Leodis latest Belle Isle photographs

Old Tram Lines, Belle Isle Road, looking north towards the City Centre

4th October 2009. Image shows road works on Belle Isle Road exposing the old tram lines. The view looks north towards Hunslet and Holbeck and beyond to the City Centre. The M1 pas...

Old Tram Lines, Belle Isle Road

4th October 2009. View of road works on Belle Isle Road. The work has exposed the old tram lines which have been disused since the 1950s. Belle Isle Circus used to be the site of ...

Skelton Grange power Station.

Ist August 1983. View of Skelton Grange Power Station looking from Belle Isle towards Stourton. The street in the foreground with parked car is Winrose Grove. In the middle distan...

Belle Isle Road, tram no.268

Undated. View showing tram no.268, an English Electric-built Middleton Bogie dating from 1933-35, at a stop on Belle Isle Road.

Belle Isle Road, The Grey Goose

November 2008. View of The Grey Goose public house on Belle Isle Road, closed at the time for restoration.

Belle Isle Road, The Grey Goose

November 2008. View of Belle Isle Road showing the Grey Goose public house, closed at the time for restoration. A bus shelter can be seen on the left.

Belle Isle Circus, roofs of housing

Undated. Image shows the roofs of housing on Belle Isle Circus. At this time these maisonettes were undergoing a programme of refurbishment and renovation.

Belle Isle Circus, numbers 66 to 80

Undated. Image shows, from left to right, numbers 80 to 66, Belle Isle Circus. Off camera, left, is Belle Isle Road. At this time the maisonette council properties, each containin...

St. John & St. Barnabas Church, interior view

c1945. Image shows the interior of the Catholic Church of St. John & St. Barnabas, located in Belle Isle Road.

Belle Isle Library, Aberfield Gate

1996. View of Belle Isle Branch Library on Aberfield Gate, off Belle Isle Road. The building, dating from 1965, also incorporates a clinic, seen on the left here. A car park is se...

Belle Isle Library, Aberfield Gate

1996. View of Belle Isle Library, situated on Aberfield Gate off Belle Isle Road, showing steps leading up to the entrance. This branch was opened in 1965.

Belle Isle Library, Aberfield Gate

1996. View of Belle Isle Branch Library on Aberfield Gate, off Belle Isle Road. This library was opened in May 1965 in a building which also incorporates a clinic.

South Leeds High School, Middleton Road

2007/8. Demolition has begun on South Leeds High School, also remembered as Merlyn Rees and Belle Isle County Secondary School. For a period in the 1970s it was a middle school, c...

South Leeds High School, Middleton Road

2007/8. Image shows South Leeds High School after its closure in 2006. It was opened c1967 when it was known as Belle Isle County Secondary School. Many people will remember it as...

South Leeds High School, Middleton Road

2007/8. View from Middleton Road of the former Belle Isle County Secondary School built c1967, South Leeds High School. After several changes of name and organisation (Belle Isle ...

South Leeds High School, Middleton Road

2007/8. View of South Leeds High School in 2006 after demolition had begun. Depending on their era ex pupils will remember it as Belle Isle County Secondary School (from c1967), B...

South Leeds High School, Middleton Road

2007/8. Image shows the demolition of old buildings at South Leeds High School, Middleton Road. The school opened as Belle Isle County Secondary School in c1967. It ceased to oper...

South Leeds High School, Middleton Road

2007/8. View of South Leeds High School, in Middleton Road, originally Belle Isle County Secondary, built c.1967. Ex-pupils of the 1970s will remember it as Belle Isle Middle Sch...

South Leeds High School, Middleton Road

2007/8. Image shows South Leeds High School which has seen several name changes and reorganisations since it was built as Belle County Secondary School c 1967. In the 1970s it bec...

Belle Isle Library, exterior view

1998. View of Belle Isle Branch Library, situated off Aberfield Gate, which opened in May 1965. This view shows the ramped access at the side. A car is parked outside.

Belle Isle Working Mens Club, Belle Isle Road

Wilson, Gren

2005. Image shows the new red brick Belle Isle Working Mens Club located in Belle Isle Road.

Belle Isle Working Mens Club, Belle Isle Road

Wilson, Gren

2005. View of the newly built Belle Isle Working Mens Club. It has a chairman's rostrum and stage, five bars, a family room and serves food. It was fitted out by the Dewsbury firm...

Belle Isle Road

Wilson, Gren

2005. View of the dual carriageway Belle Isle Road, looking in the direction of the City Centre. It is a potential corridor for the route south from the city of the proposed Leeds...

St. John & St. Barnabas Church, Belle Isle Family Centre, Belle Isle Road

Wilson, Gren

2005. View of the entrance to St. John & St. Barnabas Church and Belle Isle Family Centre. The brick built church dates from the 1930s, when it replaced two other churches. The be...

St. John & St. Barnabas Church, entrance to Belle Isle Family Centre

Wilson, Gren

2005. Image shows the Church of St. John & St. Barnabas , built in brick in the 1930s. Before the 2nd World War the undercroft was used for schooling and social events. In 1998 lo...

