Why and how is it that black and white pictures and photos of Leeds ,and even some colour ones ,within the pre 1970 period suggest poverty,deprivation and uniform misery and ugliness ..I was raised in seaforth road from 1946 ,attended school up from harehills road and church near there ..and never saw ,experienced or heard of such things ..they doubtless existed but didn't prevail in Leeds ..the mistake made,but often deliberate selection to serve some ideological position, is to equate blackened buildings and street scenes with starvation, and deprivation ..most houses were warm,clean and furnished ..most men were employed and in Leeds many women..in the clothing industry...Leeds has since the Victorian era escaped the worst effects of degradation evident in the ports and single heavy industry centres....it parallels the other myths of violence and criminality....there wasnt much or really any of this either.just wonderful,trustworty ,kind ,respectable, people
@peteradamson46
5 ай бұрын
Also brought up in Harehills from 1946 - and I agree with all this.
@Betterlifemotivation
Жыл бұрын
Where is Mr. Adamson now?
@Betterlifemotivation
Жыл бұрын
Hi Sir, like to know how you are doing now🎉
@laurencealster2930
Жыл бұрын
HI Peter. Were you a pupil at Roundhay School in the mid-fifties to early sixties?
@basiljacob7736
Жыл бұрын
Sir I'm from Kerala im just 19 years old but that documentry which i randomly saw was something i should never miss in my life thank you for sharing it in the Internet thank you for showing the struggle and beauty of our home
@rom-do7wp
Жыл бұрын
Mr. Peter ❤…I from kerala…..orthodox ❤❤❤❤
@rom-do7wp
Жыл бұрын
Mr peter ❤❤❤
@rkpillaisankar2097
Жыл бұрын
Mr.Peter where are you now?
@SteveCaseyBeijing
Жыл бұрын
not harehills
@abdulsatharabdulsathar2855
3 жыл бұрын
🌹🙏
@forragerr
3 жыл бұрын
hey peter how are you ?
@forragerr
3 жыл бұрын
♥️🙂
@aravind4u444
3 жыл бұрын
I had seen your documentary about Kerala. Its very interesting. Most of the people shown in the video are still living there. Places changed a lot
@naseernechi9233
3 жыл бұрын
I am a big fan of Peter adamson sir
@ParthanRavi
3 жыл бұрын
Today..We are Keralites fighting against Covid.2nd waves...You're gives me more positive thoughts through the vedios Kerala Solutions...
@anjaliunnikrishnan5814
3 жыл бұрын
The pics look older. Feel like 1910s. Good video
@resthav0894
3 жыл бұрын
🖤
@lalgjohn4315
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing 🥰😍👍👍👍
@doodles863
4 жыл бұрын
One thing for sure, it doesn’t look like this now
@angelique___5607
5 жыл бұрын
It’s hard being from Harehills because as soon as you mention it, some cock-fart looks down their nose at you, but... I had a Silver Cross pram. We played out in the street all day and if we weren’t in by the time the street lamps came on, we were for it! Your neighbour could bray you. Our nanna’s scrubbed their doorsteps and washing was hung house to house and people had window boxes with flowers in them. Sick to death of hearing about ‘immigrants’... anyone with half a sandwich for a brain knows that Harehills ALWAYS had immigrants... Polish, Irish, Jews and YES(!) I am mixed race and very proud of it and I know Harehills has lost its prettiness but to be honest, so have lots of areas of Leeds. It certainly doesn’t have the worst crime rate and all you need to do is go to West Yorkshire Police to seek out the figures for yourself and you’ll see how the areas with ‘less’ immigration rank far higher for crime than Harehills does. In fact, even Guiseley once had the highest rate of paedos in the entire area of Leeds! But you don’t get people commenting on that! Yes, Harehills is completely horrible now and is a mismatched shambles of its former self. However, my Irish and Jamaican heritage can tell you that we: Cleaned our doorsteps. Left our doors unlocked. Celebrated Whitsuntide. And went to church and Sunday school. So please don’t tell me that immigrants ruined Harehills... continued poverty ruined Harehills. Terraced houses that can fit a grown up family of 5, 6 or more cannot accommodate 5 or 6 cars. Neon lights should be banned from residential areas. LCC should be stricter on retail signage so that the area retains its historic value... like Chester has done for decades. There should be restrictions on how many grocers; takeaways; barbers there can be per ‘row’ of shops. LCC has helped to destroy what was a wonderful working class area. Lack of respect for alternative cultures ruined Harehills. And that last statement is the opposite of what you might think I meant.
@garethmason9255
5 жыл бұрын
This was exceptionally good thank you for a very entertaining and nostalgic video. This is one video is one of my best I've watched mate.
@mrcynical9368
6 жыл бұрын
No blacks or immigrants
@angelique___5607
5 жыл бұрын
mr cynical no nobheads either.
@Lovehors4s
3 жыл бұрын
Yes there were, I lived in Harehills Terrace from 1955 and some of our neighbours were black I went to Harehills CP school where I played with black girls both there and at Agnes Stewart school.
@jennil7797
3 жыл бұрын
Yes there were, in Harehills anyway. These are not of Harehills, but a similar area. I was born in the large flat above 323a Roundhay Road in 1953. In 1956 we moved to Roundhay Grove. The family next door to us there were students from Ghana and their baby daughter. They were training to be doctors. I was very sad when they returned to Accra.
@stevebagnall1553
6 жыл бұрын
This is a mixture of Meanwood and Burley. The power station was on Kirkstall Road,
@BettySwollocks13
7 жыл бұрын
Beautiful images as they are, there is not one image from Harehills there, the nearest one is the North Leeds WMC and that was in Burmantofts or bordering Newtown which doesn't exist no more.
@elephantsmemory3142
4 жыл бұрын
To some of us it will always be Green road and never lincoln green road
@markmiwurdz752
7 жыл бұрын
Inner city poverty oozing from each image, people looked content though.
@trippy2johno280
7 жыл бұрын
people we're just more dumb and less informed before the internet, don't mean that in a bad way and also the place was more serene back then, less piss poor trash from the third world & less people getting wasted on drugs and booze. the place was never perfect but it has never been more of a depressing scruffy shit hole than it is today!!!
@giovanniantonioschito5986
7 жыл бұрын
MOLTO BELLO ED INTERESSANTE . ANCHE UN BEL REGALO DI NATALE PER LA PERSONA AMATA.
@peteradamson46
7 жыл бұрын
Grazie Giovanni. Mia moglie ed io abbiamo appena passati una splendida vacanza in Italia per celebrare il nostro 50 ° anniversario di matrimonio.
@user-jy9ti5dc3g
7 жыл бұрын
Wonderful, here I am 67 years old and tears rolling. What a daft sod I am, but such memories!
@peteradamson46
7 жыл бұрын
Not daft at all. My wife cries whenever she watches it. Thank you for your comment.
@trippy2johno280
7 жыл бұрын
I certainly cry every time I have to drive through harehills these days!!!.....it's a cess pit today
@salmanfarisnk3081
3 жыл бұрын
@@peteradamson46 hello sir Can I get you mail id to contact you?
@meichong8278
Жыл бұрын
@@peteradamson46 Peter I'm confused theres people in the comments who say the pictures are not Harehills , do you actually recognise any of the locations from your childhood ?
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