Great Story But A Few Corrections

A Memory of Cookridge.

The fields along Hospital Lane were for St Michael’s School in Leeds, next to the boys Grammar School - the boys had to get the bus up and change in the old stables!

Allan Bennetts family lived in the corner shop at the junction between Headingley Lane and Westwood Lane and his dads butchers shop was there

And
The Merryman family moved up the waste ground you had to walk across to the garage shops to the shops that are there now and ended up running the post office next to Holy Name Church

The path described was known as the Monks Path because the story was monks used to process from Fountains Abbey to Kirkstall
Abbey along that path.

As well as the 33 and 36 bus routes there was the 30 which wandered through the Ivesons and Raynels and then on to town !

Cookridge Hospital was a pioneering place for Radiotherapy in its earlier days. Next to it was The Ida Hospital, a much loved place for the elderly

St Paul’s Church and Holy Name Church were built in 1953. In 1969 the present St Paul’s Church was built and the original church became the church hall

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