We lived at 46 Westover Road Here's the streetview - it's the one with the dormer.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.81203 ... 312!8i6656
A bigger house than it looks. The original occupier - a doctor I believe - must have had social ambitions because it was wired with bells in all the main rooms with a display panel in the mezzanine cellar/ kitchen. I use the socially ambitious word mezzanine to describe a situation where the street round the other side was much lower, so the cellar windows were almost at street level. I presume they had some sort of a parlour-maid / AKA skivvy. A good view at the back, across Broad Lane and the baths you mention and beyond to Baildon Moor.
As a bit more family info, the woman on the right of my (edit) Leodis link is my Auntie Jessie, who was really my mother's aunt but they were brought up almost as sisters with a big age gap, and who was rehoused from Ventnor Street - one of the A-Z streets off Kirkstall Road where what's left of Yorkshire TV is now, and went to live in one of the then newly-built council houses on Outgang in the area you mention. She was convinced that people on the telly could see you, and when the telly was on - evening only in those days - covered up anything sparkly so they weren't dazzled.
The council tower blocks have had varying and chequered histories. Some were sinks almost from the start, others pretty good. East Leeds, as in postal districts 9 and 14 is the only area of Leeds proper (pre-1974 boundary) where I have never worked so my knowledge is limited.
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PS As well as Leeds City Council's Leodis site, which is based on official archives with some submissions from members of the public, there is also Secret Leeds, which I understand was originally maintained by the council but now limps along unsupported. It's such a well-kept secret that it has relatively few members, but queries about times past usually attract comments from somebody who knows. It's very clunky because there's little technical support
http://secretleeds.com/index.php
Mesothelioma After Forty Years Short Exposure.
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Our house in Woodhouse used to be a dentist's previously, we used to have a big cast iron press for making false teeth kicking around for donkey's years, it would have made quite a good fly press, but it went in a skip eventually. The cousin we stayed with in Bramley was nearer my parents' generation, her eldest son is older than I am.
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Used to work at Killingbeck Hospital in Leeds. Used to operate on loads of mesothelioma patients, mainly open and shut. The numbers haven't peaked yet I understand.
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An aside, but "This streetview has what survives of the asbestos factory to the right, with the Clock School, surmounted by the eponymous clock ahead and to the left. The school is now a business centre.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.80001 ... 312!8i6656"
took me to map showing two places where I worked, though one (Wilson and Mathiesons, the old New World gas appliance factory) long since gone. But Gott's Park Golf Course still there - and the trees we planted (on the lower fields adjacent to the secondary school) seem mainly to have survived!
W&M (known to those who worked there as a last resort - highest employee turn over I've ever known - as "Whiplash and Masochism") was a filthy place but no obvious asbestos.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.80001 ... 312!8i6656"
took me to map showing two places where I worked, though one (Wilson and Mathiesons, the old New World gas appliance factory) long since gone. But Gott's Park Golf Course still there - and the trees we planted (on the lower fields adjacent to the secondary school) seem mainly to have survived!
W&M (known to those who worked there as a last resort - highest employee turn over I've ever known - as "Whiplash and Masochism") was a filthy place but no obvious asbestos.
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From the Leodis photograph archive already linked above, here are the search results for Wilson and Mathieson and for Gott's Park.
http://www.leodis.net/searchResults.asp ... D=&PUBID=0
http://www.leodis.net/searchResults.asp ... CURRPAGE=1
http://www.leodis.net/searchResults.asp ... D=&PUBID=0
http://www.leodis.net/searchResults.asp ... CURRPAGE=1
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Thanks. It's a while since I skimmed the Leodis site - it's fascinating. I once "lost" nearly a 1000 sq yds of stainless steel sheet down the canal bank side (on orders of the foreman I hasten to add after the checker had insisted that HE, not I, had read the drawing correctly!).
And even a photo - though I am certain the date is wrong - of the house where herself and I first lived together.
http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL
Happy days.....
And even a photo - though I am certain the date is wrong - of the house where herself and I first lived together.
http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL
Happy days.....