Leeds is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by population) in England, after London and Birmingham
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@bethlane96427 ай бұрын
I'm from East Leeds born and bred and although I now live down South I will always be proud if being a Loiner❤
@Mum60 Жыл бұрын
Lovely memories, and wonderful-looking lady. I lived in streets like these for some of my childhood and when I first got married for a first temporary home to be rehoused. Lived on housing estate when I lived at home before marriage. Were poorer, the people in these houses but some lovely people, people cared more about each other.
@codzy3532 Жыл бұрын
neat old photos captured in time love it 😊❤👍
@TheDAT9 Жыл бұрын
The Corn Exchange still black with soot before it was cleaned. I remember the colours of Leeds on a dull cloudy day with black buildings. I remember going to Roundhay Park on a sunny day fishing for sticklebacks.
@walkerswrath1026 Жыл бұрын
So much cleaner than today. People respected English city's then.
@pauljames12588 ай бұрын
no one took pictures of the rubbish back in the day pal it was still dirty in certain areas and if you wanted anything removing you just left it to the binmen or put it on one of the many slum clearing sites
@roymcnicholas4825 Жыл бұрын
It may be a old victorian erea but look how clean and tidy the streets are people had pride back then I grew up in the 60s in a erea just like it
@chrisliversidge10709 ай бұрын
I grew up in East Leeds in the 60's everyone watched out for each other, no muggins, the only drugs were aspirin, how things have changed, fair fights as boys were fair fights, no knives, no graffiti, and if you came home with a copper, then god help you from you Mam and Dad
@user-mu1nm4jw7p2 ай бұрын
I'm from Leeds. I loved it and love it now
@pauljames12588 ай бұрын
Depressing so much brighter and vibrant now
@Marty-hu7rw Жыл бұрын
Love that thanks ,Ena Sharples days ,old terraced streets before pvc ,working class life in the 60s thanks .
@Gunnar_Gunnarson Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@ronaldwilkin56628 ай бұрын
Look at these streets look hardly any rubbish lying around people had pride in there home even when they had nothing
@ingridredfern5065 Жыл бұрын
I loved the 60s great music , fashion and jobs were plentiful.England exists no longer.
@martinheath5947 Жыл бұрын
This is the privilege that the iPhone generation whines about today demanding apology and reparations
@madeinbanat3534 Жыл бұрын
People in the 60s were privileged themselves compared to their grandparents and great grandparents in the Victorian era. It's all relative
@obscurazone6 ай бұрын
This is post war Leeds, when the "boomer" generation was still young teenagers. My family came from these streets. Dad in particular (born in 1945) a relative slum up in the Leylands. But he was able to establish a thriving auto business (with an extremely affordable bank loan) and bought his first house by the age of 28. Both those things are almost unthinkable opportunities afforded to young people in 2024. The "point" of your comment, was to say that this clip clearly shows an under privileged population, and that todays generation don't have a clue what life was actually like. But what you're clearly very ignorant of, is that hard work really did pay back then and you could actually build yourself a decent and comfortable life if you applied yourself. It doesn't matter how hard you work these days, it is extraordinarily difficult to get ahead as a young person. THAT is the point todays young generations are making.
@obscurazone5 ай бұрын
@maxwellboyne2770 Erm, you might not understand this, but not everyone wants the kind of business you describe (i.e selling a product through omni channels). Also, you might not understand this, but Brexit has raised huge barriers on export (all export, but certainly for new/small business) in the UK. It is exponentially more difficult now, to do any kind of trade in and out of the UK that involves supplies coming in from Europe, and selling through to Europe. And before you yap on about "The world being bigger than Europe" - Only an imbecile would think putting barriers in front of your nearest neighbor/customer makes any economic business sense. So no, if you think setting up a business nowadays in the UK is easy, whilst simultaneously living in economic conditions akin to the turn of the last century, you're absolutely deluded. Back in my parents era, a family of four people could easily exist (flourish even) on a very modest single income. Absolutely impossible to do that now. Most people are simply trying to survive in the UK nowadays. Setting up a business, of any kind, is nothing but a pipe dream now for most people.
