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 🤘🤘❤️❤️
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.
@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.
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.
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
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 !
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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 🤘🤘❤️❤️
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.
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.
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.
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 was 12 years old when this was film this was before UA-cam what a classic footage especially in 2023 from the USA 🇺🇸
Amazing thank you for sharing with all the old fogies of the 80s lol x
Thanks for sharing
Left Leeds in sept 93, went back for a visit in june 22, couldn't believe how much it had changed.
Remember this as a teen I still live in leeds now and drive these streets :)
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 !
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
Engine sounds knackered.
The biggest changes are in the skyline of Leeds and road changes such as cycle lanes and pedestrianisation.
So much change yet so much the same.
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.
Along Whitehall Road is totally unrecognisable now! So many shiny office blocks that sit half empty.
I'm a Manchester lad but I lived in Leeds from 2011 to 2014 Armley and Morley went past kirkstall Abbey a few times.
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 :)
Leeds is beautiful and evry day more beautiful 25/01/2021 🇬🇧🇬🇧🕌🕌🕌♥️❤️🌷💚🇬🇧👍🕌
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
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.
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
as younger person and i dont know Leeds well, i didnt recognise anywhere until 8:50
Looks more advanced back then lol 😆 😂 🤣
the first ever dashcam - guy must be worth a fortune
This was on iPhone 📲 - 12 😂
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
Nice Capri
Lovely he went past my house
Ford Capri?
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!
Engine ?
What type of car was it?
Capri
mk3 capri?
Yes MK3
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??
V6
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.