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West Yorkshire memories
Forgotten Memories
I was born at N o6 Henconner Road, Leeds 7, on November 26th 1951. My primary school was Chapel Allerton County Primary, and I vaguely remember the trams running through Chapel Allerton as they passed the school. The tram depot was just a little further down the road. I remember the police station on the corner near the shops because we used to pass by on our way to the dinner-hall just round the corner, come rain or shine. The hall itself was (I think) a Methodist Chapel. We would be seated on one long bench, behind a high, long table, and were only allowed to move when told. Some sort of soft metal jugs full of water were on the table, along with the cutlery. There used to be an allotment at the end of Henconner Road, but now I think it belongs to Stainbeck Lane High School. Many a sunny afternoon I have wondered into the vast rows of cabbages, potatoes, beans and most of all peas, which we... Read more
Grandad's Young Sister Constance Norfolk Married at St Martin's Church in 1918
Although our family surname is Norfolk we all came originally from Yorkshire! Great-Grandad was James Henry Norfolk who was born in Dunkeswick, near Harewood, in 1845. He was the first of four generations of Norfolk family bank managers down to me, born 1945, exactly one hundred years later almost to the week! Great-Grandad had five children and the youngest was Constance Maud Norfolk, born in 1887 in Ilkley. Constance was the baby of the family arriving long after her parents' marriage in 1873. I have little knowledge of my Great-Aunt Constance apart from her getting married in 1918 at St Martin's Church in Potternewton to Norman Rostron although I have heard the family rumour of a tragic early death. St Martin's is the Church of England parish church just off Chapeltown Road, and was consecrated in 1881 for Potternewton parish so it was new when Constance was born and she would have been one of the early baptisms there. St Martin's Church is unusual because it... Read more
A Long Time
Born there in 1918, moved away in 1971. Had a lot of happy times plus not so happy, which is normal in life. Mr Heaps was the old schoolmaster, Miss Mings the lady teacher, many a slap with her butter slapper, a crime today, discipline in my time, no pussy footting as now. Age now 93, happy days.
The Norfolk Family Living in Adel And Harewood
Just look at this truly MAGNIFICENT arch over the church doorway. My own interest in this parish is because my family name is Norfolk and so many of my family were farmers, millers and general agicultural workers around Adel, Harewood and Dunkeswick going back to the early 1600s - and probably beyond.
Preparing For The Festival of Britain.
This photograph shows a Wednesday afternoon, early closing day, hence the low volume of traffic and few shoppers. The year is definitely 1951. On the left is myself and my apprentice electrician seen manhandling the long ladder outside William Timpson's shoe shop. The other people are just members of the public stopping for a chat. I worked for a company who for many years had the job of maintaining the electrical installations at the two Leeds branches of William Timpson, and on this occasion, to celebrate the 'Festival of Britain' in 1951, shops in the city centre were invited by the various trade organisations to enter a competition to find the best displayed shop. We were illuminating the upper part of the building which involved fixing a light fitting at the apex of each of the two dormer windows, shining downwards, and two lights fixed to the shop fascia facing upwards. The ladder only reached the lower part of the roof so you had to... Read more
Old Days
I was born in Quarry Hill Flats, it brings back a lot of memories.
As A Child.
As a child growing up in Hyde Park it still holds very fond memories for me...Woodhouse Moor it never seems to change that much as I visit there once or twice every 4yrs or so...and having moved out of the area some years ago and would love so much to move back into the area.
Is the old Lion still there up near to the tennis courts...in fact are they still there?
The old swings that used to be up near to the old lion remember them well.
Are the what looked like old concrete bathes with concrete tops on them still there.
They were near to the Queen Victoria statute....going back years now though.
The allotments... my mum used to have one..never forget as a child playing in them and finding a Penny Farthing...what I did with it I dont know... or can not remember.Ah the good old conker tree on Moorland road its still there I googled it...my dad would take us to the tree to get... Read more
