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Posted: Mon 21 Jan, 2008 9:14 pm
by chameleon
LS1 wrote: ton wrote: Oh My God! Nobody else seems to remember that snake, I was beginning to think I was making it up! What year was it? My memories are quite vague but I remember really loving it and wanting my Dad to take me there every time we went to town. Must have been at least 1985-6 as I remember it as a young child...Anyone any other offers? Our son used to make a take-over bid for it and our daughter was just capable of negotiating it so that would be around '88.
Posted: Tue 22 Jan, 2008 12:12 pm
by Mork of Ork
Yeah it will have been the mid to late 80's as I always laiked on it as a nipper.
Posted: Sun 23 Mar, 2008 5:06 pm
by riclam
if you look on
http://maps.live.com/ you can see remains of skyway and follow where it went
Posted: Sun 23 Mar, 2008 5:14 pm
by fevlad
ton wrote: Oh My God! Nobody else seems to remember that snake, I was beginning to think I was making it up! What year was it? My memories are quite vague but I remember really loving it and wanting my Dad to take me there every time we went to town. it was near mothercarethere was also a dome with a clock that round it-very unusual.I think the shops are far better now in the mall than they were.has anyone noticed that the branches of H samuel are gradually disappearing?the co op had a nice cafe on the top floor.
Posted: Sun 23 Mar, 2008 5:19 pm
by riclam
the co op had a nice cafe on the top floor. i remember that and the toy departmnet with santahttp://
www.flickr.com/photos/danielrobot/23262 ... 048827351/ the skywalk or most of it
Posted: Sun 23 Mar, 2008 6:17 pm
by Chrism
I lived in Leeds for 50 years and I can honestly say I have NEVER seen the big wooden snake.
Posted: Tue 25 Mar, 2008 10:12 am
by Si
You haven't lived, mate!
Posted: Thu 27 Mar, 2008 8:39 pm
by A-M
I'm 24 and remember playing on it - very bizarre structure and probably nowadays some PC busibody would instruct it to be smashed to bits on grounds of health and safetyI would have only been around 5 or 6 at the time so it's one of those things I thought i'd imagined....until I saw this threadOn a sidenote, I always thought there used to be miniture red buses in glass cabinets on The Headrow - does anyone know if these actually existed?Joined the forum today, and think it's absolute quality
Posted: Wed 02 Apr, 2008 3:51 am
by corsasi
thanks for bringing this snake up. i had totally forgotten about it until i read this.i remember being really scarred of it when my mum took me to play in it the first time, and i wouldnt go in it lol.but then i loved it when i eventually went through and must have spent hours on a saturday playing in it (for being good whilst my mum was doing shopping lol)it did just disappear though wich was strange. does anyone have any photos of it anywhere?
Posted: Thu 03 Apr, 2008 6:17 pm
by exiled in essex
The walkway that came out of the Bond Street centre and ran in front of the Norwich Union building and so on actually had a name - it was called 'East Parade Walk' (I'm pretty sure of this but correct me if I'm wrong). I remember finding it with a friend one day and exploring it! It had areas with benches and I used to sit up there and have my lunch when I worked in the city centre, aged 16.