http://www.leodis.net/ Leodis latest Stanningley photographs en-gb 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT Copyright: (C) Leeds City Council, see http://www.leodis.net for terms and conditions of reuse http://www.leodis.net/rss/ <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/13/2010427_170613.jpg" >11th February 1947. Image shows Beechwood Street, Stanningley, after a very heavy snowfall during the severe winter of 1947. A thick covering of snow has lodged on the rooftops a... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2010427_170613 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/64/20091230_169964.jpg" >21st May 1950. View showing two trams on Stanningley Road beside the Pavilion Cinema. On the left is no.245, a Horsfield built between 1930 and 1931, travelling on route 14. On th... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20091230_169964 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/58/20091230_169958.jpg" >18th January 1953. View showing tram no.225 on Town Street by the junction with Half Mile Lane towards the left and Leeds and Bradford Road on the right. Just visible on the far r... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20091230_169958 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/36/20091229_169936.jpg" >24th February 1953. Tram no.99 is seen at the junction of Town Street, Half Mile Lane, Leeds and Bradford Road and Stanningley Road. On the right is the Pavilion Cinema, showing t... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20091229_169936 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/32/20081224_168132.jpg" >August 1977. View of Wood Vine Street, off Bradford Road, showing one of the last gas lamps to survive in Stanningley, a pre-war Foster lantern. On the right are houses numbered ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20081224_168132 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/56/20081126_167956.jpg" >Undated. Image shows the members of the Mother's Union belonging to St. Thomas's Church in Stanningley Road. The tall lady on the left of the back wearing a hat, is Lillian Wincup... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20081126_167956 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/50/20081125_167950.jpg" >1955. Image shows the entrants to a fancy dress competition held at the summer fete of St. Thomas's church in Stanningley Road. Angie Matthews is dressed as a Quaker girl, second ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20081125_167950 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/44/20081125_167944.jpg" >1955. Image shows the three winners in the fancy dress competition held at St. Thomas's Church's Summer Fete in Stanningley Road. The little girl dressed as 'Little Bo Peep' on th... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20081125_167944 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/28/2007913_164728.jpg" >1904. Looking west along sunfield, showing the entrance to the Methodist Chapel Burial Ground on the right. Several people can be seen on the road. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007913_164728 Farsley Photographic Collection - Farsley Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/65/200666_161365.jpg" >2005. View of the single storey, stone built St. John's Methodist Church and Stanningley Youth and Community Centre located in Stanningley Road. A sign on the right advertises a c... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200666_161365 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/64/200666_161364.jpg" >2005. Image shows St. John's Methodist Church and Stanningley Youth and Community Centre in Stanningley Road. Properties in Bright Street can be seen to the right. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200666_161364 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/63/200666_161363.jpg" >2005. Image shows the Church of St. Thomas in Stanningley Road, close to the junction with Town Street. It was completed in 1841 in the Norman style with stone tiled pyramid spire... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200666_161363 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/62/200666_161362.jpg" >2005. View of the Church of St. Thomas which stands off Stanningley Road close to where it joins Town Street. The Churchyard can be seen in the foreground. The Church dates from 1... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200666_161362 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/70/2006125_160470.jpg" >2005. View of Stanningley Road showing the former Swinnow Grange Mills on the right. The mills were occupied for many years by woollen manufacturers, W. & T. Huggan Ltd. Nowadays ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2006125_160470 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/77/2006118_160377.jpg" >2005. View of the pavilion Business Centre in Stanningley Road, formerly the Pavilion Picture House. It was designed by Architect, J.P. Crawford of Albion Place and opened on the ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2006118_160377 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/72/2006118_160372.jpg" >2005. Image taken in Stanningley Road of the newly constructed Stanningley Fire Station (2003) addressed as number 637, Stanningley Road. The red brick building stands at the junc... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2006118_160372 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/69/2006118_160369.jpg" >2005. Image shows the new Stanningley Fire Station at number 637 Stanningley Road at the junction with Swinnow Lane (where the car can be seen). It was constructed in 2003. 74 Fir... