Thank you for the upload, Where the vlog starts I served my apprentice ship and worked at John Curtis Shopfitters 1976 till 1983,walked through those wooden gates a few times over the years,Happy days . Living in Norfolk now . John D.
Thank you. My Dad used to work at Kirkstall Forge, right at the end of your video and we lived opposite, in Vesper Gate Mount. I can't believe it was 25 years ago.
Moved to Elsham Terrace, just off the Kirkstall Road, in October 93. Yes, as a student. Still love Leeds and over 30 years later, my kid is thinking of studying there too.
@davidtea740 I hope yours was better than mine. Water accumulated in the footwells the steering shuddered almost out of my hands under braking and I kept getting immobilised by blockages in the carb.
Love my city always have always will. The amount of pubs gone nightclubs gone things popped up is unreal. It's not the biggest city centre but it works when you are out on a sesh
I loved Leeds it’s such a big city. I like all the tall tower blocks . My twin lived in cotingley heights right over eland road. Thanks jean Ross and Andrew 🤘🤘❤️❤️
I was 9 years old and robbing loads of toys from jolly giants 😂 😂 I would make my way from Hyde Park ls6 to the store on my ones. Can't let yer kids wander these days though too many wrong uns about.
Straight away I knew the video was starting outside of what is now is Gary Don's & opposite Hughes Funeral Home. I should know it, I walk down that street 5 times a week !
CHECK IT OUT AT 7.30..on the left..JOLLY GIANT TOY SHOP ...I WAS 18 AT THE TIME ...FLIPPIN HECK...THAT TAKES ME BACK ...IM LOOKING OUT FOR ME IN THIS ONE :-)
To left at top kirkstall road there is a hotel I worked there in 1996 in this video it’s not even built! We used to have a fire from Yorkshire tv stay there
Fuck me I used to miss that turn off near the swimming pool every time! Had a shit Astra and thought I was the dogs bollocks. Then had a Cavalier and the rest is history. Love this video!
the skyline of leeds has changed so much with its huge skyscraper buildings present now making the skyline look amazing, and the city centre has literally doubled in size and is to expand even more. leeds and mancs are certainly the 2 cities that really have grown the most over the last 30years, back in the 70s and 80s leeds was a bit dull and grey but it was around 93 onwards that things really changed
Manchester city centre is vast compared to Leeds. Too big to get about if yiu don't know where to go. And Manchester is, like a village compared to London!
@@bobstermahernah once u get used to mancs its easy to get around, plans to double size of leeds cc which is happening, both cities are large in terms of motorways and dual carriageway networks, large juncs, leeds with its inner ring road and tunnels etc but yes i agree mancs is a very big place for sure
I think it was around this time that the red light area moved to Holbeck. I worked on Domestic Street and used Holbeck Lane post office. I was quite surprised to be propositioned just outside it one evening as I hadn’t realised that was the case.
Leeds was always very depressing to me, especially in the 1980s. I can't quite put my finger on it, It always filled me with despair each and every time I had to go there on weekends to visit my mothers side of the family. It was just a very character less and baron landscape that seemed to be trapped in time, I just couldn't bear it. Simply Horrible place.
@@brittania1974 bro,ya did better than me. I came to a 3rd World Country at the age of 32. I'm very much 'disliked' due to my skin colour. Even though I employ 8 ladys and gent that are African. But the numb nut government just want to opress us. They won't find employment for my guys and girls when I piss off back to Leeds. Duno what I'm guna do there tho now I'm mid 50's.
Fuck me I used to miss that turn off near the swimming pool every time! Had a shit Astra and thought I was the dogs bollocks. Then had a Cavalier and the rest is history. Love this video!
Watched from beginning to the end. Leeds born and bred since 1971. Great video 👍
It's amazing how nearly 30 years later and so many of it is still recognisable. A lot of history in the buildings around Leeds, that's for sure.
Left Leeds in sept 93, went back for a visit in june 22, couldn't believe how much it had changed.
Love these old video's. I was 15, it's brilliant to see it all like this again.
Thank you for the upload, Where the vlog starts I served my apprentice ship and worked at John Curtis Shopfitters 1976 till 1983,walked through those wooden gates a few times over the years,Happy days . Living in Norfolk now . John D.
