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Leeds Bridge, Bridge End

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17th October 1945. View looking south along Leeds Bridge to Bridge End. A man is walking along the Leeds Bridge and a boat is underneath. G. Angus and Co. Ltd. is on the right with a clock above it. Hick Brothers ironmongers, Charles Best and Son mill furnishers and J. Lax and Son leather merchants are on the left. The Adelphi Hotel is on the corner with Dock Street and Aire and Calder navigation is opposite. Tunstall and Co. roofing felt manufacturers, people and traffic are in the background.

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Dave Johnson

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The scene is almost unchanged today. Note the giant kettle on the wall of the ironmonger's premises on the left. (Whatever happened to that? It just vanished one day!)From an upper-storey end gable window of this building, Louis Le Prince took the world's first moving pictures in 1888.

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cassie

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The Adelphi Hotel was once the home of 2 Mayors of Leeds John and Thomas Micklethwaite and Dock Street was once called Simpsons Fold

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anne craven

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There was a good folk club upstairs on Sunday evenings in the 60's and 70's. The fish man used to visit regularly - health and safety wasn't an issue!

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Don Smith

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In the late 1940s and early 50s I used to go to The Adelphi Hotel, up stairs they had Bob Barkleys Jazz Band, Bob was the tuba player and Dicky Hawden on cornet, we had some good nights.

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anne-donsmith@shaw.ca

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Graham A. Schofield

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I remember sometime in the late 1950's or very early 1960's, seeing quite a large crowd of people gathered at this very spot, to watch police activity below. A man had committed suicide by jumping off the bridge at this point and drowning in the river.

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GrahamScho@AOL.com

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John Drake

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Just round the corner past the Adelphy, there used to be a bike shop which, I think, closed in the fifties. Can anybody remember the name and any other details.

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johndrake2007@yahoo.co.uk

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Peter Moore

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At the start of Leeds Bridge (just behind where this photo was taken was a Sports Outfitters by the name of Wainwrights. I remember when I was about 11 or 12 years of age my dad took me there to buy me my first proper leather football, I came out of the shop following in the steps of the person on this picture proudly bouncing my new ball, and if it haden't been for my dad being there the ball would have finished up in the River Aire as one bounce nearly took it over the parapet, that would be in about 1945/46.

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01-Dec-2008

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dipetmo@aol.com

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Raymond Jones.

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The landlord of the Adelphi in the early fifties was Mr Jack Wilkes a good landlord and a generous man.Raymond Jones.

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22-Mar-2009

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raynmavis@btinternet.com

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Chris Martin

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In the Late 70's early 80's there was a Bowie/Roxy night held at the Adelphi (upstairs) on Friday nights.

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11-Apr-2009

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chrisma5803@yahoo.co.uk

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brian thomas

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Re-Peter Moore's reminder of Wainwright's sports shop, I was given a new cricket bat for Xmas 1952 ! purchased from Wainwright's I had been gazing at it for months through the shop window. Autographed by Willie Watson Yorks. and England Cricketer he also had four England Caps at Football one of only 12 players ever to achieve this great distinction.

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11-Apr-2009

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helensdad@mac.com

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Ron Davies

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Terry Cooper who played in the Revie era for Leeds United, had a sports shop just out of shot on the left. I wonder if he took over the Wainwright shop.

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09-Feb-2010

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rondavies66@googlemail.com

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Loinerpete

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Rerry Cooper did indeed tahe over Wainwrights, i remember his famous white boots being in the window.

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04-Jun-2010

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Peter Moore

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With regards to the comments of Ron Davies, the sports shop Wainwrights was out of shot right and not left as he suggests. (June4/2010)

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04-Jun-2010

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dipetmo@aol.com

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