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2006118_160369 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/50/20051214_160150.jpg" >Undated. An employee of George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd, located in Town Street, is engaged in work towards the war effort. He is using an abrasive machine to remove surplus paint fr... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051214_160150 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/49/20051214_160149.jpg" >Undated. An employee of George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd in Town Street is pressure testing 8 pounder bombs after welding. The work was carried out here during the years of World War ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051214_160149 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/48/20051214_160148.jpg" >Undated. Employees at George Cohen Sons & Co. Ltd., Town Street are operating a battery of six automatic welding cabinets, each given a letter of the alphabet. Four of the men are... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051214_160148 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/47/20051214_160147.jpg" >Undated. A war-time image showing an employee of George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd., in Town Street working at an automatic welding cabinet for 8 pounder bombs, one of a battery of six... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051214_160147 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/45/20051214_160145.jpg" >Undated. Image shows several of the war-time work-force of George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd. in Town Street. The man in the foreground is welding lugs on the engine mounting for Anson... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051214_160145 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/44/20051214_160144.jpg" >Undated. A war-time scene in the engineering works of George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd., Town Street. A large workforce of men and women are working on the rough forming of a 6 pounde... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051214_160144 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/43/20051214_160143.jpg" >Undated. An employee of George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd. is working on a Howitzer shell in this image dating from the Second World War. He is using a lathe to turn wavy bands in copp... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051214_160143 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/42/20051213_160142.jpg" >Undated. One of a series of photographs taken during the period of the second World War. George Cohen Sons & Co. Ltd., known at the time as the 'firm of 600', had a depot in Town ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051213_160142 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/41/20051213_160141.jpg" >Undated. War-time view of women working on Cleveland Automatic machinery to form the inside contour of 6 pounder anti-tank nose caps. They are employees of George Cohen, Sons & Co... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051213_160141 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/40/20051213_160140.jpg" >Undated. A woman is turning the outside contour of 6 pounder anti-tank nose caps on a 'Lo-swing' semi-automatic lathe. She is one of a large work force at George Cohen, Sons & Co.... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051213_160140 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/39/20051213_160139.jpg" >Undated. A woman in overalls is slitting tungsten carbide tips, an extremely hard metal requiring the use of diamond slitting wheels. The image dates from the 1940's during war ti... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051213_160139 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/38/20051213_160138.jpg" >Undated. Women workers at George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd, in Town Street, are clad in overalls and leather aprons as they undertake War-time work. This is a corner of the tungsten c... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051213_160138 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/37/20051213_160137.jpg" >Undated. Image shows a large group of men and women engaged in mounting engines for Anson aircraft on nacelles. It demonstrates what was happening nationwide during the Second Wor... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051213_160137 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/36/20051213_160136.jpg" >Undated. Two women can be seen fixing the instrument bulkhead to the nacelle for and Anson aircraft. They are wartime employees of George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd. in Town Street. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051213_160136 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/35/20051213_160135.jpg" >Undated. Here, a female employee of George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd, Town Street can be seen welding the tubular framework of a nacelle for an Anson aircraft. She wears safety goggle... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051213_160135 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/34/20051212_160134.jpg" >Undated. In this image, a female employee of George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd. , Town Street, is marking aircraft parts in a Warner and Swasey turret lathe. She was part of a large wo... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051212_160134 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/33/20051212_160133.jpg" >Undated. Male and female employees of George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd, Town Street, are seated while welding small details for Anson aircraft. The image dates from the Second World W... