Shots of Town Hall clock, Albion Street/ Merrion Street, the Merrion Centre and The Headrow. See also • Leeds - River Aire - 1... - shots of City Square and River Aire.
Only visited Leeds once, and enjoyed the trip. Come to Wolverhampton if you want to visit a City that's lovely, though. Yow cor beat a pint of Banks's, aer kid, a bag of pork scratchings, black puddin' and faggots 'n' gray pays (peas). Proper culture, lad, and home of the WOLVES!
Lots of happy memories ..born in Leeds in 1960's and lived there until my mid 20's when I married and moved away ...visited my parents regularly right up to their passing ....so this was lovely to watch ..Thankyou 😁💕
Started school next the Merrion centre in 63. caught the number 2 bus home. I remember all the shops shown. Oh boy the memory and reality are so different.
Great shot of the road that went through the Merrion Centre and the underground access area too! When I tell people that a road went through it they don't believe me!! lol
Brings back memories I went to High School opposite the Merrion Centre from 1967 to 1974. Shame the video didn't show the garage at the top of Great George Street.
Anyone else wonder why the newspaper kiosk was situated under the rain water egress pipe from the skywalk? I’m also old enough to remember driving up Briggate.
I remember huge sign gantries that spanned Briggate with movable signs that could display different signs - maybe depending on how full the various car parks were.
Hello, I am a film student at Leeds Beckett University. We have been making a documentary about Leeds and it would be so wonderful if we could use some clips from your video please. They are so interesting. Would this be possible please? The film will be shown at film festivals and online when it is finished. We would also love to invite you to the local premiere. Hope to hear from you. All the best.
Would you mind if I used this over a track for my band Young Amphibians? We're a Leeds based Alt Rock band? Not for sale just for promotional purposes. Thanks
Was there meant to be sound on the video because the slider was up to the top and it said audio was on? I left Leeds in March '67 to emigrate to Oz but some of these alterations must have happened after I'd gone because it doesn't look the same as I remember it, except one or two areas. It looks more modern. I had three trips back, the first in '87 after 20yrs and of course there were lots of changes not only to Leeds but Farsley where I was born and Pudsey area where I had lived also. Other two trips were done in '91 and '98 and each time, more changes. I see all the updates from the Leeds/Farsley and Pudsey groups that I'm in on Face Book, as well as the nostalgia of the old black and white photos. Good video just wish there was sound.
No there's no sound. The MPEG that I uploaded has a soundtrack data stream but it contains no data (it is mute) because the film has no sound. I think Dad shot the film in the very late 1960s, given that there's a billboard advert for Telefusion renting colour TVs, and I think Emley Moor mast started transmitting colour in 1969, because the Wikipedia entry for the collapse of the old Emley Moor (March 1969) refers to colour TV on BBC2 existing on the old mast. I remember my grandpa taking me to see the ruins of the old mast a day or so after it happened. He may have shot the film as a test for a film that he was planning to make comparing the River Aire in Leeds with the River Aire in Malham. We've got all the raw footage but he never got round to editing it or writing a script.
@@Mortimer50145 If it was shot in the late 60s that's why it looks different and a bit more modern with me leaving in March, '67. By the time I had my three visits, first in '87 after 20yrs, and then in '91 and '98, everything was well changed then. No, there wasn't any colour TV when we left in '67. I remember it coming out in Oz in I think early 70s, as my daughter was born in March '68 and my first son in '70 and I think it came out shortly after that. It was like at the cinemas in UK when colour films were a novelty, you only got some programmes in colour to start with, then as it got more popular and blk & wht TV was left behind, they were all in colour. A lot of adjusting had to be done then to get the right colour, but now these flat screens and smart TVs are already set. It was also nice to see a van on the left there with Craven Dairies on as in '87 these shops had disappeared. There was one across the road from the last dress shop I worked in in Boar Lane before leaving, called J. Jones, and we used to go and get hot soup in cardboard mugs with fold-out handles in the winter. J. Jones only had fan heaters in their showrooms, not central heating like the other two shops I'd worked in, so it was a bit cold sometimes, you had to stand over the heaters, so the soup was quite welcome for warming you up. The manageress didn't mind sending us over the road during the morning for soup for us and her to sip in one of the fitting rooms, and her in her office. Nice toasted tea cakes as well. Nice to see though, thanks for sharing,
I am always struck by the fewer numbers of people around town in those days,also the average age is much higher and also (and this applies to turn of the last century pictures even) the seeming prosperity ...can this really be so ?
