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| Quote: gulfcoast_highwayman "I like this one, featuring the old Wellington Street bus depot.
I drive past that every night but can't picture what building is in its place now - must have a look later.
And there's an Austin Ambassador in that photo - classic shoite car from the days when Britain excelled in building shoite cars - my dad had two 
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Nothing to do with Leeds but on the same Flickr site is this hilarious Sun hardly-photo-shopped at all picture of "How the England Players Held the Penalty Vote"rlhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/danielrobot/242557838/in/photostream/rl
Does anyone read The Sun and did they really need such a convincing graphic in order to at last understand how to vote for who takes penalties ?
Some editor actually thought that was fine for publication.
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| Quote: gulfcoast_highwayman "I like this one, featuring the old Wellington Street bus depot.
I can still remember the old central railway station opposite side of the road,anyone got any pics of that?
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| Quote: lionarmour87 "I can still remember the old central railway station opposite side of the road,anyone got any pics of that?'"
i think there are some, or at least aerial ones on the leodis site itself |
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| Quote: gulfcoast_highwayman "I like this one, featuring the old Wellington Street bus depot.
Last time I remember using it was when National Express and Mars had a special offer.
For six Mars Bar wrappers you could get a return coach ticket down to that London.
Seems hardly credible now but it were true ah tell thi.
Must have been mid-1980s, I guess.
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| Quote: McLaren_Field "I drive past that every night but can't picture what building is in its place now - must have a look later.
And there's an Austin Ambassador in that photo - classic shoite car from the days when Britain excelled in building shoite cars - my dad had two ![]()
Just "discovered" this thread.....wasn't that a Princess ??
Love these old photos....for me it's always the cars on the roads that give a good indication of their vintage. I was a right car 'nut' at one time, buying copies of What Car and ticking all the cars I liked in their comprehensive price listings from lowest to highest they provided in the indexes.
My aspired to 'dream car' was always an Escort Mk1: in the end, when 17, I borrowed £ 400 and ended up with a Vauxhall Viva HC 4 dr in red. Lovely stuff. Took off the front wheel trims and painted wheels black. Great memories of chasing chicks with windows wound down (never actually pulled - wonder why??) and having wheels smoking driving down inner ring road (I'd left the handbrake on and wondered why it was so sluggish....in fairness considering the 1256cc pathetic engine there wasn't much difference and so I might be excused). 
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| Quote: El Barbudo "Last time I remember using it was when National Express and Mars had a special offer.
For six Mars Bar wrappers you could get a return coach ticket down to that London.
Seems hardly credible now but it were true ah tell thi.
Must have been mid-1980s, I guess.'"
Hardly credible at all, you'd have to buy six return tickets to London to exchange for one Mars bar these days - have you seen the price of chocolate in motorway service stations ? |
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Lovely stuff on Flickr. As a youngster (compared to McFlurry atleast) I can spend hours looking at the Leeds of old!
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| Quote: McLaren_Field "Hardly credible at all, you'd have to buy six return tickets to London to exchange for one Mars bar these days - have you seen the price of chocolate in motorway service stations ?'"
The price of everything in services is rediculiously over inflated |
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| Quote: nantwichexile "Just "discovered" this thread.....wasn't that a Princess ??
Love these old photos....for me it's always the cars on the roads that give a good indication of their vintage. I was a right car 'nut' at one time, buying copies of What Car and ticking all the cars I liked in their comprehensive price listings from lowest to highest they provided in the indexes.
My aspired to 'dream car' was always an Escort Mk1: in the end, when 17, I borrowed £ 400 and ended up with a Vauxhall Viva HC 4 dr in red. Lovely stuff. Took off the front wheel trims and painted wheels black. Great memories of chasing chicks with windows wound down (never actually pulled - wonder why??) and having wheels smoking driving down inner ring road (I'd left the handbrake on and wondered why it was so sluggish....in fairness considering the 1256cc pathetic engine there wasn't much difference and so I might be excused). ![]()
I don't know what the difference was between the Princess and the Ambassador, my dad had two Princess's and they were like sitting in a boat on a choppy sea, they didn't have suspension so much as having bungee cord suspending the car on the chassis.
