Cattle running wld in Leeds

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BLAKEY wrote: [quotenick="chameleonStrange how time plays tricks with all our memories. With respect, I seem to have a strong impression that the doors were a dismal faded matt maroon or burgundy colour. On reflection I think you may be right Blakey, certainly at one time - the other favorite colour of Leeds! Certainly there were two or three stone steps up to each from the footpath too I think. Memeory wise, I was quite young thenLucky you chameleon - as the years speed by (74 next) I'm begin to think I've never been young !! Well, middling Blakey - somedays feel much older than others but remember tatties at 5lb / shilling and fish 'n chips for 1/3 and thruppnie half to town on the tram

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chameleon wrote: BLAKEY wrote: [quotenick="chameleonStrange how time plays tricks with all our memories. With respect, I seem to have a strong impression that the doors were a dismal faded matt maroon or burgundy colour. On reflection I think you may be right Blakey, certainly at one time - the other favorite colour of Leeds! Certainly there were two or three stone steps up to each from the footpath too I think. Memeory wise, I was quite young then Lucky you chameleon - as the years speed by (74 next) I'm begin to think I've never been young !! Well, middling Blakey - somedays feel much older than others but remember tatties at 5lb / shilling and fish 'n chips for 1/3 and thruppnie half to town on the tramYou've not gone back that far Cham! i can remember fish and chips on Winchester Rd, Armley at 3 old pence,penn'orth o' chips and a fish at tuppence! I think y our right about the colour of the abbatoir doors,Blakey but you could hardly see the colour as they we generally covered in a grey dust as I recall!
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stutterdog wrote: chameleon wrote: BLAKEY wrote: [quotenick="chameleonStrange how time plays tricks with all our memories. With respect, I seem to have a strong impression that the doors were a dismal faded matt maroon or burgundy colour. On reflection I think you may be right Blakey, certainly at one time - the other favorite colour of Leeds! Certainly there were two or three stone steps up to each from the footpath too I think. Memeory wise, I was quite young then Lucky you chameleon - as the years speed by (74 next) I'm begin to think I've never been young !! Well, middling Blakey - somedays feel much older than others but remember tatties at 5lb / shilling and fish 'n chips for 1/3 and thruppnie half to town on the tramYou've not gone back that far Cham! i can remember fish and chips on Winchester Rd, Armley at 3 old pence,penn'orth o' chips and a fish at tuppence! I think y our right about the colour of the abbatoir doors,Blakey but you could hardly see the colour as they we generally covered in a grey dust as I recall! You lot are good for my ego - even if at times I feel more your apparent ages!!

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chameleon wrote: stutterdog wrote: chameleon wrote: BLAKEY wrote: [quotenick="chameleonStrange how time plays tricks with all our memories. With respect, I seem to have a strong impression that the doors were a dismal faded matt maroon or burgundy colour. On reflection I think you may be right Blakey, certainly at one time - the other favorite colour of Leeds! Certainly there were two or three stone steps up to each from the footpath too I think. Memeory wise, I was quite young then Lucky you chameleon - as the years speed by (74 next) I'm begin to think I've never been young !! Well, middling Blakey - somedays feel much older than others but remember tatties at 5lb / shilling and fish 'n chips for 1/3 and thruppnie half to town on the tram You've not gone back that far Cham! i can remember fish and chips on Winchester Rd, Armley at 3 old pence,penn'orth o' chips and a fish at tuppence! I think y our right about the colour of the abbatoir doors,Blakey but you could hardly see the colour as they we generally covered in a grey dust as I recall! You lot are good for my ego - even if at times I feel more your apparent ages!!Well, it's good to know that we're appreciated.Your making me feel good now!
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raveydavey wrote: I've heard that Boar Lane on a Saturday night is still a bit of a meat market, if you know what I mean... Oh that IS good news ravey - it will save that tiresome trek all the way to Pontefract Lane Wholesale Market for one's requirements     
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"tilly"]I must say i had to look twice at the photograph i dont remember it looking like that but then im going back fifty years ago.    

I remember nearly 70 years ago we had trouble sometimes alighting from the Tram ouside the bus station on our way to school because of sheep / cows, bulls being driven to the slaughterhouse from Marsh Lane railway sidings and the animals being spooked i would think by the blood smell. Although the placw was basically was the same as in the picture i am convinced it was not quite so ornate

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"tilly"]I must say i had to look twice at the photograph i dont remember it looking like that but then im going back fifty years ago.    

I remember nearly 70 years ago we had trouble sometimes alighting from the Tram ouside the bus station on our way to school because of sheep / cows, bulls being driven to the slaughterhouse from Marsh Lane railway sidings and the animals being spooked i would think by the blood smell. Although the place was basically was the same as in the picture but i am convinced it was not quite so ornate. certainly the part one left of the picture , facing the Market was not like that.
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I lived just around the corner from what is now Crown Point Shopping Center.In my time it was a very big goods yard a lot of the cattle pigs sheep came into there by train I think they were driven down Black Bull Street to the slaughter house Black Bull Street that could be a big clue i wonder if this is were the name came from.? There was a pub at the beginning of the street called the Black Bull was
the pub named after the street or was the street named after the pub? ;)
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On the 1850 OS map the road is named, and there is a building where the Black bull stood, but the building is not named

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Thanks for your time checking the map chemimike it just hit me when writing the post about the name all the best SID.
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