I'm pretty sure the view is of the junction of St Anne's Drive and St Michael's Lane, which crossed the railway over that narrow bridge to the right on its way to the practice pitch of old and the South Stand of course.

My Gran lived in Lumley Grove, a Victorian Back-to-back across the allotments to the left. There was a bakery over the bridge which issued a wonderful aroma, in front of which the railway embankment was damaged in a rare WW2 bombing raid.

Opposite the bakery is the start of the Ginnel leading along the back of the West Terrace.

Yup, both correct





When I was born we lived in a back-to-back on Lumley Road and then a year or so later moved further down Beechwood Crescent to a semi detached house near the garage and then just to complete our dizzy ascent to true poshness off to Cookridge in 1964, land of one car families (instead of one car streets) using a knife to eat your tea with and a cocktail cabinet in the sideboard.



The railway bridge has bittersweet memories because once when we were crossing it I heard a train coming on the tracks beneath, a steam train as they all were, and my mother held me up over the fence (on top of the wall) to watch it - big mistake - its a lesson lost in the mist of time now but you never lean over a bridge when a steam train is chuffing its way along underneath you - face full of hot ash is what you get, cried all the way to the shops

Here is the shot as it is today

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I think it's actually just a not very good pub (Bar Red) that serves Thai bar food.

Bar Red or more like 'Bar Dead' signs are still on the outside of the building. but a new temp banner is now hanging in the middle with a new name .... can't remember what it said when i passed it.

Bar Red



Some 'interesting' nights/mornings spent in there....

Was that the remains of your drink/dinner on the floor outside that i had to dodge every week...

Not me!

it was a nice aerial picture of the Headingley grounds from the 30s



but looks a bit copywrity

opps see bottom right hand corner

Its on the Leeds Back In The Day facebook group if anyone wants to see it.



Is this one of the photos that turned up recently from the 1940s where some random Ministry with random cash in the budget and a random RAF plane and hi-def camera after the war decided to photograph every square inch of the UK, then years later when no-one was bothered about the collection they offered it to all of the various counties in England for their own safe keeping and most of them refused except West Yorkshire ?



Can't even remember where I read that now - probably on this thread if I could be d looking.

A trip up Otley Road by tram in 1956, including views of Lawnswood roundabout before the roundabout existed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9plYEt88WBE

A trip up Otley Road by tram in 1956, including views of Lawnswood roundabout before the roundabout existed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9plYEt88WBE