The company I started work for at 17 had Mk 1 Escort vans, you might say they were a bit basic, not even having trim inside the doors but great fun to drive, rear wheel drive vans with 1600cc Ford engines, when they were empty the rear axle was hardly touching the road.
The best fun though was the company Triumph Toledo, a car on narrow tyres with an engine far too powerful for its own suspension, if you drove it around corners at more than 30mph it always went in exactly the opposite direction that you thought it was going to go, a hilarious car to drive with acceleration like an F1 car.
I also once acted as a chauffeur for my boss for a week in his Mk1 Ford Granada, the one that you see in all The Sweeney episodes - a huge tank of a car that didn't have power steering, I remember once trying to turn into Ripon market place in crawling traffic and you couldn't get full lock on the wheel it was that hard to turn !
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| Quote: Sam Buca II "Lovely stuff on Flickr. As a youngster (compared to McFlurry atleast) I can spend hours looking at the Leeds of old!'"
Me too I quite like the secret Leeds and sky scraper city websites, very strange to see how some places looked, although some haven't changed much at all! |
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This is one of my rlfavouriterl Leed's buildings
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| Quote: nantwichexile "Just "discovered" this thread.....wasn't that a Princess ??
Love these old photos....for me it's always the cars on the roads that give a good indication of their vintage. I was a right car 'nut' at one time, buying copies of What Car and ticking all the cars I liked in their comprehensive price listings from lowest to highest they provided in the indexes.
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One other daft car I have owned - I once bought the first release Vauxhall Frontera, a Tonka toy of a car that seemed to have been designed by several different teams, none of whom had any knowledge that other people were also workign on the project and might be fitting stuff that didn't work with their stuff properly.
For instance, the turning circle was fine in 2WD, in fact it was very good for such a big car with big wheels, but put it into 4WD and you could only get, at best, half of the travel on the steering wheel before it refused to turn any further, you wouldn't have been able to do a three point turn on an airfield runway and parking the thing between two other vehicles could take all day of manouvering if you forget to select 2WD - as my wife often did in Asda's car park.
I'd bought the car for her but I had the keys thrown at me one day and got told that she'd be driving my car from then on - a very nice Granada Scorpio which I never got to use again  |
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| Quote: McLaren_Field "I don't know what the difference was between the Princess and the Ambassador, my dad had two Princess's and they were like sitting in a boat on a choppy sea, they didn't have suspension so much as having bungee cord suspending the car on the chassis.
The company I started work for at 17 had Mk 1 Escort vans, you might say they were a bit basic, not even having trim inside the doors but great fun to drive, rear wheel drive vans with 1600cc Ford engines, when they were empty the rear axle was hardly touching the road.
The best fun though was the company Triumph Toledo, a car on narrow tyres with an engine far too powerful for its own suspension, if you drove it around corners at more than 30mph it always went in exactly the opposite direction that you thought it was going to go, a hilarious car to drive with acceleration like an F1 car.
I also once acted as a chauffeur for my boss for a week in his Mk1 Ford Granada, the one that you see in all The Sweeney episodes - a huge tank of a car that didn't have power steering, I remember once trying to turn into Ripon market place in crawling traffic and you couldn't get full lock on the wheel it was that hard to turn !'"
I remember the Granada Mk1 very well. I used to catch the bus to school with a mate from a bus stop across the road from his home....one day we missed it and we got a lift in his dad's car (the Granada)best[/i mate after that in the hope I might get an increased chance of experiencing "aristocracy" again).
My old man could only ever afford old bangers and at the same time we had to travel around in a mini (the proper one, not the BMW barmy imposter that gets even more ridiculous with each new variation...and not even the awful Clubman). Those were the days....the days when Garrowby hill was a genuine challenge and my uncle's Reliant Regal fell over after he overloaded his roof rack ) |
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| When I was kid my dad got a brand new Mk1 Granada Ghia - white with a black vinyl roof.
He'd had it about a week and kept it parked in the garage when my brother was in a rush to get his bike out from the back of the garage. Well being a kid and not yet grasping the concept of spatial awareness he managed to drag his bike down the side of pop's brand new motor leaving a gouge the full length of the car - down to bare metal.
Needless to say my dad wasn't too pleased.- |
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