I moved to Yorkshire in 2013 and fell in love with Leeds. Where is the circular roadway show at 2:15 ? I assume that doesn't exist anymore, but where was it?
It *does* still exist: Wade Street to the side of the Merrion Centre goo.gl/maps/hemcDafY7xPZh2cy9 except seen from a higher angle and further back. I was resigned to having to "walk the streets" in Google Streetview for ages, but I found it very quickly. The earlier shots around 0:25 were from Albion Street looking across to the front of the Merrion Centre goo.gl/maps/yffbVbivACqa2Bns5, including the entrance with "Mrs Lopsided" at 1:20. 2:25 is Headrow, seen from near Lewis's department store. goo.gl/maps/MsR8GbbyAJAfqLaY9 - Schofields building has been demolished and replaced, but the building beyond it with the fancy gable end is still there. 2:40 is the other side of the road looking west to the Town Hall, identified by its tower. goo.gl/maps/UyE8bDELe61Kg25RA Then at 2:42, Briggate looking south to Leeds Bridge - I remember that huge horizontal gantry across the road that had road signs on it. The Army and Navy Store at 3:05 was in New Briggate, on the opposite side of Headrow. All changed and unrecognisable :-( 3:10 (Ivey Travel) is on Commercial Street junction with Bank Street and W H Smith used part of the Leeds Library (a private library) goo.gl/maps/7rkZorPrq68fbyq88
Awesome thanks! It's funny how some clips can be misleading. I interpreted 2:15 as some sort of crescent road on a slope, eventually coming back down to meet Merrion Street again.
Maybe it's just me, but when I watch old videos like this I'm struck by how much better everything looks - better fashion, better looking cars, better looking buildings. Now all the streets are cluttered with street furniture, people don't take any pride in their appearance and we drive around in distended, lumpen looking cars. Most high streets today look an absolute mess.
yup, there's no pride, people don't give a shit anymore. and recently on the radio it said that Leeds was the most littered city in the UK & lets face it, outside the city centre it is everywhere! what a dirty little nation we are! and what a bizarrely blasé attitude we have towards the problem?!
@@Tmuk2 It's not an opinion that most of what this video shows are 60s concrete buildings which replaced Victorian stone buildings. Literally no one thinks these are better than what was there originally and what is there now. Except you it seems.
I've not noticed before: the woman in the brown coat at 1:18, just before the Sutcliffe sign, looks *very* lopsided. She must have lead weights in the bag in her right hand :-)
It was my dad who filmed it. He's got dementia now and probably wouldn't understand if I asked him, so I'll make an executive decision on his behalf and say yes, go ahead - maybe give a credit to Peter Nigel Underwood. I remember him saying when we had the films coverting to DVD long before his dementia "Yes, share them on CZcams for other people to see".
Hi not sure if you've been off-line, but I have a couple of other questions, if you could help me please? The film I'm making is about the Leeds footballer Eddie Gray, and the footage of you dads, could be great to use in it. The extra questions are below if you had time to have a look at them, I'd really appreciate it. Many thanks@@Mortimer50145
In almost every clip shown, Leeds is portrayed as a grim, unfriendly and dirty City. The truth is the exact opposite, we have some of Britain`s leading retail fashion shops, plus some of the best Tailors in the land, A terrific public transport system (Compared to most other big Cities). There is a huge recreational area known as Roundhay park, with not one but TWO boating lakes, plus the Northern home of The Templar Knights, Temple Newsam, three of four first class golf courses, and let` not forget it is the home of Tetleys Brewery, whose beers are renowned everywhere in Britain, a GREAT Rugby League side, plus one of the best supported Football teams in this country. Do not denigrate our beautiful City.
