History of The Bank in Leeds
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2021
- The Bank in Leeds was one of the most crowded and deprived areas of the city in Victorian times. It is an area close to the city centre and river where many Irish migrants first lived when they arrived, escaping the Irish Famine. It was a tough uncompromising place, with a reputation that continued into the 20th Century.
This video uses recent footage and old photographs to describe life on The Bank and explain the changes that have taken place over the last 200 years.
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People were unable to move into the terrace houses of Richmond Hill as they had been built by the railway companies for their workers. You could only get one of those houses if you were employed on the railways where jobs were highly sought after as not only did they give you regular income but higher quality housing. So some people would move into the area in the hope that they might find work in either the Marsh Lane goods yards or in Neville Hill and so overcrowding began to happen. My grandparents lived in the area and during WW1 my grandmother was employed at Barnbow in Crossgates. However her father refused to let her go to work by train as he thought they were dangerous things. She was on the shift just before the shift where the explosion occurred but her father still made her take the tram due to his perception of the dangers.
The Bank was a very rough area where the police would only patrol in pairs with the exception of a policeman nicknamed locally as Rocking Horse because he would sway from side to side as he walked the streets.
Thanks for adding to the story Stephen
Recently joined an online group the "Irish in Leeds". I had never heard of The Bank until then. Kudos. Thank you for your initiative and a truly informative piece. Sincerely.
Thank you Niall, that is very kind of you.
my old man was so proud of the bank bless him ,
I left Leeds in the 70's but still visit. Just found this channel and it's really informative.
Thank you Maria, I am pleased you like it.
My mum was born in a house on Musgrave Fold her name was margret Hall ,that was in the1930s she was Christened at St Saviours God bless her eventually ,the most wonderfull mum to 9 adoring kids ❤
Very nice video. I lived in Richmond hill area and EastEnd park. Long time ago. Thank you for history of Leeds. ❇️
Thank you
Very interesting to me, thanks for posting. My Mother attended St Mary's School and their family lived in Hunslet for many years. They had a very strong Irish Catholic background.
Thank you
My mother attended that school too, by that time having moved from Holbeck to Windmill Road, Bell Isle.
Class video! surprised and impressed by the quality! keep it up!
Thank you for the encouragement Klaidas. I appreciate it.
Lots of memories of the old Leeds.. People where so helpful to each other.. Thank you.. I live in bramley and farsely nice if you can get some old pics of that area...
This was great - have you any plans for a video on another old area that has more or less disappeared - Saville Green ? . This ran from approximately the area of the Torres covering the old Star Cinema and down towards the Regent cinema and Rigton Drive. A lot of my ancestors came from there and I see very little information on it. Like the bank, this area was created from the 1850’s for workers who came into Leeds. The area disappeared around the late 1950’s where the majority who were left were shipped out to the new estates in Gipton and Seacroft.
Thanks Chris, I will add that to my list. My videos on Camp Field and the Leylands came from a suggestion like yours. Many thanks
Wow! That brought some memories back.... I attented St Maries secondary modern, later to become St Marys, at that time there was a grammer school also called St Marys and an infant and junior school on that site and a convent. The nuns taught in all the schools as well as lay teachers. I remember being jealous of the grammer school as they had tennis courts and an indoor swimming pool. For our swimming lessons we had to go to holbeck on a bus, seemed daft to me that a pool was so close yet we were not allowed to use it.
The stairs in the video looked less daunting than they did back in the day. To the left of those stairs was the Annex which housed the library, science lab and toilets, on the floor above was more toilets, a staff room and classrooms and this led out into a play area. The play ground had a buttressed wall of blacken stone, atop of which was the church of St Marys and pathways leading to the back to back houses. There were stairs leading from the playground up to the church and pathway and road and also the top of those steps. To the right of those steps was the convent and then more of our school, ground floor housed the domestic science rooms (cooking and sewing) head teachers office, a staff room and toilets with class rooms on the next level up. The other part to our school was further up the hill and housed a gym, classrooms, dining hall and school kitchen, changing rooms and the school admin staff office.
From the dinning room you could see St Saviours church, the land inbetween must have been housing long since demolished, as you could still see the streets and cobbled roads layout although overgrown with weeds and scrubby grass.
Thank you so much for that trip down memory lane.
Thank you for adding and sharing your memories here Bernadette.
Very interesting; well researched.
Thank you
Interesting
Where is the Bank area in Leeds? 🤔... Holbeck, LS11 ?
It is LS9. Around where Saxton Gardens is today.
St Saviours was allegedly haunted!
still a dump