Speaking of International Women's Day in Leeds, this looks an interesting event courtesy of the Ford Maguire Society ⬇️
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LOP 76 (17 March 1978) headlined Women Have a Fair, report and photo from International Women's Day fair held in the Corn Exchange, Leeds.
Photo from the March page of the 1979 Leeds Other Paper calendar, captioned - March '78: Leeds women organise a Women's Fair at the Corn Exchange to celebrate International Women's Day.
LOP 75 (3 March 1978) includes a letter headlined Women's Fair that gives details of the International Women's Day fair to be held in the Corn Exchange, Leeds. Plus a letter about a summer playscheme, a news report about a picket of WH Smith over its refusal to stock Gay News, and an advert for Beano wholefoods.
As International Women's Day is almost upon us, here's some coverage of the 1978 version from Leeds Other Paper to get everyone in the mood.
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Pleased to report that an old story from Leeds Other Paper makes an appearance in this Yorkshire Almanac from the @organgrinder.bsky.social, as featured here on the @leedslibraries.bsky.social blog.
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LOP 259 (28 Jan 1983) front page, main headline: Chemical fire victims take council to court...
What a lot of news - a busy LOP front page from January 1983.
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Who remembers the Leeds Skywalk? In the early 70s, all new buildings in the city centre were required to add an external raised pedestrian walkway. It started at Millgarth with various sections extending over to the Bank of England but it never linked up completely.
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Full story of the Leeds v Man U fracas in 1906 when Leeds City ‘Larrakins’ hit the ref on the nose with a well aimed lump of concrete…
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“For those of us that know the Leeds story, then this is where our soul begins, the first stamp of our DNA.”
Birdsong on Holbeck Moor.
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Anyone remember the name of the Leeds City dog?
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Who can forget the spectacular Leeds Christmas lights #nineteen85 style!
Some cracking festive bargains on offer in that surplus store too. ‘We Buy Owt!’
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Queen Victoria in front of Leeds Town Hall. Moved in 1937. I assume everyone knows where she is now? Whatever your feelings on the monarchy, it’s a fine statue which surely should have a more prominent site than it currently does….
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It was a tricky one this as it’s changed so much, took me a while to work it out but the faint Imperial Hotel sign on the tower on the right is the clue. Photo was taken on Briggate from near Whitelocks, looking down towards Boar Lane. #LeedsHistory
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Looking busy in town this lunchtime! The bobbies seem to be keeping an eye on the lads with the hats and sticks mobbing up outside the tea dealers, the road is blocked with stage coaches and someones dog’s escaped. Anyone recognise where in Leeds it is?
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Bonfire night in Blandford Gardens, Woodhouse, LS2 in the days before Health and Safety and Public Liability insurance when you just burnt your ‘chumps’ at the end of the street!
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Holbeck Moor bonfire 1923…why was it in July not November?? Read about it below…I’d love to have seen the blaze which was fuelled by 100 pianos!! 😳
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Some great footage of Elland Rd Jan 1927 -Leeds v Bolton FA Cup 4th round. Attendance given as 42,694 but looks a lot more. Leeds playing in the Huddersfield kit chairman Hilton Crowther made us wear in a season that saw us relegated from division 1.
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I thought this was an easy one as it looks pretty much the same today but only one person got it right. It’s the junction of Briggate and Boar Lane opposite McDonald’s with Holy Trinity church in the background.
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Small boy on a very big horse. A great Victorian Leeds street scene.. anyone recognise where it is?
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Looking busy in town this afternoon but there are plenty of taxis waiting on the rank in Lower Briggate.
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The days when you could do 30mph in Leeds city centre…Anyone recognise the building being built on the left?
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The Windmill club was at 97 North Street, now Lovell Park council houses.The club was run by Eugene Lacey with wrestler big Jim ‘Gargantua’ Moran on the door. Apparently Des O’Connor lost a lot of money in a card school there one night. I doubt he argued much about it!
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Looks like a Harlem speakeasy in the 1920s but this was actually a Leeds club, popular with well known ‘characters’ in the late 50s and 60s. Anyone know its name and where it was?
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This looks an interesting talk - here's Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the Chapeltown bonfire night events from 50 years ago. #BlackHistoryMonth #LeedsHistory
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If you were a teenager in 70s/80s Leeds this was your first stop in town for new gear. I never realised it opened around 1969- perfect timing for the invention of skinhead!
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You can almost smell the Embassy Regal smoke, Brut 33 and William Youngers shite bitter on these classic 70s shots. Name that Leeds city centre boozer…
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The World’s Ugliest Woman at Woodhouse Feast in the early 70s- ‘An educational show for Intelligent People’…straight after they’d puked up their candy floss from being spun too fast on the waltzers by an Alvin Stardust lookalike with love bites.
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Looking busy in town today! Amazing footage from 1902 of Boar Lane approaching the junction with Briggate (where McDonald’s is now). It’s so clear you can almost imagine you’re there…
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“I know nowt about politics and t’like, but the way I see it yon ‘Itler fella is an evil little twat”. Leeds United’s Bert Sproston speaking his mind in the days before player media training and club PR officers.
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Anyone fancy the UD tonight? It’s DJ Glen St John spinning the discs and a chance to get with the Armley ‘all action set’. I’m giving it a miss and saving myself for the penny a pint before half nine on Monday!
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Name this Leeds city centre pub…..it’s still there today although nothing else in the photo is!
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