Remember this as a teen I still live in leeds now and drive these streets :)
I was 12 years old when this was film this was before UA-cam what a classic footage especially in 2023 from the USA 🇺🇸
Thank you. My Dad used to work at Kirkstall Forge, right at the end of your video and we lived opposite, in Vesper Gate Mount. I can't believe it was 25 years ago.
Moved to Elsham Terrace, just off the Kirkstall Road, in October 93. Yes, as a student. Still love Leeds and over 30 years later, my kid is thinking of studying there too.
Amazingly nostalgic. In the early 90s I was living in Leeds, and I drove a Capri.
@davidtea740 I hope yours was better than mine. Water accumulated in the footwells the steering shuddered almost out of my hands under braking and I kept getting immobilised by blockages in the carb.
@@momentsofyesterday Was it a 1.6L? My brother had a similar mk III, with the two pod dash and 4 speed box. I still have a 2.0S
Amazing thank you for sharing with all the old fogies of the 80s lol x
Love my city always have always will. The amount of pubs gone nightclubs gone things popped up is unreal. It's not the biggest city centre but it works when you are out on a sesh
I loved Leeds it’s such a big city. I like all the tall tower blocks . My twin lived in cotingley heights right over eland road. Thanks jean Ross and Andrew 🤘🤘❤️❤️
I remember the old jolly green giant store on Whitehall road and the old evening post building
I was 9 years old and robbing loads of toys from jolly giants 😂 😂 I would make my way from Hyde Park ls6 to the store on my ones. Can't let yer kids wander these days though too many wrong uns about.
I love old videos back from when filming everyday life wasn't a thing!
straight in to the nostalgia with the car engine sound
Flat 4s sound dreadful. Cheapskate Brit cars.
@@tumslucks9781and? Nostalgia doesn't always sound good
@@frogdigy Those cheapskate Brit cars certainly don't. 😜
@tumslucks9781 good job this isn't a flat four then isn't it numbnuts.this is a overhead cam pinto engine and they are great engines.
Thanks for sharing
1st thing comes to mind, how relaxing the traffic is...these days roads are a nightmare...loved this
Used to congregate in that carpark behind the old abc cinema after the gallery had closed at 2am. Tunes pumping from car stereos until 4am happy days
I worked at gallery after it became pleasure rooms,Leeds was a top place for a night out in the early mid 90s
It was indeed 1992-1997 for me. Great times in town @@OoohAaah6603
The biggest changes are in the skyline of Leeds and road changes such as cycle lanes and pedestrianisation.
This takes me back ❤
I'm watching this in 1983 and the future looks fine.
It would take a lot longer than 15 minutes to drive that route today!
It would have usually done then too, this was a Sunday morning.
@@momentsofyesterday Ahhhh... That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for sharing the video BTW.
Straight away I knew the video was starting outside of what is now is Gary Don's & opposite Hughes Funeral Home.
I should know it, I walk down that street 5 times a week !
Along Whitehall Road is totally unrecognisable now! So many shiny office blocks that sit half empty.
the transformation of Whitehall road is unreal
Thanks for posting. 93 sounds recent but Whitehall Rd & Monk Bridge ? Iron Works brooding presence all gone
Cheers, didn’t expect to end up going past Kirkstall Abbey :)
What a gem thank you
I'm a Manchester lad but I lived in Leeds from 2011 to 2014 Armley and Morley went past kirkstall Abbey a few times.
Alot of money has been spent in Leeds centre, yiu can tell. Compare it to Bradford, which is 10 miles away and it's like it's in a time warp 70s style
Dash cam before dash cams lol
The sound of the car brings bk memories
The skyline is very different today that's for sure
Engine sounds knackered.
Thats a Capri!!!! Had 53 of them and still have 2! Is that a 1.6 pinto???? Wish i could go back to those days.
Leeds is beautiful and evry day more beautiful 25/01/2021 🇬🇧🇬🇧🕌🕌🕌♥️❤️🌷💚🇬🇧👍🕌
the first ever dashcam - guy must be worth a fortune
This was on iPhone 📲 - 12 😂
Mental, you drove right by where my shop is now, it would have been built just a couple years after this video, now it's falling down lol
So much change yet so much the same.