Windmill, Windy Hill

Allison Todd

Undated Image shows a windmill and stone built house in a field off Middleton Road. A mill has stood on this site since the 15th centuary, however it has been rebuilt when the or...

Belle Isle Cottages nos. 1, 2, Rear View

Gibson, Rose

8th June 1950 Image shows the rear of a row of terraced cottages. The ground floor of the properties are obscured by overgrown bushes and grasses. On the right clothes can be seen...

Belle Isle Cottages no. 1

Gibson, Rose

8th June 1950 Image shows a close up detail of partially open sash windows on number 1 Belle Isle Cottages. Behind can be seen an overgrown grassed area.

Belle Isle Cottages no. 1

Gibson, Rose

8th June 1950 Image shows a brick built terraced cottage with sash windows. The front door is open and a chair is just visible in the darkness of the house. A bicycle leans agains...

Belle Isle Cottages nos. 1, 2

Gibson, Rose

8th June 1950 Image shows two brick built cottages with sash windows. This row helped make up the hamlet of Old Belle Isle, a simple row of cottages built by Brandling in 1793-4 a...

Old Belle Isle Cottages

Gibson, Rose

Undated, View looks across the tiny hamlet of Old Belle Isle. Made up of less than 30 cottages, the village lay between Belle Isle Beck and Middleton Colliery tramway to the left ...

Old Belle Isle Cottages

Gibson, Rose

Undated, View looks along a row of cottages which were originally built as housing for colliery workers in 1794. This row, along with two others made up the hamlet of Old Belle Is...

Old Belle Isle Cottages

Gibson, Rose

Undated, In the foreground of this view is a partially demolished block of two outside toilets. Moving back is the gable end of a row of cottages with a narrow alleyway giving acc...

Old Belle Isle Cottages

Gibson, Rose

Undated, View shows the backs of a row of late 18th century cottages in the hamlet of Old Belle Isle. The gable end of the row, which is supported with two buttresses shows that t...

Old Belle Isle Cottages

Gibson, Rose

Undated, The hamlet of Old Belle Isle was made up of three rows of cottages situated between Belle Isle Beck and Old Run Road. The properties in view were built in 1794 by Charles...

Old Belle Isle Cottages, Waterloo Row

Gibson, Rose

Undated, View looks onto the backs of properties on Waterloo Row which was one of three rows of cottages which made up the hamlet of Old Belle Isle. A Yorkshire Evening News artic...

Old Belle Isle Cottages

Gibson, Rose

Undated, The hamlet of Old Belle Isle was built in the late 1700s by Charles Brandling for workers at the nearby Middleton Colliery. The property in this view made up the bottom r...

Old Belle Isle Cottages, Waterloo Row

Gibson, Rose

Undated, View shows a row of six brick built cottages on Waterloo Row which were part of the hamlet of Old Belle Isle. This view looks from Old Run Road in the direction of Belle ...

Old Belle Isle Cottages, Waterloo Row

Gibson, Rose

Undated, The hamlet of Old Belle Isle was made up of three rows of around 24 cottages, situated just off the South West side of Old Run Road. The houses were unnumbered and up unt...

Old Belle Isle Cottages

Gibson, Rose

Undated, View looks onto the backs of cottages which were situated in the hamlet of Old Belle Isle. The area which was Old Belle Isle is now occupied by the South Leeds Stadium an...

Dixon's Farm, Primrose Hill

Gibson, Rose

Undated, Dixon's Farm was situated near Belle Isle Circus and had been known as Holy Waters. View shows several people standing outside the farmhouse to the left and a cow to the ...

Windmill, Middleton Road

Allison Todd

1930 Image shows a disused derelict windmill located in a field in Belle Isle on Middleton Road. There had been a mill on this area for many years, with mentions in directories go...

Belle Isle Library

Gibson, Rose

1965, Situated off Aberfield Gate, this library opened in May 1965. It replaced a part time branch which had been located in the crypt of St John and St Barnabas Church, on the op...

Belle Isle Road, Tram

Battes, Louise

View showing tram no 160 passing under Railway Bridge on route 26 Swinegate.

Orion Drive

Battes, Louise

17th March 1937. View of Mowatts store on corner of Orion Drive with Middleton Road.

Orion Drive, no. 2

Battes, Louise

17th March 1937. View of the shop premises of F Mowatt, fish and chips shop and A and L Mowatt grocery store at 2 and 4 Orion Drive.

Orion Drive, A & L. Mowatt

Gibson, Rose

30th December 1938. View of Grocery shop premises of A & C. Mowatt at number 2 Orion Drive. Middleton Road can be seen on the right.

Belle Isle

Gray, Catherine

C1890. View of Belle Isle by William Carrick, photographer. Includes figure leaning on fence.

Belle Isle, Quarry

Gibson, Rose

1900. View of part of old quarry at Belle Isle, shows quarry face with wooden fencing along the top. A man and a boy are seated beside a footpath running beside the quarry.

Orion Drive

Gibson, Rose

8th July 1937. View of number 6 Orion Drive owned by Ernest Steel, dairyman. Detached house with bay windows, addition to the side of the property is the dairy produce available c...