Just like every second shop in Leeds used to be a shoe shop, or it certainly used to feel like it.

That's a joke, right?
Please say yes.

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I believe you're right - Good riddance I say, I’d spend several hours trying on sh[size=100i[/sizet shoes then end up in Clarkes getting the same as my older brother.

Quote ="Andy Gilder"Sadly not, work has also been halted "temporarily" on Lumiere. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 4272465.jp'" Excuse my ignorance ... but do they actually use cranes to build things so big?

Quote ="Andy Gilder"Sadly not, work has also been halted "temporarily" on Lumiere. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 4272465.jp'" Excuse my ignorance ... but do they actually use cranes to build things so big?

Dunno chief, Uncle Harry is the resident Civil Engineering expert here I think...

Yes they do. I watched a fascinating documentary recently on skyscrapers and when they built the Twin Towers in NY they got Australian kangaroo cranes which were inside the structure and climbed up it was it was being built.

Was AP there cheering the crane on?

How do the cranes get built so high in the first place ?

Do they lay them on the ground and pull them upright with ropes and lots of burly men in vests ?

Not grass-roots enough.

And today's link-to-something-in-the-background of the photo is West Riding House. My very first job was on the 17th floor of that building. My first day was 30/8/88.

Don't you mean Burley men in vests?

If only you'd started 22 days earlier...

wouldny he have to be Chinese......

At least you got to take a couple of months off in the summer - I left school on a Friday in July and started work on the Monday and with no accrued holidays (not even my missing school holidays which strangely didn't count) I worked right through for a full year before taking a day off.

Of course, those were hard times, dun't know their born now...

Well, I've seen tower cranes being built by using mobile extending cranes on the ground but you couldn't do that with this kind of height.

I reckon that what you need to do is build a tower crane as normal.
Then when the building nearly as high as the crane, you use that crane to lift an extending crane on top of the building.
Then use that extending crane to build the tower crane even higher.

I'm a genius, me.
I could have got those planks across the gym in the Army Officers' initiative tests, easy.

Thats genius that is, you see someone like me isn't capable of thinking like that.





(and now the Columbo moment...)


Just one more thing though sir...

How do they dismantle the big tower crane when the buildings finished ?

That's where the lateral thinking comes in.
You don't dismantle it.
This is Leeds, so you'll obviously need to knock the building down in a few years time.
The crane will come in handy for that.




I'm wasted in this job.



I'm wasted most weekends as well.

I have now tried the Cross Keys as well (I needed a pint after the tense game against Huddersfield).
It's a really nice pub with a pleasant atmosphere in a smartened-up old building.
Good service and a varied selection of proper beer, as well as Belgian lagers.
Menu reads well, too.

I am led to believe there could be a city centre pub, and a leeds brewery lager in the offing (but i didn't tell you that)



[url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20031021_10406130&DISPLAY=FULLgreat pic[/url

IIRC there was a sixties sitcom filmed in Quarry Hill (although I could be wrong).

From what I understand it was flattened in 1978 and a majority of the population was move the brand new, state of the arts housing complex that we affectionately know as Holt Park.

Frying pan and fire springs to mind.

"Queenie's Castle" with Diana Dors in the lead role IIRC.

Thanks for that, I may have to a bit of research on the famous ‘tube’ site and see if I can find owt.

It wasn't very good.

It relied on the big lardd bleached blonde Dors far too much and when you hold that sort of opinion on her personality and acting abilities then the series is never going to work.

It was weird growing up in the 70's. She was famous, and you weren't sure why, she being just an overweight blonde with little talent.

Then, sometime later, you see some pictures of her in her heyday, and it all becomes clear....