Leeds has changed in the 55 or so years since my dad shot this film. Many of the smoke blackened buildings have been cleaned and the warehouses on the banks of the aire have been converted to flats. He'll, even the dark arches (not shown) are no longer the scary place that they were. But the film shows how things used to be.
@@raziasultana2006 Nothing wrong with the original wave of immigrants, they were hard working & kept their mouths shut, it's the new wave of free loaders & wasters that's been pouring into the city/country since around 1997 that's been the problem. and whether you like it or not there's been too much immigration now. it's gone too far, even the immigrants from the 50's, 60's & 70's will tell you that you dipstick
There was a thriving African and Caribbean community in Leeds in the 1960's but there are always those who post on the internet who are more than happy to show their ignorance.
Wish i was born in LEEDS. . It's a lovly City to visit. And on top of that,you've got the GREATEST football team in the world . Love LEEDS Norway 💙💛
Good lad
Don't be fooled. Most people are arrogant, rude and its full of money grabbing benefit scamming foreign bastards!
Strange but a lovely compliment!!!! Warm people but very average football team ...but supported extremely well!!!
Only visited Leeds once, and enjoyed the trip. Come to Wolverhampton if you want to visit a City that's lovely, though. Yow cor beat a pint of Banks's, aer kid, a bag of pork scratchings, black puddin' and faggots 'n' gray pays (peas). Proper culture, lad, and home of the WOLVES!
I so wish it was still like that 😪
Lots of happy memories ..born in Leeds in 1960's and lived there until my mid 20's when I married and moved away ...visited my parents regularly right up to their passing ....so this was lovely to watch ..Thankyou 😁💕
Started school next the Merrion centre in 63. caught the number 2 bus home. I remember all the shops shown. Oh boy the memory and reality are so different.
A fantastic nostalgia trip... Thanks for posting!
love how you can see the skywalk in many of the shots!
We have a great City and grwing up having been born and bred here its kind of sad but mezmoring at the same time
gotta love *Leeds* thumbs up for uploading this video!
Great shot of the road that went through the Merrion Centre and the underground access area too! When I tell people that a road went through it they don't believe me!! lol
Memories like Marmite, love 'em or ... You get the drift. Thank you for the film upload . Regards from an old Tyke.
Really good film, many thanks
I'm in Leeds now, in Becketts on Park Row. Everything seemed quieter and more civilised then.
Them old threpny bit cabs , great memories,
Brings back memories I went to High School opposite the Merrion Centre from 1967 to 1974. Shame the video didn't show the garage at the top of Great George Street.
0:42 56 bus. I used to be conductor on that bus. scared me zooming down that steep road with cinema at bottom.
Brilliant!
Thank you
Anyone else wonder why the newspaper kiosk was situated under the rain water egress pipe from the skywalk? I’m also old enough to remember driving up Briggate.
I remember huge sign gantries that spanned Briggate with movable signs that could display different signs - maybe depending on how full the various car parks were.
See also Leeds - River Aire - 1960s - shots of City Square and River Aire.
👍🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️ was beautiful city
Thanks.
Wow
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Hello, I am a film student at Leeds Beckett University. We have been making a documentary about Leeds and it would be so wonderful if we could use some clips from your video please. They are so interesting. Would this be possible please? The film will be shown at film festivals and online when it is finished. We would also love to invite you to the local premiere. Hope to hear from you. All the best.
Hi just following up to see if you have any more films of Leeds in the 60's 70's please? Thanks very much.
Would you mind if I used this over a track for my band Young Amphibians? We're a Leeds based Alt Rock band? Not for sale just for promotional purposes. Thanks
Was there meant to be sound on the video because the slider was up to the top and it said audio was on? I left Leeds in March '67 to emigrate to Oz but some of these alterations must have happened after I'd gone because it doesn't look the same as I remember it, except one or two areas. It looks more modern. I had three trips back, the first in '87 after 20yrs and of course there were lots of changes not only to Leeds but Farsley where I was born and Pudsey area where I had lived also. Other two trips were done in '91 and '98 and each time, more changes. I see all the updates from the Leeds/Farsley and Pudsey groups that I'm in on Face Book, as well as the nostalgia of the old black and white photos. Good video just wish there was sound.
