Wow I wish it was still how I remember it as a kid in 70s, 80s and 90s
@caleblindley7142
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video and good old Leeds. So many road works and cones though in this day and age.
@AMLDS7
3 жыл бұрын
It so tru its horrible going down the headrow on a bus towards town hall
@matthew1337
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir x
@runnerthemoose
4 жыл бұрын
Well done in mixing the Leeds Bridge footage in, for those who don't know that footage from the bridge is the worlds first "moving image" by the inventor of the movie camera. If the guy hadn't been assassinated (look it up) Leeds could very well have been the centre of the Movie industry.
@matthew1337
4 жыл бұрын
Didn't know he was assassinated!
@frogandspanner
3 жыл бұрын
@@matthew1337 It was the second moving image. The first is Roundhay Garden Scene. There are many suggestions surrounding le Prince's disappearance.
@chrisbradley1192
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting. Just did a bit of research. It seems Thomas Edison might have had a hand in this. This was around the time Edison and Nikolai Tesla were competing with different styles of electricity transmission, Edison favouring the DC method but with Tesla's more efficient AC method winning. Stakes were high back then (as I suppose they are still).
@retepcooper1756
3 жыл бұрын
I was going to add this too, but had no idea about his 'assassination'.
@frogandspanner
3 жыл бұрын
@@retepcooper1756 It was a suggestion that competitors threw him off a train. It has the air of Edison authenticity.
@MrLiquidator67
3 жыл бұрын
I used to love Leeds for shopping not anymore though.
@jma2722
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I love Leeds !
@easydrive3662
2 жыл бұрын
The one thing you notice straight away is how much clutter there is now, cones, signs, traffic calming measures, cycle lanes. That aside it does look far better and grander now our 3rd largest stand alone city, leeds!
@RichardCodes
Жыл бұрын
Such a pleasant surprise, the great Matthew Walker being shown to me on the KZitem home page
@My_man_G_UK
2 жыл бұрын
Work very well done mate!! Love learning history of my hometown, Leeds. What better way to get clear footage during lockdown. Still miss the Odeon and ABC cinema 😞 childhood memories
@LadyMul
2 жыл бұрын
Glad the cleaned up that old post office in city square, it’s easy to forget how polluted it used to be. Am sad to be reminded the cinema is now that sports shop
@Dan.Bayliss
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video my friend, well done
@ShevillMathers
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant, thanks for sharing. Also what a change in image quality (fim & digital) between then & now. I left Leeds in 1968 for a life on paradise island, 'Tasmania' Australia's island State. I would not recognise most of Leeds now, doubt I could even live there after more than 50 years of pristine clean air, blue skies, no pollution, and vast beaches close to home, a 5-acre rural property just 15 minutes drive from Tasmania's capital city, Hobart. However, it was Leeds University that gave me the start.
@matthewgaunt4358
2 жыл бұрын
This is interesting and well put together. Thank you for taking the trouble to make it.
@paranoidgenius9164
3 жыл бұрын
Good comparison video with an easy listening track. I love history, and mighty Leeds has a lot of it 🤘Leeds🤘
@grahamhgt6468
2 жыл бұрын
Bravo sir, that is a magnificent then and now video, very impressive and a great effort. Well done
@matthew1337
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your kind words Graham.
@oliverrobinson6325
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliantly made
@dacresmorley3850
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video, your editing is spot on. Thank you for the memories
@willowrose4310
3 жыл бұрын
Really interesting, thank you for this 🙂
@rogerrabbit6522
3 жыл бұрын
I remember Leeds from the late 60s. I remember Briggate being wider and having busses up and down both sides with a central railing and subways underneath to connect both sides with public toilets available, though disgusting in the subways. I think there were trams there too but that might be before my time. Leeds market was much bigger before the fire too, Franks barbers down to one side and the offices above.
@Samirahmed.48
2 жыл бұрын
Still is wide but there’s more roadworks now
@rogerrabbit6522
2 жыл бұрын
@@Samirahmed.48 I mean the entire length, most of which is pedestrianised now. It had double decker buses up and down with waist high railings in the middle, dirty from the buses and other traffic and at least one subway underneath with public toilets in the subways.
@frogandspanner
3 жыл бұрын
1:30 The triangular building was, late 50s early 60s, "Contact for Cash" - a pawnbroker. The windows were filled with electric guitars, the result of reality over wishful thinking. There was also a traditional pawnbroker in Hunslet - the owner wasn't afraid to display his balls. Does anybody else remember the Tetley's horse-drawn drays distributing beer around the city centre?
@leedsman54
3 жыл бұрын
I also remember Contact with the guitars...loads of them! Many years ago I had to go into Tetley’s stables for some work reason and it was a really interesting other world.
@yorkiepudd7404
3 жыл бұрын
Yes there was stable open days through the summer, we use to swap satdi between seacroft centre or down to town. If in town time allowing go stand by stable gates n watch, usually someone would come give you a show you around and feel like a midget up by shire lol
@Robby334
10 ай бұрын
well done i am impressed
@AndyRubio1
4 жыл бұрын
fantastic!
@louisehunt670
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant ! Thankyou x
@chrispatton5925
3 жыл бұрын
Loved the video
@matthew1337
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Chris!!
@jnmykn5557
3 жыл бұрын
Nothing much has changed in what you have shown. A bit more colurful and focussed but much the same. Thanks very much for your eforts, much appreciated. _ Jn
@thebigredwagon
2 жыл бұрын
If I had a time machine I would go back to leeds in the 60’s and when I got there smash the machine to pieces.
@godsson7787
3 жыл бұрын
I do love where im from ❤
@matthew1337
3 жыл бұрын
Its bloody nice int it.
