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| Quote: flipper " '"What's that thing poking out of the North Stand roof (presumably something on the cricket side?)
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| Quote: leeds owl "Is that round't back o't Corn Exchange and coming down York Road into Leeds ?'"
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There are still plenty of those of sufficient vintage who remember when County Arcade was an arcade and not part of the Victoria Quarter and of course The Mecca Ballroom, home to Leeds' most famous part time disc jockey, full time paedophile and sex abuser.
Personally I never went to The Mecca as a nightclub (it closed in 1969) although I did go to The Mecca in The Merrion Centre when it was Tiffany's (are you keeping up), it was shoite.
Anyway, I DID go to The Mecca, after it wasn't The Mecca, in 1971/72 -ish when some entreprenuer (not the sex fiend surely) found the keys to the cellar and opened up the basement rooms as a hippy market, we can probably date this exactly because my abiding memory of descending the narrow staircase down into the basement from a side door in The Mecca main entrance was of T. Rex's "Jeepster" being played on constant loop, very loudly.
In the basement, which was just the cellar of the building with no concession to the retail trade at all, they'd let various hippys and dodgy dealers set up stalls to sell hippy trinkets, rings, russian puzzle rings, patches for jeans, ex-army coats, and all sorts of goodies that we 16 year olds desired, the older generation had Boodle-Am, we had The Mecca hippy market and we came up out of the basement stinking of joss sticks and patchulie oil and whatever funny cigarettes they were all smoking down there - an ace place to spend a Saturday afternoon, I took my mother down there one Saturday and she couldn't manage the stairs, said it smelled funny and she needed to go to Cashdishia.
And the Greenwoods store to the left of The Mecca - when the fad for paisley scarves worn with red hankies and crombies emerged in the early 70s, thats where me and my mates used to buy ours, it was a traditional old gentlemens outfitters where you couldn't try anything on until a gentleman had gone and fetched it for you - the scarves and hankies were all in drawers in a glass topped, glass fronted counter and you had to point at what you wanted - I've just been to Primark today and its like a fekkin rugby scrum by comparison.
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| I have absobloodynoidea how, but I ended up on this site the other day
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| Quote: flipper "I have absobloodynoidea how, but I ended up on this site the other day
A little irrelevant story on the type of construction that those sort of tower blocks were - when the Clarendon Wing of the LGI was being built I was offered a job as a QS based on site for the electrical contractors, I knew the bloke who offered me the job so he took me around the site on a tour, the building was still a meccano building in that its steel frame was up but only the first two floors had had their concrete floors poured and the third floor was being put together at the time (there are actually twice as many floors as you see from the outside for inbetween each floor of wards is a service floor).
So we come out of the stairwell onto the third floor which they are still laying and it consists of concrete beams running the width of the building with smaller ones running the length and inbetween each of those were smaller "I" shaped lintels approximately 18" apart AND filling in the gaps between each lintel were what looked like breeze blocks because thats basically what they were, they simply slotted into the "I" shape and sat there loose until the floor screed was poured which then bound the whole lot together and gave a light but very solid floor.
Part of my job was going to be to walk across this unpoured floor and mark on the block where we wanted the builders to cut holes thorugh the breeze blocks for our services, hundreds of holes where cable trunking and conduits dropped through to the floor below, my soon to be new boss stood on the edge of the stairwell and told me in no uncertain terms to not stand on the breeze blocks because they were even lighter that the normal construction blocks and wouldn't bear your weight - construction sites in the late 1970s made little concession to safety if you didn't have any common sense, hard hats were for soft gits and safety boots unheard of.
Yes,I stood on one and yes it cracked but didn't fall through, I shat myself several times that morning because the whole thing moved while you walked on it and I couldn't imagine accurately measuring things while not being sure where to put your feet.
I turned down the job the next day and went back to working in Newcastle.
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the slama, was more of a nafees man myself, but did lurch into the slama a few times |
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the slama, was more of a nafees man myself, but did lurch into the slama a few times'"
Had my first ever Indian meal in Nafees in the late 1970s and I recall being a bit under-impressed, I suspect that it was fairly true to the Indian original recipe though as there wasn't much taste to it and it was very watery.
We used to go to an Indian on Queens Road just opposite the school that had been a car repair place, wooden hut that was all but falling down but they did the most gorgeous Indian food and served it in almost complete darkness, I don't think they actually had electricity in the place and you ate by candlelight and not in a romantic way either. |
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Similar to Jerry chicken my first Indian meal was in nafees, I ordered Bombay duck, quite obviously I did not get the dish I was expecting. Never the less I enjoyed the fish concoction . I remember the old Mecca very well as I was an apprentice electrician in the sixties in Leeds . I attended kitson college one day a week and three nights,at lunch time we used to go to the Mecca it was open for a couple of hours. On odd occasions we would have a liquid lunch in the coburg,with a couple of pork pies for grub.
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| Quote: JerryChicken "Had my first ever Indian meal in Nafees in the late 1970s and I recall being a bit under-impressed'"
My third visited curry venue... the first two being 1) Slamma and 2) Karachi (Bradford).
Quote: JerryChicken "I suspect that it was fairly true to the Indian original recipe though as there wasn't much taste to it and it was very watery.'"
Not sure about being true to any Indian original recipe... their nans consisted of pitta bread warmed up in a microwave oven and their curries were either very watery, or, if you were lucky... the water was thickened and had the consistency of gravy, and plenty of it! This made up for the lack of meat content...about as much as you'd find in a tin of Heinz Big Soup.
Quote: JerryChicken "We used to go to an Indian on Queens Road just opposite the school that had been a car repair place, wooden hut that was all but falling down but they did the most gorgeous Indian food and served it in almost complete darkness, I don't think they actually had electricity in the place and you ate by candlelight and not in a romantic way either.'"
Yes... it was called the Taj Mahal IIRC. |
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