@@peteradamson46 Peter I'm confused theres people in the comments who say the pictures are not Harehills , do you actually recognise any of the locations from your childhood ?
Beautiful images as they are, there is not one image from Harehills there, the nearest one is the North Leeds WMC and that was in Burmantofts or bordering Newtown which doesn't exist no more.
@@peteradamson46 Hi Peter If memory serves, you were one of the cleverest pupils at Roundhay during those years - and an engagingly modest one. Just one more question. I think I recall meeting you occasionally while I was on my Sunday morning paper round in the Sheepscar district while you were on yours. Might I be right? Best wishes Laurence
Hi Laurence, It's possible. I had several paper rounds but the Sunday morning one was with Birketts in Harehills - a long round that extended as far as the Bayswaters and Roseville school but not As far as Sheepscar. Maybe your round came that far north? I lived in Banstead Grove, now gone to make way for a park. Best wishes, Peter
Why and how is it that black and white pictures and photos of Leeds ,and even some colour ones ,within the pre 1970 period suggest poverty,deprivation and uniform misery and ugliness ..I was raised in seaforth road from 1946 ,attended school up from harehills road and church near there ..and never saw ,experienced or heard of such things ..they doubtless existed but didn't prevail in Leeds ..the mistake made,but often deliberate selection to serve some ideological position, is to equate blackened buildings and street scenes with starvation, and deprivation ..most houses were warm,clean and furnished ..most men were employed and in Leeds many women..in the clothing industry...Leeds has since the Victorian era escaped the worst effects of degradation evident in the ports and single heavy industry centres....it parallels the other myths of violence and criminality....there wasnt much or really any of this either.just wonderful,trustworty ,kind ,respectable, people
people we're just more dumb and less informed before the internet, don't mean that in a bad way and also the place was more serene back then, less piss poor trash from the third world & less people getting wasted on drugs and booze. the place was never perfect but it has never been more of a depressing scruffy shit hole than it is today!!!
Yes there were, I lived in Harehills Terrace from 1955 and some of our neighbours were black I went to Harehills CP school where I played with black girls both there and at Agnes Stewart school.
Yes there were, in Harehills anyway. These are not of Harehills, but a similar area. I was born in the large flat above 323a Roundhay Road in 1953. In 1956 we moved to Roundhay Grove. The family next door to us there were students from Ghana and their baby daughter. They were training to be doctors. I was very sad when they returned to Accra.
Wonderful, here I am 67 years old and tears rolling. What a daft sod I am, but such memories!
Not daft at all. My wife cries whenever she watches it. Thank you for your comment.
I certainly cry every time I have to drive through harehills these days!!!.....it's a cess pit today
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@@peteradamson46 Peter I'm confused theres people in the comments who say the pictures are not Harehills , do you actually recognise any of the locations from your childhood ?
This was exceptionally good thank you for a very entertaining and nostalgic video. This is one video is one of my best I've watched mate.
This is a mixture of Meanwood and Burley.
The power station was on Kirkstall Road,
Beautiful images as they are, there is not one image from Harehills there, the nearest one is the North Leeds WMC and that was in Burmantofts or bordering Newtown which doesn't exist no more.
To some of us it will always be Green road and never lincoln green road
MOLTO BELLO ED INTERESSANTE . ANCHE UN BEL REGALO DI NATALE PER LA PERSONA AMATA.
Grazie Giovanni. Mia moglie ed io abbiamo appena passati una splendida vacanza in Italia per celebrare il nostro 50 ° anniversario di matrimonio.
kids cricketers were playing in Victoria Place off Camp Road.
The pics look older. Feel like 1910s. Good video
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I am a big fan of Peter adamson sir
Where is Mr. Adamson now?
HI Peter. Were you a pupil at Roundhay School in the mid-fifties to early sixties?
Yes, from about 57 to 65.
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Hi Peter
If memory serves, you were one of the cleverest pupils at Roundhay during those years - and an engagingly modest one.
Just one more question. I think I recall meeting you occasionally while I was on my Sunday morning paper round in the Sheepscar district while you were on yours. Might I be right?
Best wishes
Laurence
Hi Laurence,
It's possible. I had several paper rounds but the Sunday morning one was with Birketts in Harehills - a long round that extended as far as the Bayswaters and Roseville school but not As far as Sheepscar. Maybe your round came that far north? I lived in Banstead Grove, now gone to make way for a park.
Best wishes,
Peter
One thing for sure, it doesn’t look like this now
hey peter how are you ?
Why and how is it that black and white pictures and photos of Leeds ,and even some colour ones ,within the pre 1970 period suggest poverty,deprivation and uniform misery and ugliness ..I was raised in seaforth road from 1946 ,attended school up from harehills road and church near there ..and never saw ,experienced or heard of such things ..they doubtless existed but didn't prevail in Leeds ..the mistake made,but often deliberate selection to serve some ideological position, is to equate blackened buildings and street scenes with starvation, and deprivation ..most houses were warm,clean and furnished ..most men were employed and in Leeds many women..in the clothing industry...Leeds has since the Victorian era escaped the worst effects of degradation evident in the ports and single heavy industry centres....it parallels the other myths of violence and criminality....there wasnt much or really any of this either.just wonderful,trustworty ,kind ,respectable, people
Also brought up in Harehills from 1946 - and I agree with all this.
Inner city poverty oozing from each image, people looked content though.
people we're just more dumb and less informed before the internet, don't mean that in a bad way and also the place was more serene back then, less piss poor trash from the third world & less people getting wasted on drugs and booze.
the place was never perfect but it has never been more of a depressing scruffy shit hole than it is today!!!
not harehills
No blacks or immigrants
mr cynical no nobheads either.
Yes there were, I lived in Harehills Terrace from 1955 and some of our neighbours were black I went to Harehills CP school where I played with black girls both there and at Agnes Stewart school.
Yes there were, in Harehills anyway. These are not of Harehills, but a similar area.
I was born in the large flat above 323a Roundhay Road in 1953. In 1956 we moved to Roundhay Grove. The family next door to us there were students from Ghana and their baby daughter. They were training to be doctors. I was very sad when they returned to Accra.