@allotmentuk13033 ай бұрын
@@obscurazone i also came from those streets I passed those steps with the Tetley advert on its gable to a house further along for piano lessons. I was born 1939 not a slum house a decent back to back in a decent street went to building collage became a surveyor worked all over the UK and abroad bought my first house at the age of 28. Retired in a nice leafy village in East Sussex with a view of the South Downs and the Glynbourne Estate. My wife came from a similar background. Our children had a totally different background went to University and became employed in good professions. Grandchilldren have no idea of street living in the North I endorse obscurazone comment It doesn't matter how hard you work these days, it is extraordinarily difficult to get ahead as a young person. Unless of course if you live in the South and went to a Public School. Leeds is the best UK City
@fazfinisher5598 Жыл бұрын
Poor but clean and tidy, wish we could go back to these times.
@franceskronenwett35395 ай бұрын
The only good thing about these old streets was the absence of litter and traffic. Kids could play in the streets without the fear of being run over.
@suesmith436610 ай бұрын
Love this better era better society.
@sandrafinbar Жыл бұрын
Love these old street scenes.
@andybrown3514 Жыл бұрын
Morals and standards were different back then I guess..
@dismalfinance3002Ай бұрын
Leeds in the 1960s lost several historic elements, including notable Victorian architecture and traditional markets, due to modernization and urban redevelopment. Iconic buildings and old neighborhoods were often demolished to make way for new commercial and residential projects, altering the city's historic landscape and community character. This period of change marked a significant shift in the city's architectural and cultural heritage.
@Laura55sere Жыл бұрын
Imagine these photos in colour, not so glum .
@ramassad1252 Жыл бұрын
The best city in the world
@hmq9052 Жыл бұрын
Lol. It looks appalling
@ramassad1252 Жыл бұрын
@@hmq9052 have you been in Leeds before?
@hmq9052 Жыл бұрын
@@ramassad1252 Yes. I lived there for a while.
@johnmackintosh395210 ай бұрын
@@hmq9052 your probably from Manchester say no more
@jackthelad53665 ай бұрын
Too right pal👍
@kenstevens506510 ай бұрын
If the average person around then, now dead and buried came forward to today I often wonder what they would think.
@davetodd616310 ай бұрын
What’s the music?
@LondonPower9 ай бұрын
i a m traveler also
@damiandexter18956 ай бұрын
I'm making a film about Leeds, and would love to use some of your photos please. Did you take them yourself?
@davidwoodcock1392 ай бұрын
Anyone notice there’s no rubbish in the streets and no cars cluttering the place up
@bsport131 Жыл бұрын
Harder but better times and not BAME insight
@frankbarrow7210 Жыл бұрын
Music to slit your writs by! Who chose this?
@Gunnar_Gunnarson Жыл бұрын
Er.....I did..........
@michaelholmes4374 Жыл бұрын
Better times what has happened to our country stupid governments have done this
@maureenharper3736 Жыл бұрын
Those were happy days no murders kidnapping, very little crime..it seems our country has gone from us forever...
@franceskronenwett35395 ай бұрын
Don't forget that these houses had no bathrooms, an outside toilet and many lacked hot water. Housewives were just overworked drudges back then.
@big.cheese.0076 ай бұрын
Please, please play happy music. These pictures are celebrations, not morbid. ❤
@normanhuntersmith66925 ай бұрын
Oh for the Days when people took pride in their community environment . Notice how cleaning and lacking of the general rubbish and plastic that people now feel it’s okay to discard wherever they choose.
@easydrive366211 ай бұрын
A city of 2 halfs now, there are many areas that are now immigration shitholes but the city centre is undergoing massive growth with endless skyscraper buildings under construction and the north of the city is very wealthy
@kenstevens506510 ай бұрын
Skyscrapers but for who, even if for office space it's easily converted to residential. It seems without asking the ordinary people the Elites have decided we have a duty to house the world. It's just the same building boom down the overcrowded M1 in Nottingham and most other big UK towns and cities.
@tonybaloney4195 Жыл бұрын
No money but great times as a young lad
@derekwilkinson6888 ай бұрын
Ee by gum a reet luvd dat!
@jackthelad53665 ай бұрын
What accent wa’ that meant to be cos it certainly wasn’t leeds yer div
@derekwilkinson6885 ай бұрын
@@jackthelad5366 Leeds born n bread in the 60's pal!! You must be the diluted brigade
@jackthelad53665 ай бұрын
Born in the 60s myself lived in leeds 9 all my life now run along yer doylem
@aidenwrenn53422 ай бұрын
I was born in a back-to-back house like those seen in the film. It was shit.
@tonivaripati5951 Жыл бұрын
F*cking Nightmare!
@TheSeafordian Жыл бұрын
I prefer Sheffield.
@johnmackintosh395210 ай бұрын
Leeds will piss allover Sheffield Leeds is a wonderful city