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There was something continental and romantic sbout the concourse of central station...did it feature in billy liar where he fails to catch the train ?

I miss that time, there was a lot of peace and joy just in thought now....

Luvvely…

Having a walk down Memory Lane interesting to see the ‘Peacocks Linoleum’ advert @ 2:20 where my father spent most of his working life until it closed in the 80’s. My sister & I have fond memories of picking dad up at work with our mum on a Saturday in the late 60’s-70’s. Richard Peacock used to give us a Schweppes Bitter Lemon & we used to run around the different Departments after the shop had shut answering telephone extensions that Richard & dad were ringing to amuse us - happy days. Some years later I had a Saturday job as a teenager cutting Vinyl Flooring when they had moved to more modern premises on the opposite side of the Headrow.

I went there a couple of times as a train spotter in the early sixties, what a cramped run down place it was but you could get up close to top link locomotives. It amazes me how many people still say things were much better under BR but they weren't. The fares were high for the average wage earner, the system was run down in spite of modernisation and I felt a lot of the timetables were more for the convenience of the staff getting to and from shifts than the public. Enjoy the video, it might get pulled, there is a Robertson jam advert lurking in it!

Loved your video! Do you have one showing the old Matthias Robinson Department store??

6:42 that should read > the labour party axe falls as they shut the lines never beeching, who got an award from the labour party by the by

This was some of the first moving film ever shot in the UK. It was made by Louis Le Prince who had also shot footage at Roundhay Gardens 18 months earlier. I would have loved if he had taken a shot of where the train station and Queens Hotel now stand as these were not there at this point and I would like to have seen what was there. Have wanted to see this footage for some years, Thank You Leeds Loiner.

You could probably catch a train back then which was actually on time......

Another wonderful Mitchell & Kenyon film, you can see them "directing" the action in the street. The billboards were probably advertising the showing of these films later in the day. That's how they earned their living, by filming local people and then selling tickets to see themselves the same day or next day.

An amazing record and so many gems there! I halved the playback speed and cut the sound so as to enjoy each image more fully. Thank you so much for posting

can any tell me when buildings in Leeds took on a darker shade(became filthy) they surely weren't built that way ..was it pollution ..what a bonus to have them clean..I would offer half off cost to any householder who had them cleaned,especially in headingly and roundhay

much research ,very well selected and presented..perhaps a dash too rapid succession of images..it always surprises me how sophisticated and populous central Leeds was ,and how prosperous judging by the number and range of shops..I muse upon the candidates for preservation among the buildings and delight in the number preserved .beauty and taste rather than utility seem to have been the guiding rule

At 3 min 36 sec. we see a tram preparing to descend Whitecote Hill (with gradients between 1 in 8.4 and 1 in 12). It is seen on the wrong side of the street during driver training on Sunday 8th July 1906 prior to the opening of the route to Rodley the following day. The trams on this route were specially fitted with magnetic track brakes. Cars had to make a Compulsory Stop at the top of the hill (as photo), before descending at a maximum of 4mph. It is said that in the early days of operation, a man was on permanent duty to sand the tracks to prevent slipping.

Excellent. I'd not seen the tram ride along Boar Lane before.

Looks like another one of the superb Mitchell and Kenyon films, where they filmed local events or people going about their daily lives (eg. as seen in Boar Lane with trams loading and unloading). They then encouraged people, by way of hand bills, to pay to see themselves on screen later that day or the next day at a public hall where the freshly processed films were exhibited.

I saw JFK and a Golliwog ...

As a little child Central was the station I loved. You somehow seemed closer to the great steam engined monsters. Later, in 1965 or 66 I was with a group of cricketers waiting for the Bradford train and I found a fiver and a shopping list on the floor of the station. At the age of 72 I now apologise to whoever lost it. My mates and I spent it that night!

Thank you for uploading this. In the 1910's my Great, Great Grandfather (Radley Ainley) used to be a Potato, Fish and fruit Merchant from a shop on Commercial Road (now sadly demolished). This video gives a real flavour of life in Bramley village around that time.

Gosh, really tricky to recognise any of the modern Leeds! How sad to lose all those old buildings, though...

wow what a great vid

Who knows where is that in Leeds? Name of street?

Nock it all down its a shit hole nice music

Yes it was a “grotty” place in the sixties for the mainline station to Kings Cross but what a history, and with it’s magnificent two level multi-company goods yard in Wellington St. I was fortunate enough to work there from 1961 to 65 on the Deltics ( early day problems etc).and was able to see a grand array of steam Pacific’s daily. Coply Hill was an interesting place too. Suggest reading history of Leeds to Thirsk Rlwy, later renamed Leeds Northern with its magnificent viaducts and tunnels enroute to Harrogate.(does Thirsk Row and Northern St either side Central suggest anything?) This was a very enjoyable film thank you.

