Its a mystery that one isn't it ?

Clearly the building of the inner ring road in the 1960s but there is nothing on there that is a familar landmark even though there is obviously a large building being constructed in the middle of the photo - I haven't a clue

The building with the five gables of varying sizes in the foreground is the Yorkshire College of Housecraft on Vernon Road which means the emerging behemoth is the E C Stoner building, now part of a series of Grade II listed buildings admired for their "coherent attempt to create a rationalised 'megastructure'".

It may be a minority view but there is something heroic about this kind of image, an appeal in the implied certainty of what the designers were doing, and an appeal in their generation's ability to do things on a properly grand scale. In the 60s there would have been no problems throwing up a 20,000 capacity South Stand which blocked out all of the light to the damned residents on St Michael's Lane.

And back to the photo, there are the little figures, looking like men wandering home trying to work out what the hell happened to their back to backs.

Yes thats the entry into the Leeds University Campus as you come up past the Brotherton Wing and the Martin Wing of the LGI and the buildings under construction are the then "new" University Spine Buildings as developed by the London based architects Camberlin Powell and Bonn.

The building with the tall clock tower is the old Clotherworkers Hall.

That's where I thought it was too

The building in the foreground is Jerusalem Chapel, still standing but used mainly for storage now. The ring road disappearing off to the left goes under the sports centre car park, then under the hospital/university power station, then hospital Clarendon Wing. The tunnel is about to undergo extensive repairs.

I know exactly where it is now, it was on that very stretch of road when one day as I was driving right to left across the photo, a pair of truck tyres came bouncing across the carriageway like a Barnes Wallace bomb, they hit the bonnet of the van in front, flew into the air, passed over my car and then hit another one behind me - a few seconds later a cement mixer came out of the tunnel weaving from side to side having lost two wheels off its rear axle.

I had my very first car phone in the car and so tried to call the emergency services on it, how posh was that.

Unfortunately it was a Rabbit phone and we were nowhere near a reception aerial

some good stuff on flickr too www.flickr.com/photos/cliffordst ... otostream/ www.flickr.com/photos/cliffordst ... /lightbox/

some good stuff on flickr too www.flickr.com/photos/cliffordst ... otostream/ www.flickr.com/photos/cliffordst ... /lightbox/

www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyg195 ... /lightbox/ some great times here

www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyg195 ... /lightbox/ some great times here

I used to love going to the Odeon and the ABC on a weekend with my grandparents. Remember Odeon 5? I think my TV in my bedroom is bigger than that was.

Odeon 5 was a fairly late addition, when they were desperately trying to compete with Multiplexes. I saw 'Lenny: Live and Unleashed' in there, and the small cinema actually helped, giving it a more intimate feel. I think I also saw 'Madonna: Truth Or Dare' in there.