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051212_160133 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/32/20051212_160132.jpg" >Undated. These women are war-time employees of George Cohen, Sons & Co. Ltd, located in Town Street. They are working with chucking lathes to turn 9.2" howitzer shells for the war... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20051212_160132 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/51/2005720_70814151.jpg" >C1945. View of two trams on Half Mile Lane. Houses can be seen in the background. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2005720_70814151 Wilson, Gren Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/65/2005512_65673465.jpg" >17th December 1980. View of Town Street showing No.71a, Eric Bailey, Scrap Metal Merchant, with scrap yard behind. To the left is the junction with Fowler's Place. An advertising ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2005512_65673465 Allison Todd Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/69/2005512_60732669.jpg" >17th December 1980. View looking north-east along Town Street. On the left is The Fleece public house. On the right are the premises of Eric Bailey, scrap metal merchants, with an... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2005512_60732669 Allison Todd Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/87/2005512_60026187.jpg" >17th December 1980. View of No.71a Town Street, the premises of Eric Bailey, Scrap Metal Merchant, seen from a side road just off Town Street, the latter being visible behind buil... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2005512_60026187 Allison Todd Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/17/2005512_96926517.jpg" >17th December 1980. View of Town Street showing, on the right, the works of George Cohen Machinery Ltd, Engineers & Machinery Merchants, and the Selson Machine Tool Co. Ltd. Cars ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2005512_96926517 Allison Todd Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/34/2005512_55984134.jpg" >17th December 1980. View of Town Street showing, on the right, the works of George Cohen Machinery Ltd, Engineers & Machinery Merchants, and the Selson Machine Tool Co. Ltd. Cars ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2005512_55984134 Allison Todd Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/00/2005114_198000.jpg" >19th September 1979 Image shows the large detached stone built front of the Pudsey Social Club facing onto Bradford Road. This building was formerly the Savoy Cinema, which opene... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2005114_198000 Allison Todd Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/10/20041210_67922610.jpg" >1970. View of the Savoy Cinema located at number 72 Bradford Road. The 1,000 seater cinema, designed by Bradford architect William Illingworth, opened on 17th September 1937. Th... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20041210_67922610 Allison Todd Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/69/20041210_22365969.jpg" >1970. View of the Pavilion Cinema on Stanningley Road. The 644 seater cinema was designed by Leeds architect J.P.Crawford and opened on Saturday 28th February 1920 with a showing ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20041210_22365969 Allison Todd Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/13/200454_47398013.jpg" >Undated A rear view of stone built terraced houses, numbers 29, left and 30, right, Vernon Place. Number 30 is the end of a row of terraced properties which differ in height and ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200454_47398013 Gibson, Rose WYAS Collection - West Yorkshire Archives Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/03/200454_8535403.jpg" >Undated View of numbers 29 & 30 Vernon Place, the end of a row of stone built terraced houses with gardens. At the time, they were in the ownership of R.F. Winder Ltd. Number 30... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200454_8535403 Gibson, Rose WYAS Collection - West Yorkshire Archives Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/36/2004430_63584536.jpg" >Undated This cottage, number 19 Town Street now stands by itself after adjoining properties have been demolished. A large advertising sign for Danish Butter partially occupies th... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2004430_63584536 Gibson, Rose WYAS Collection - West Yorkshire Archives Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/87/2004430_53994387.jpg" >Undated Image shows a stone built cottage, number 19 Town Street which is still inhabited and owned at the time by Mrs L Swales. Adjoining properties on the right have been demol... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2004430_53994387 Gibson, Rose WYAS Collection - West Yorkshire Archives Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/31/2004216_13879031.jpg" >1966. View of Primrose Hill School off Richardshaw Lane. On 28th January 1875 a school board for the Pudsey area met for the first time. Primrose Hill was one of the first schools... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2004216_13879031 Gibson, Rose Local Studies Collection - Central Library Stanningley <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/09/20031216_40057009.jpg" >Undated, View shows the back of number 46 Town Street. Property has a protruding wing section. Several dustbins can be seen in the foreground. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20031216_40057009 Gibson, Rose WYAS Collection - West Yorkshire Archives Stanningley