@godsson7787
3 жыл бұрын
@@matthew1337 i hate how some places knock down some beautiful buildings. Born in 88 but im in awe of how clean britain looked even in the 70s. Minus the high rises.
@GregPreece
4 жыл бұрын
Siiiiiick
@jeffreyhodge5564
3 жыл бұрын
Worked at Stylo shoe shop Merioneth centre ,escalator at the side but no roof on Morrison centre for a long time ,very cold and windy!
@sixtiesfan11
3 жыл бұрын
more please! 😊
@matthew1337
3 жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/wHt8qnd-gayed4o Here you go!
@sixtiesfan11
3 жыл бұрын
@@matthew1337 thank you, Matthew 😊😊
@irajmajidi
11 ай бұрын
Nice city 💚
@fatfarmhsb
4 жыл бұрын
Cool video !
@LJK109
3 жыл бұрын
Very good thanks
@andyhodgson7692
Жыл бұрын
3:49 I believe that is some of the oldest ever film footage and was recorded in 1888.
@andysmith5328
7 ай бұрын
Hi can anyone remember where Ebenezer street was? I’m guessing it was somewhere near Eastgate or did Eastgate actually replace it? I’ve found some old records at work with the name Ebenezer Street but there is only one in Farsley now. Thanks
@aprenderlife
9 ай бұрын
We got a Chillstep fan?
@mikestravelshow
2 жыл бұрын
They will begin work on city square soon until February 2023. They will close the road except buses 🚌
@muhammadislam0000
3 жыл бұрын
What's the name of the building between 1:35 & 1:44 please, there's a train going from right to left?
@matthew1337
3 жыл бұрын
The one behind the train is Malmaison hotel.
@stephenhodgson3506
Жыл бұрын
When it is shown on the left it was the offices of Leeds City buses at one time it had also been the offices of the Leeds Electric Company.. Just down the side on Concordia Street was where the football specials used to be and opposite where North Taproom is was the ole Queens Hall which was a bus garage.
@dmitrijspascenko888
6 ай бұрын
Song name?!
@matthew1337
6 ай бұрын
It's in the description at the bottom!
@ericboxer3053
2 жыл бұрын
the biggest difference is then leeds still was an English city now diversity is out strength
@DanHlrzr
2 жыл бұрын
The ugly truth is that whites will be a minority by 2050... England is becoming less and less English.
@stephenhodgson3506
Жыл бұрын
No it wasn't Leeds has always had a diverse immigrant population. The Irish came over in the 19th century to build the railways. Jews arrived from Russia in the late 19th century including the founders of M&S. Then their are to founders of the Leeds tailoring industry who lived in the Mabgate are of the city. We had a large German population, Poles, Ukrainians, Greeks. The city has always been diversified ever since Tudor times.
@trippy1198
11 ай бұрын
@@stephenhodgson3506Too much immigration , far too much, the sheer numbers have descended the country into utter chaos. And the inner city Leeds demographics have changed beyond all recognition. i mean look at Harehills?! its almost dystopian!!
@stephenhodgson3506
11 ай бұрын
@@trippy1198 now I'm going to scare you because I'm going to reply to you with some facts and I know that many immigrant haters are as scared of facts as they are of immigration. When the Irish first started coming to Leeds to build the canals and railways there were some like you who complained and said the city couldn't cope, but we did. The same thing happened when the Jews arrived. Then the West Indians in the 1950's and 1960's but the city always absorbed them for the betterment of the city's culture and progressed. The fastest growing part of the city is the city centre and most of those that are moving there are well educated people who chose to attend the city's universities and decided to stay and they are white. Now the bit that will really terrify you. The current UK birth rate is 1.56 births per woman. To maintain a population that can sustain the UK at its current level without any economic improvement whatsoever the UK needs a birth rate of 2.1 births per woman. If we were to stop all immigration as you would like that means that the UK economy will begin to shrink as there will not be insufficient people to do the necessary work and pay the taxes. As the UK has an impending aging population crisis due to the boomers retiring, in the very near future we will also be seeing an increase in dementia cases with nobody to pay or care for those people. Additional burdens will be placed on the NHS as old people need more healthcare than young people. To make the problem worse is the fact that many of the senior (age wise) doctors and nurses are all getting closer to retirement and insufficient people are been trained to replace them. Now unless you and people like you can somehow persuade the women of the UK to have more children I would love to know just how you would provide the necessary people to keep the UK economy going. You see this is an impending crisis in all Western economies and those immigrants that you hate are going to be in demand throughout those economies. But the right wing media that have been lying to you for decades so that you will focus on immigration while their friends in power can fleece the economy will keep you distracted for as long as they can. By the time you realise just how much you have been conned it may well be too late.
@trippy1198
11 ай бұрын
@@stephenhodgson3506 Talk about stating the obvious?! you can dress it up as much as you like but mass immigration has destroyed Britain . the British elite and establishment have always been corrupt - they were fucking the indigenous British over for centuries , it's nothing new sherlock lol and if you think that filling the country with third world people can be deemed as progress then i suggest you get yourself to some of the backward immigrant areas we have up north in abundance - rotherham anyone? odlham? rochdale? grooming cases? hmmmm? immigration in the uk was demographically insignificant up until around 1948 when the treaty was signed & the lunacy was allowed to start.
@andrewnelson4057
2 жыл бұрын
And practically all of the modern shots...: ROADWORKS...!!! Can't LCC leave stuff alone for 5 min's without narrowing something, or pedestrianizing, or changing the traffic flow, or removing Bus Stops, or re-naming areas for no logical reason...?
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