CHECK IT OUT AT 7.30..on the left..JOLLY GIANT TOY SHOP ...I WAS 18 AT THE TIME ...FLIPPIN HECK...THAT TAKES ME BACK ...IM LOOKING OUT FOR ME IN THIS ONE :-)
It looks very different and much better nowadays. And that was already an improvement to the 1970s!
Take me back!
I've walked all over these routes!
as younger person and i dont know Leeds well, i didnt recognise anywhere until 8:50
Ford Capri?
Looks more advanced back then lol 😆 😂 🤣
Haha people been speeding in that inside lane upto the gyratory since forever then!?!
What car is the cammer driving?
but was the MI5 building there in 93?
Yes, clearly the DWP building was there, it was built in 1987.
What type of car was it?
Capri
Ah, remember going down Kirkstall road without having to fear the fucking speed cameras.
Near on 31 years later and it has not changed much
To left at top kirkstall road there is a hotel I worked there in 1996 in this video it’s not even built! We used to have a fire from Yorkshire tv stay there
NO speed cameras back then 😂
Great to see how much nicer the streets were without bloody bike lanes and bus gates everywhere
Fuck me I used to miss that turn off near the swimming pool every time! Had a shit Astra and thought I was the dogs bollocks. Then had a Cavalier and the rest is history. Love this video!
the skyline of leeds has changed so much with its huge skyscraper buildings present now making the skyline look amazing, and the city centre has literally doubled in size and is to expand even more. leeds and mancs are certainly the 2 cities that really have grown the most over the last 30years, back in the 70s and 80s leeds was a bit dull and grey but it was around 93 onwards that things really changed
Manchester city centre is vast compared to Leeds. Too big to get about if yiu don't know where to go. And Manchester is, like a village compared to London!
@@bobstermahernah once u get used to mancs its easy to get around, plans to double size of leeds cc which is happening, both cities are large in terms of motorways and dual carriageway networks, large juncs, leeds with its inner ring road and tunnels etc but yes i agree mancs is a very big place for sure
@@easydrive3662 both great cities
Nice Capri
Lovely he went past my house
Engine ?
mk3 capri?
Yes MK3
Yea something is very different now
Mk2 ford capri
@michaelgolding6347 pappa uniform golf 870 whiskey.(I was forever getting stopped by the filth)
@momentsofyesterday tell me about it bud. Remember the 7 day producer. Used to call it 7 day wonder
quick trip around the red light district of Holbeck! LOL.
only area i recognised
I think it was around this time that the red light area moved to Holbeck. I worked on Domestic Street and used Holbeck Lane post office. I was quite surprised to be propositioned just outside it one evening as I hadn’t realised that was the case.
I thought Spencer Place and Gathorne Terrace were the prozzie streets??
Walter Trace
V6
Bot much traffic
Leeds minus the bl00dy bike lanes, reduced motorist lanes and increased congestion. Bliss.
No, if you look there wasn't as much traffic then, the things you don't like are needed because there is now too much traffic.
Slow down
Leeds was always very depressing to me, especially in the 1980s. I can't quite put my finger on it, It always filled me with despair each and every time I had to go there on weekends to visit my mothers side of the family. It was just a very character less and baron landscape that seemed to be trapped in time, I just couldn't bear it. Simply Horrible place.
Still the same now, nothing changes right..
Pissed off from there 2001.
Cape Town South Africa.
I miss my youth,but not the place.
@JohnFletcher-hz1mp good for you mate. I saw my escape in 1995 and buggered off to America when I was 20.
@@brittania1974 bro,ya did better than me.
I came to a 3rd World Country at the age of 32.
I'm very much 'disliked' due to my skin colour.
Even though I employ 8 ladys and gent that are African.
But the numb nut government just want to opress us.
They won't find employment for my guys and girls when I piss off back to Leeds.
Duno what I'm guna do there tho now I'm mid 50's.
Fuck me I used to miss that turn off near the swimming pool every time! Had a shit Astra and thought I was the dogs bollocks. Then had a Cavalier and the rest is history. Love this video!