Majestic Cinema

[uncle mick]

Geordie-exile wrote: uncle mick wrote: It looks like it was only there from June 1916The recruiting office was in City Square. It moved there from Hannover Square in June 1916 when conscription was brought in. A total of 82,000 men from Leeds enlisted. Copied from herehttp://www.projectinspire.kk5.org/#/wartime-le ... 4538384222     And gone by 1919:http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL Am I losing the plot ?? Where is The Black Prince in that photo ??EDIT: Yes I am losing the plot the Black Prince would be out of shot on the right of the photo.Similar view today: http://goo.gl/maps/nk6on    

[Phallica2000]

You know, having spent my entire 30 years in Leeds I have never once been inside that particular building.

[biofichompinc]

Phallica2000 wrote: You know, having spent my entire 30 years in Leeds I have never once been inside that particular building. For people of a certain age from in and around Leeds you would be able to find out if they had ever been in the Majestic by asking them the following simple question......'Have you ever seen "The Sound of Music" at the pictures?'

[cnosni]

Si wrote: Thanks Mick. One of my great granfathers probably enlisted there in 1916. It would have been before that Si for him to have been with the Dukes at Serre in July 16,or is it another great grandad?.Did you find his enlistment papers by the way?

[cnosni]

uncle mick wrote: It looks like it was only there from June 1916The recruiting office was in City Square. It moved there from Hannover Square in June 1916 when conscription was brought in. A total of 82,000 men from Leeds enlisted. Copied from herehttp://www.projectinspire.kk5.org/#/wartime-le ... 4538384222     I wonder where in Hanover Square,my greta uncle and grandad would have enlisted there.

[Si]

cnosni wrote: Si wrote: Thanks Mick. One of my great granfathers probably enlisted there in 1916. It would have been before that Si for him to have been with the Dukes at Serre in July 16,or is it another great grandad?.Did you find his enlistment papers by the way? Hi Chris. No, it's another great grandad - Frederick Firth Glendenning. He joined the West Yorkshire Regiment in (I think) 1916. I've recently found his medals. I think I may have posted a picture of them on here before somewhere. Liits and yourself replied ISTR.I'll put them on again for your interest.I also posted a group picture of WWI WYR soldiers once, believing that one of them may have been a boyfriend of my great aunt May's. However, I now think that one of the soldiers may have been Frederick, her father.Ooops, sorry. They've gone a bit big!        

[uncle mick]

18th September 1908.Waste land at corner of City Square and Wellington Street. Future Site of Majestic. The recruiting office on the site of the Majestic demolished 19195th October 1919. Expanse of road to south edge of City Square. Groups of men are standing in the road. Some charabancs are parked on street. Wellington Street to left of photo. In the background is the site for the new Majestic building. Quebec Street to the right.Majestic cinema which opened in June 1922Pics put together for reference        

[Cardiarms]

Do you think, when they built the majestic with that lovely white facing stone, that there were some grumpy old men looking on, saying "Eejits, it'll be black in 18 months."

[BLAKEY]

The October 1919 picture is most interesting, and a little puzzling too. The charabancs appear to actually be proper enclosed buses with solid roofs and permanent body pillars, but this is very early for such vehicles - I thought the livery seemed very like Samuel Ledgard's colours of the time, but his first machines of that type entered service in December 1919 prior to which he had true charabancs - another of those mysteries lost in time.It is fascinating to see that the familiar, well familiar to we old gimmers anyhow, Bairstow's newsagents and barbers is already there on the corner of Aire Street and Wellington Street. It was in that shop that I first experienced the weird, or so it seemed, procedure of "do you want the ends singeing ??" Allegedly this treatment made the hair stronger and prevented loss - if ONLY the Trade Descriptions Act had been in being then I could have made a bit of brass from a claim !!

[Si]

I assume it's no accident that the Cenotaph's original position was in front of the site of the recruiting office?