Your work on this is absolute cerebral gold dust. Images lost forever, never to be imagined again, brought back to a generation who think everything will be provided tomorrow!

I think you will find it was actually filmed in 1888 by Louis le Prince, Le Prince disappeared in 1890 on his way to the US to showcase his invention. Louis Le Prince. Filmed at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds in the north of England on 14 October 1888, it is believed to be the oldest surviving film in existence. Along with Leeds bridge,

Beautifully put together 😆

I love Leeds.

I always liked going to railway stations and travelling by train. I liked the atmosphere and I never suffered from travel sickness when I travelled by train, unlike I did when travelling long distances by bus.

I watched Winston Churchill make a speech from the steps in front of the Leeds Civic Hall as a child during the 1945 General Election , I can't say I was impressed with him, to me he was just a little old man in a dark overcoat and a homburg hat. I have lived in Headingly all my life except for my military service, and I don't think that Leeds has ever been a better city than it is today.

What is the music accompanying this video

Is that something steam powered in the top left corner? Maybe a crane?

I'm 53 and lived in Leeds but I don't ever remember this station being where it used to be. I can only remember a rubble strewn waste land at the end of the railway viaduct which is still there today. The lifting house is still there and the boundary wall. What used to be the Weslesley Hotel was a part of the station back in its hey day but very little else remains. Dr. Beeching was a real tosser like all politicans of today...

I enjoyed that, thanks for uploading it.....cheers from an Australian railway nut

Paradise. It should never have been closed. I used to travel here by train from Laisterdyke(Bradford) via the two Pudsey stations to spot at Leeds Wellington in the very early 1950s. My trains were invariably hauled by an N1 locos. Edward Gaunt.

I worked on the new Bond St shopping centre that was being built as apprentice Joiner ( which has been renamed since ) and in the summer of 1975, a gang of Joiners & myself were sent down to the old goods yard areas to make up shutters for the floor levels, they used to get transported to the site from there, we must have rented the land, we were there for about 3 or 4 months, it was eerie seeing evidence of it once being a busy station with the outlay of tracks still visible. I've had a soft spot for that area ever since, hate that so much has been built in that area now.

I live in Florida, but grew up in Bramley. My dad's family, the Crawfords, lived in Whitecote Square, near the Rock Inn. I remember the fish shop, Benson's, opposite The Rock. Best fish and chips in town! Thanks for posting. So many good memories. I'm told my grandad, Jim Crawford, was the unofficial mayor of Whitecote.

Grand train spotting

The transport system in Leeds is still as slow. So many plans but nothing achieved. Where is the metro that comparable European cities have?

Everyone in this film is long dead.

The photo at 7:20 is the entrance to Wellington Street forwarding office, not Leeds central station. Arthur Hallas was the chief clerk, Wally Tanner the head foreman.

Leeds a once lovely city is now nothing but a number of no go ghettos.

The building at 0.18 to 0.26 do you know if that was at the top or bottom end of Briggate?

I remember it as a small child. Probably due to my height back then, I remember the cobbles mainly. We used to get the train to Bradford once a month to collect the rents from the terraced houses my great grandad built there.

All the a4 Pacific engines came into here from kings cross before the deltics i used to walk up the ramp through a yard you could sit and see all the platforms.1963 /' 65 used to love watching the steam engines.was part of the old l.n.e.r. railway had copley hill shed when leeds had 2 stations.this went to Doncaster and kings cross.leeds city to London went into st.pancras.before they put the link in from leeds city.this is the origional line that goes out round past elland road football ground.you can follow the line back into leeds It went over the top of the line to Shipley /Skipton.leeds central line also ran out on the north of the Shipley line and out to horsforth and harrogate over Kirkstall viaduct.and linked into the l.n.e.r. to york.you could once travel from leeds to Skipton via ilkley until they took the ilkley bridge down.and also menston through otley it had a station to harrogate.before everyone had cars.armley Kirkstall /newly &horseforth/ carvery&rodley /Appley bridge were station open and manned along the way to Shipley.going back to the sixtys used to watch the steam trains speeding through Appley bridge when I was 5.

Great days train spotting, the memories

With all the planning to increase the capacity of Leeds City if instead of pulling it down they had mothballed it the capacity would have already been in existence. This could apply to the whole rail network, I always have the thought that somebody wanted to make sure their growing businesses would never be put under threat so they eliminated them.

2:08 Have a Guinness when you're tired. I'm sure drinking beer will help keep you awake, right? Or does it actually say "fired"?

Went from here on my annual holidays back in late 50s to early 60s my uncle John Joynson was an inspector . He used to get a porter to meet us off the bus and take our cases up the slope and onto the train , loved the three wheel electric buggy things they used to pull mail about with! Kev J

Ah the memories of my train spotting days ...good times..