds Central' station in the early 60's. Did this then become Leeds City Station or were there two and Leeds Central closed...or did I dream the whole damn thing?'" You may well have done en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_Cent ... ay_station

Quote ="Highbury Rhino"Were there ever two main railway stations in the centre of Leeds? I have a vague memory of going to Warrington on a steam train from a 'Leeds Central' station in the early 60's. Did this then become Leeds City Station or were there two and Leeds Central closed...or did I dream the whole damn thing?'" You may well have done en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_Cent ... ay_station

and here's something about the waste disposal system ukhousing.wikia.com/wiki/Garchey ... sal_system

and here's something about the waste disposal system ukhousing.wikia.com/wiki/Garchey ... sal_system

Quote ="Highbury Rhino"Were there ever two main railway stations in the centre of Leeds? I have a vague memory of going to Warrington on a steam train from a 'Leeds Central' station in the early 60's. Did this then become Leeds City Station or were there two and Leeds Central closed...or did I dream the whole damn thing?'" As immortalised in the Hue and Cry song www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONc3OMOb98I Hue & Cry of course supported Madonna at Rounday in 1987, spooky

Quote ="Highbury Rhino"Were there ever two main railway stations in the centre of Leeds? I have a vague memory of going to Warrington on a steam train from a 'Leeds Central' station in the early 60's. Did this then become Leeds City Station or were there two and Leeds Central closed...or did I dream the whole damn thing?'" As immortalised in the Hue and Cry song www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONc3OMOb98I Hue & Cry of course supported Madonna at Rounday in 1987, spooky

There were two stations. Leeds City (where it is now) and Leeds Central (situated between Wellington Street and Whitehall Road) approximately [url=http://goo.gl/maps/9oJUYHERE[/url.

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The 'Cobourg' reinvented itself as a Thai restaurant this week.

Am I right in thinking that the remaining stone building used to be a train lift, or did I just make that up?