No there's no sound. The MPEG that I uploaded has a soundtrack data stream but it contains no data (it is mute) because the film has no sound.
I think Dad shot the film in the very late 1960s, given that there's a billboard advert for Telefusion renting colour TVs, and I think Emley Moor mast started transmitting colour in 1969, because the Wikipedia entry for the collapse of the old Emley Moor (March 1969) refers to colour TV on BBC2 existing on the old mast. I remember my grandpa taking me to see the ruins of the old mast a day or so after it happened.
He may have shot the film as a test for a film that he was planning to make comparing the River Aire in Leeds with the River Aire in Malham. We've got all the raw footage but he never got round to editing it or writing a script.
@@Mortimer50145 If it was shot in the late 60s that's why it looks different and a bit more modern with me leaving in March, '67. By the time I had my three visits, first in '87 after 20yrs, and then in '91 and '98, everything was well changed then. No, there wasn't any colour TV when we left in '67. I remember it coming out in Oz in I think early 70s, as my daughter was born in March '68 and my first son in '70 and I think it came out shortly after that. It was like at the cinemas in UK when colour films were a novelty, you only got some programmes in colour to start with, then as it got more popular and blk & wht TV was left behind, they were all in colour. A lot of adjusting had to be done then to get the right colour, but now these flat screens and smart TVs are already set.
It was also nice to see a van on the left there with Craven Dairies on as in '87 these shops had disappeared. There was one across the road from the last dress shop I worked in in Boar Lane before leaving, called J. Jones, and we used to go and get hot soup in cardboard mugs with fold-out handles in the winter. J. Jones only had fan heaters in their showrooms, not central heating like the other two shops I'd worked in, so it was a bit cold sometimes, you had to stand over the heaters, so the soup was quite welcome for warming you up. The manageress didn't mind sending us over the road during the morning for soup for us and her to sip in one of the fitting rooms, and her in her office. Nice toasted tea cakes as well. Nice to see though, thanks for sharing,
Great
I am always struck by the fewer numbers of people around town in those days,also the average age is much higher and also (and this applies to turn of the last century pictures even) the seeming prosperity ...can this really be so ?
I moved to Yorkshire in 2013 and fell in love with Leeds. Where is the circular roadway show at 2:15 ? I assume that doesn't exist anymore, but where was it?
It *does* still exist: Wade Street to the side of the Merrion Centre goo.gl/maps/hemcDafY7xPZh2cy9 except seen from a higher angle and further back. I was resigned to having to "walk the streets" in Google Streetview for ages, but I found it very quickly. The earlier shots around 0:25 were from Albion Street looking across to the front of the Merrion Centre goo.gl/maps/yffbVbivACqa2Bns5, including the entrance with "Mrs Lopsided" at 1:20.
2:25 is Headrow, seen from near Lewis's department store. goo.gl/maps/MsR8GbbyAJAfqLaY9 - Schofields building has been demolished and replaced, but the building beyond it with the fancy gable end is still there. 2:40 is the other side of the road looking west to the Town Hall, identified by its tower. goo.gl/maps/UyE8bDELe61Kg25RA Then at 2:42, Briggate looking south to Leeds Bridge - I remember that huge horizontal gantry across the road that had road signs on it. The Army and Navy Store at 3:05 was in New Briggate, on the opposite side of Headrow. All changed and unrecognisable :-(
3:10 (Ivey Travel) is on Commercial Street junction with Bank Street and W H Smith used part of the Leeds Library (a private library) goo.gl/maps/7rkZorPrq68fbyq88
Awesome thanks! It's funny how some clips can be misleading. I interpreted 2:15 as some sort of crescent road on a slope, eventually coming back down to meet Merrion Street again.
Maybe it's just me, but when I watch old videos like this I'm struck by how much better everything looks - better fashion, better looking cars, better looking buildings. Now all the streets are cluttered with street furniture, people don't take any pride in their appearance and we drive around in distended, lumpen looking cars. Most high streets today look an absolute mess.
yup, there's no pride, people don't give a shit anymore. and recently on the radio it said that Leeds was the most littered city in the UK & lets face it, outside the city centre it is everywhere! what a dirty little nation we are! and what a bizarrely blasé attitude we have towards the problem?!
