...and always willing to take advantage of a free plug he mentions in passing tomorrows blog entry from recollections of life in the Lumleys ...

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I was born just off Alexandra Road, and have lived in Village Terrace, Brudenell Road, Alexandra Road, the Woddlseys & The Harolds but I have no clue where The Lumleys are.

Care to enlighten me?

The Lumleys are the terraces below the Allotments at HQ. The ones to the right as you walk over the bridge away from HQ. My aunt lived in Lumley walk and a grand chip shop at the bottom of her street.

I always though McLaren was posh and lived in the Stanmores.

Rosemount Fisheries?

If so, it was indeed a grand chippy. They did the best fish I've ever had.

It's now............(wait for it)............STUDENT HOUSING!

My God!

You've just brought back a dream I had about 45 years ago about getting lost around there.

As I close my eyes now, I can recall many of the details of that dream.

The brain's a strange thing, innit?

But, tbh, I think mine needs a clearout. I need the room.

Yep that chippie was on the corner of our street, Mrs Marshmellow worked there.













I don't think that was her real name but she reminded me and my brother of a marshmellow when we were very young.













No, she didn't have bits of coconut stuck to her face, but she was round and fluffy.

[url=http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/screen/86/2008523_166786.jpgNice Elland Road pic circa 1967[/url

Indeed it is Silver Royd Hill in Wortley ... The Admiral spent some of his formative years right where the woman and her washing are in the picture.

The houses on the left had gone by the time I got there ....

He's right you know, carry on over the little bridge past the Supporters Club and turn sharp left just over the bridge .... Past the allotments, the first set of houses out come to on the right are the Lumleys.

It's where LP and I first used to park our cars on match days ....

Went to school with his daughter .... In fact, he lives very close to the old 'Admiralty Building' in Leeds, where I used to live.

The first one you come to is Lumley Road - thats where we lived when I was extremely young, those back-to-back streets going down Beechwood Crescent were where I rode the range on my pretend horse with my pardners looking for "injuns" and sometimes getting shot and dying heroically.


I could be cruel and say that it all happens in real life around there now, but I won't.

Away fans have been known to park down there and think "I know where the car is, it's on Beechwood something".

I know one home fan who did the same thing years ago and spent 20 minutes wandering around Beechwood this, Beechwood that, Beechwood something-else thinking his car had been stolen.

We lived on the Stanmores....aaagghhh...I'm posh!!!!!

[url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2004116_53908938&DISPLAY=FULLbarrage balloon over Roseville Road[/url

Also filmed in parts of the Burmantofts area.

One thing thats very noticable on that photograph is just how smoky the atmosphere is.

Anyone under the age of 40 won't remember that buildings were always one colour - black, not because they were built from black bricks but because they were coated with a layer of soot - everything was, the black buildings in that photo aren't just the result of a bad negative, they really were all black.

Leeds Town Hall was completely black until the late sixties when it was cleaned after the Clean Air Act was passed banning the use of coal fires in certain districts, I remember moving to Cookridge in 1963 from Burley - Cookridge was one of the first "smokeless zones" and my dad moaned like hell because it took ages to get a fire going with smokeless coke instead of coal - he had to use a gas poker for ten minutes in the coke stove to get the stuff burning, yes thats right, we used gas to light a coal fire, why couldn't we just use gas on its own ?

[url=http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/screen/82/2008220_166182.jpgLittle London 1969, looks like beirut[/url

Are you sure it wasn't cleaned up later than that?

I'm sure I remember it being black, and the shock when it was sandblasted clean. I was born in 1970.

I remember similar shock when they did the same to what was City Of Leeds High School (now the council offices).

Little London has NEVER looked as good as Beirut!

And the time in the early 70s when someone working on the clock got stuck / injured / taken ill and it was one of the first 'air / sea rescues' (albeit without the sea !) when they flew a chopper in really close to winch the bloke out.

It may have been, it all sort of merges into one after a while



My Uncle Tommy was a decorator for the council and one of his jobs every year was to paint the lions on the Town Hall steps - we used to look out for him every time we got the bus down Burley Rd and along the Headrow and I seem to recall at some point asking if it was at all dangerous painting lions white and did he have to wait until they went to sleep, of course he told me that was the case.


I was 17 at the time.

This site states that the cleaning of the Town Hall was not proposed until 1972: www.francisfrith.co.uk/pageloade ... 2&start=40 When this picture was taken (1965), the town hall, with its 225ft tower and spectacular frontage of giant columns and pilasters, was in desperate need of a good clean to rid it of decades of soot and grime. In 1972 a proposal for cleaning was at last put on the agenda. However, the Labour group on the council objected

This site states that the cleaning of the Town Hall was not proposed until 1972: www.francisfrith.co.uk/pageloade ... 2&start=40 When this picture was taken (1965), the town hall, with its 225ft tower and spectacular frontage of giant columns and pilasters, was in desperate need of a good clean to rid it of decades of soot and grime. In 1972 a proposal for cleaning was at last put on the agenda. However, the Labour group on the council objected

Quote ="Andreww"This site states that the cleaning of the Town Hall was not proposed until 1972: www.francisfrith.co.uk/pageloade ... 2&start=40 When this picture was taken (1965), the town hall, with its 225ft tower and spectacular frontage of giant columns and pilasters, was in desperate need of a good clean to rid it of decades of soot and grime. In 1972 a proposal for cleaning was at last put on the agenda. However, the Labour group on the council objected'" Thats a great picture of the Town Hall and libraries clad in black, as were most of the buildings up the Headrow, especially the stone clad ones although for some reason I can never recall the Parkinson building at the university being anything other than white ?

Quote ="Andreww"This site states that the cleaning of the Town Hall was not proposed until 1972: www.francisfrith.co.uk/pageloade ... 2&start=40 When this picture was taken (1965), the town hall, with its 225ft tower and spectacular frontage of giant columns and pilasters, was in desperate need of a good clean to rid it of decades of soot and grime. In 1972 a proposal for cleaning was at last put on the agenda. However, the Labour group on the council objected'" Thats a great picture of the Town Hall and libraries clad in black, as were most of the buildings up the Headrow, especially the stone clad ones although for some reason I can never recall the Parkinson building at the university being anything other than white ?

Parkinson building wasn't built until 1951, so didn't have much chance of getting dirty.

The Parkinson Building has never impressed me. I've always thought it was no great shakes.