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Aerial View, Seacroft Ring Road, Swarcliffe Drive	Add comment Send webcard Add to album
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Description: 1964 In the bottom left corner of this view, the partially constructed Seacroft Ring road can be seen. Swarcliffe Drive runs from the top left corner towards the centre of the right edge, with Swarcliffe Avenue running from the middle of this road to the top right corner. Swarcliffe Primary School is visible towards the top of the view surrounded by playing fields and houses. User Comments: Name: Linda Blanchard Comment: I lived on Swarcliffe Bank from 1954 until going to college in 1969. My mother finally left in 2004 when she came to live wiht us in Devon. The new ring road, whilst an asset for traffic was a social barier. As a pupil at Parklands High School I was one of the few girls who had to cross the narrow pedestrian bridge against a massive flow of St Kevin,s boys heading in the opposite direction. The girls had a strict uniform code with the wearing of berets beingthe norm. St Kevins boys appoached the bridge with rulers drawn, would corner us flick to off our berets, if we were lucky then we could rescue them fter a twirl or two on the ruler. In extreme circumstances they would fly off into the path of a passing car. Email: Not displayed ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Alan Tate Comment: I agree with Linda, the ring road was cetainly a social barrier between swarcliffe and Seacroft. The ring road should`ve followed the cock beck route from the top of york road to Barwick road . This would`ve eliminated the " barrier" Even today from York road to Barwick road there are nothing but fields. With the major urban development going on in seacroft and swarcliffe we can safely say that the planning of the 60s was`nt really for the future but more for the short term. Email: Not displayed ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: David Andrew Edge Comment: Uhh, a girl that went to Parklands? I saw them, but never actually met one... Email: andrew@andrewedge.com ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Lynn Monaghan (as was) Comment: I lived with my mum, dad and two brothers at 33 Mill Green Place from 1954 until I married in 2979. Mum and dad carried on living their until the late 80s. Mill Green Place had a small green in the middle where we used to play "getting round the square" without being seen. I believe that small green has now been built on. Am I right? Email: Not displayed ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Kevin Craker Comment: I lived in Mill Green Close from 1953 to 1970 and went to Swarcliffe School.Moved to Hebden Approach in 1970.Mill green Close was a fanastic place to live.I remember the Ring Road beeen built,it really did split the area.After leaving Swarcliffe School i spent the rest of my school years at Foxwood (say no more on that subject).Mill Green Close had a green in the middle and we had many football/Cricket games after school and the summer hols. Email: Not displayed ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: John Hall Comment: I lived in Mill Green Close as well (No.37) from 1953 to 1965, and went to Swarcliffe school! I also remmber those das on the green laying footy, cricket and rounders. Some of the grown ups used tojoin in as well!! Great days. Date: 06-Dec-2008 Email: merrick10hall@btinternet.com ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Janice Comment: I lived at 30 Mill Green Close. 1955-1962. I went to Parklands infants & Swarcliffe junior. I have read with interest some of the comments. I remember Linda Baines @29. Carol Rogers @ 28 Graham & Gaynor Austin @ 27. Earnest & Pat Learoyd @ 31 Graham Shepherd @ 32. A large family called Crackers @ 33, they had a fat dog called Bessie (this also had a squeaky voice) Further up was Stanly Webster. Over the green was a large family called Richardson's. some of the children were called Patricia, Pamela, Douglas & Susie. Mr Richardson was a baker, his daughter Pat was my friend. I remember being given still warm fresh bread to eat. Most of the people mentioned would have been born around 1950. I have a brother Trevor (Inky)& sister Helen. One day I was walking home with Trevor. A group of boys were throwing stones at a cat that was tied to a tree in the middle of the green. Trevor told me to go in the house while he went to rescue the cat, I stayed where I could see. Trevor went to undo the cat, as he did so the boys carried on throwing stones. when the cat was released the boys then dragged Trevor to a hedge & pushed him into it. NICE BOYS eh? Also my memories of M.G.C. were spoiled by 2 of the families that were "bullish"& used inappropriate and bad language. We were there for 7 years before moving onto pastures greener. Date: 26-Jan-2009 Email: Not displayed ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Dianne Geldard Comment: My family moved to Mill Green Garth in 1962, just before they started the work on the dual carriageway. The flat we lived in looked out onto the carriageway. We moved away not long after it was finished. but I can still remember the awful subways and the smell of them, but they were the only way we could get to the Seacroft centre. I also remember the windmill, when there was people living there, and there were chickens and geese in the yard outside Date: 25-Jan-2010 Email: Not displayed ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: karen mosley was joyce Comment: i was born in millgreen close swarcliffe we lived at 18 with r mick,dave,debi and joanne what a street we had so much fun there bulldogs across rounders the silver jubillee party we was a close nit neighbourhood with the home with graham and clive charlie walker helen cross michelle rabie lovley memories there was maureen and eddie preston with carla carrie and dylan the nightens mathers carduses i can go on but in summer school hols we had a right good old time im now 49 and the memories of the street will never leave me !!!! Date: 07-Jun-2010 Email: mslypaul@aol.com ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Stephen Jones Comment: The comments about the ring road becoming a social barrier certainly resonate with me. I'm from south Leeds and well remember the social (and environmental) devastation caused in Hunslet/Beeston by the building of the M1 in the late 60s. No lessons were learned from this and Holbeck/Beeston were similarly devastated by the M621 less than a decade later. I think the slogan was 'Leeds: motorway city of the 70s'. Well, thanks for that ... Date: 11-Aug-2010 Email: Not displayed ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: Stewart Comment: I live at 25 Millgreen Close in the Childerens home. I loved it there, the green was ace for all the kids to play on. Really good memories. Thanks Mill Green Close. 21-Oct-2010 Date: 08-Nov-2010 Email: Not displayed ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: roger booth Comment: i used to live at 31 swarcliffe bank from 1952 till 1966 i lived next door to linda blanchard and used to be good friends with her brother john we were the first family to move into the bank and at first i had to go all the way over to the grange to go to school then moved to swarcliffe school when they built it we used to play in the woods opposite our house and the woods at the end of our street where it joined swarcliffe avenue i remember the shops on swarcliffe drive being built Date: 22-Feb-2012 Email: ________________________________________________________________________________ Name: jamie Anderson Comment: i lived on mill green close frm 1981 / 2003 i loved playing bulldogs and footy on the green i lived at no 28 i also used to muck around in the back ov the kids home there was a big tree we used to climb m,g,c was brilliant place to grow up Date: 27-Oct-2012 Email: Not displayed ________________________________________________________________________________
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