This video show nothing but 60's concrete buildings so no idea what you are talking about.
@@DamnDealDone Opinions are like arseholes - everyone's got one
@@Tmuk2 It's not an opinion that most of what this video shows are 60s concrete buildings which replaced Victorian stone buildings. Literally no one thinks these are better than what was there originally and what is there now. Except you it seems.
@@DamnDealDone And the other 19 people who recommended my comment. Anyway, pointless conversation, bye.
1:51 I know that poster from somewhere!
Is the Genral Wade pub still there ?, downstairs under the Merrion Centre
david beckett no mate it isn't it's all changed
My dad was a bus driver in Leeds
I've not noticed before: the woman in the brown coat at 1:18, just before the Sutcliffe sign, looks *very* lopsided. She must have lead weights in the bag in her right hand :-)
First thing i noticed....23/12/2022.
Not much has changed then. I wonder is the majestic still open.
it was undergoing renovation work recently but sadly got set on fire. I think work has stopped now.
the majestic is being redeveloped into yet more office space near the station.
the demographics have changed!
sutcliffe.... the yorkshire ripper was predicted
you going to take me shopping?
Hi I'm making a film about Leeds. Did you shoot the footage? Thanks
It was my dad who filmed it. He's got dementia now and probably wouldn't understand if I asked him, so I'll make an executive decision on his behalf and say yes, go ahead - maybe give a credit to Peter Nigel Underwood. I remember him saying when we had the films coverting to DVD long before his dementia "Yes, share them on CZcams for other people to see".
Fantastic thanks. Do you have the DVD's and could I get a copy of them at all please?@@Mortimer50145
In fact do you still have the original films?
Sorry for all the questions, but do you have any more films of Leeds in the 60's? Thanks
Hi not sure if you've been off-line, but I have a couple of other questions, if you could help me please? The film I'm making is about the Leeds footballer Eddie Gray, and the footage of you dads, could be great to use in it. The extra questions are below if you had time to have a look at them, I'd really appreciate it. Many thanks@@Mortimer50145
Those shops look pretty dull.
Good job we have amazon.
where were you? i was looking forward to our date and you go an stand me up.
In almost every clip shown, Leeds is portrayed as a grim, unfriendly and dirty City. The truth is the exact opposite, we have some of Britain`s leading retail fashion shops, plus some of the best Tailors in the land, A terrific public transport system (Compared to most other big Cities). There is a huge recreational area known as Roundhay park, with not one but TWO boating lakes, plus the Northern home of The Templar Knights, Temple Newsam, three of four first class golf courses, and let` not forget it is the home of Tetleys Brewery, whose beers are renowned everywhere in Britain, a GREAT Rugby League side, plus one of the best supported Football teams in this country. Do not denigrate our beautiful City.
Leeds has changed in the 55 or so years since my dad shot this film. Many of the smoke blackened buildings have been cleaned and the warehouses on the banks of the aire have been converted to flats. He'll, even the dark arches (not shown) are no longer the scary place that they were. But the film shows how things used to be.
Not a chav in sight. Everyone looking smart as well.
I bet it did not have all the druggies then
....and third world trash!
@@raziasultana2006 Nothing wrong with the original wave of immigrants, they were hard working & kept their mouths shut, it's the new wave of free loaders & wasters that's been pouring into the city/country since around 1997 that's been the problem.
and whether you like it or not there's been too much immigration now. it's gone too far, even the immigrants from the 50's, 60's & 70's will tell you that you dipstick
1.36 Timberland? LOL
Much better back then before all the diversity we never asked for....
Before Africans arrived
There was a thriving African and Caribbean community in Leeds in the 1960's but there are always those who post on the internet who are more than happy to show their ignorance.
great film but i prefer leeds now it looks sad and grimey
Paul James nah now it just seems all full of chavs
@@BH-pv8ec You're right, theres some downright feral degenerate trash in Leeds today