amazing memories thanks

im a leeds lad, born there 1961 and proud to be so, &, a lot of these places i know well, Even though many of the photo's were before my time. cheers for uploading.

thanks for this, interesting to see how places i know, and a once great industrial city has now changed. i have known bradford well since the 70's, and have lived in one of the better areas on the outskirts for almost 30 years now, but whenever anyone asks me where i live, i don't want to even acknowledge bradford at all, it's joke and a shithole now, and we all know why. the ridiculous woke 'city of culture' award for 2025 is totally pathetic, given to pacify just one culture, and it's not ours. i rarely go anywhere near the city now unless forced to, in part coz the standard of driving has to be the worst anywhere in the country.

Went there once in the 80s to watch oxford what a long trip😊

What you see in theses photos, was a thriving prosperous Huddersfield, with superb architectural buildings & local businesses, now all destroyed by successive incompetent, councils, this is my town, having lived & worked in Huddersfield for the last 56 years, was in the town centre last Saturday & there is nothing left except cheap ££ shops, tat shops & the latest phenomenon Vape shops, it's a crying shame, even Brighouse has more going for it over Huddersfield Town center 😕😕

Born in bradford in 1958 was dragged away in 67 to live in lancashire we went back on a visit in 1973 the house we lived in on st stevens road had gone but my old school ryan st juniors was still standing watching this brought back memories

I remember the old Huddersfield station buffet. Used to pop in there at lunch time for a treat. Did a great steak pie dinner. Catching the Newcastle loco afterwards. Both now gone! As you say now o my memories buried in time and dust! And eventually even memories of that time and place will be gone. Only images and writing will remain. Great images of a time once common now no more!

There are actual people in some of the pictures carrying shopping bags 😅😅

What's the big place at 4.43?

Crying shame to have gotten rid of this line. Would be useful today. It'll never be rebuilt.

It has taken me back to places I had forgotten. My granddad's old house in Holbeck. It was a back to back with three loos in a block, next doo but one. And we never used the end one, as it wasn't clean (or that is what we were told). And I remember ripping the newspaper into squares and threading string through to wipe your bum with. I even remember the man who lit the gas lights in the streets. Where we lived we had electric street lighting. God I'm getting old. Does anyone know if there are photos of the cooking plant that straddled the road from bramley to town? As a little one, I remember it looking amazing on dark winter nights with flames all around.

It's a shame to see such a magnificent building so derelict.

Very impressive. Lots of wealthy people buried there obviously. I wonder when they'll build houses on it? Nowhere is safe.

Just popped up myself do scout for a potential photoshoot. Not a good idea in August, weeds and nettles are shoulder high! Some of the electrical fittings suggest 1960s/70s. I'll be back! 👍

The stone was sold to a building contractor from the south of England by the then owner whose planing permission to turn it into an takeaway was rejected by the city Council. In response to this he sold the ston, he was ordered by the council to rebuild the castle hill pub using the original stones wear posable. Put because of his religion he refused to do so hens Huddersfield lost a marvellous public house.

Subbd from Issan Thailand Owt Leeds rd is good with me

Went to Leeds Road a few times watching the Clarets. Fine ground and I think our Longside was designed by the same architects who designed Huddersfield’s. Great memories in our then second division promotion season 1972 👍

One thing stands out. How clean and tidy Huddersfield was. The Parks full of flowering tulips and smart, unlike to day. What we have lost.

HTFC ALWAYS WILL REMEMBER THEM BECAUSE HERBERT CHAPMAN STARTED THERE HIS CAREER AND HE; PROVED TO BE S AN ALL TIME GREAT, WASN;T HAROLD WILSON, THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER A LOYAL SUPPPORTER OF THEM, ANS HUFC HAD HIS SHARE OF VERY GOOD PLAYERS IN HIS HISTORY.

A magnificent set of photos of my favourite station ( at least the wagon lifting tower is still there as a mini museum). Spent five great years there as a diesel loco service eng’r, very sad it was ultimately demolished. Best times then with Gresley and Peppercone locos etc.

Some very famous people come from Huddersfield no 1 most favourite person the chuckle brothers 😆😇

Thank you for the effort you put into these videos. Can anyone identify the large house at 11:17 please?

I enjoyed that, thank you. I am a Yorkshire lad and lived in Halifax for some time.

I love castle hill pub

People spent 100's of hours designing these structures, and other people spent 1000's of hours building them. Care and craftmanship all round.

Thank you - amazing just looking at what went before us- I wish I could walk those streets now. Everything seems less cluttered and tidier. People had less, but looked smarter even just walking down the street. We unfortunately are witnessing the collapse of British towns. Huddersfield was once a beautiful thriving town with people who looked after it.

Amazing collection of pubs that are no longer standing, pubs that have been redeveloped, and pubs that have hardly changed at all and are easily recognisable. And , of course, the biggest surprise was those few photos of pubs I never visited in my youth.

And transformed

I love the tombstones look like there in England.

I love this wonderful place--

i lived in lepton just outside huddersfield for 7 years in the 1970s. very happy times as a teenager with motor bikes then a triumph spitfie.

Loved that, thank you. I once caught a Peter Jackson header in the Cowshed. I remember being a bit miffed at the time because it didn’t go in. Now it’s a fond memory.

A fabulous collection of old images. It would be great to add more titles where these are known.

If stone could talk

I can still remember the trams on Harehills Road. thanks for bringing back some good old memories.

What a shame it’s going to rack and ruin 😔 lovely farm 😎

such short sentences for horrific deeds

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seen the planes but never been

Beautiful

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If this farm has been derelict since the 70s it could [not joking] be my family farm that we sold. We had a market garden from 1797 to about 1975. Now being in a far away Antipodean land of marsupials, I have no idea how to research that. Our farm was near Cleckheaton and Gomersal but I have no exact address. Some of the photos in my album have streets and buildings just like the ones in the background a minute in. In fact my grandparents were married in the Marsden gardens nearby. [I mean the early 20th century gardens, not anything there now!] I have a telescope that my grandfather got in a barter and it says on it "gomersal" and some people's names carved in who are unknown to me. It's a pugwash brass telescope.

Really interesting. I would have looked at the tracks in the street and thought tram. Thanks for making me aware of this. ❤

Impressive junction layout.

Thank you for posting great collection of photos

Went to King Jame's school and recently discovered my great great grandfather was born at Birks mill . Great photos

First game v Man City,lost 0-2 in April 64,next game April 65 saw Billy Legg score his first league goal v Rotherham in a 1-0 win,was there when 49,612 saw us lose to Owls in F.A.Cup,great memories.

what a loss

The pub at castle hill wasn't demolished because of the council, it was because the owners had building work done and didnt stick to what they was allowed to do so they got told to make it right but couldn't afford it so it got ripped down.

Just discovered your channel and lookung farward to more videos 😊 thank you 😊