My grandma and grandad used to run this pub, my mum grew up there 😢
@michaelwittmann26447 ай бұрын
Excellent photography, and the music is fitting.
@michaelwittmann26447 ай бұрын
Rita, Sue and Bob Too, written by the gifted but troubled local playwright Andrea Dunbar, is a no-holds-barred comedy-drama about two 15-year-old girls directed by Alan Clarke and was filmed here. If you have yet to see this 1987 hard-hitting comedy-drama, I highly recommend it. Excellent photography that perfectly captures the depressing and hopeless atmosphere.
@fairlyvague828 ай бұрын
02:12 Hunslet Grange aka Leek Street Flats aka Alcatraz! I was born there in ‘72.
@michaelw281611 ай бұрын
Spent a year at St Mick's in 1974, transplanted from Thomas Aquinas. Vaguely remember the hall, staircases and having lessons in those classrooms on the top floor.
@mandytinkler955311 ай бұрын
I did not know there was until now there was a south side lol
@mandytinkler955311 ай бұрын
I was born in leeds St Mary's, I grew up in L14 from 1070 to 1981 ,best time of my life ,I was gutted to leave at a early stage to move to the Lake District, I have lots of family in L14, I lived at studfold veiw ,I am 52 now and still class leeds my home town 💙
@mandytinkler955311 ай бұрын
1970 to 1981 ,
@jakeshaw1661 Жыл бұрын
They still have that mary statue to this day
@StevenSmall-j5f Жыл бұрын
9 years later , just stumbled upon this video , excellent, and a lovely soundtrack to go with it ,
@MrBeats44 Жыл бұрын
I appreciate the video, but the area is a totally 💩 hole full of low rent common folk
@theoneforgaveme Жыл бұрын
Im mr Middleton (midi) from leeds. I used to drink there Now live in the wirral. 🏴
@johnbartley3563 Жыл бұрын
Poor uneducated people! God bless them a shit hole for life!
@David-p3z3m Жыл бұрын
Hell on earth
@MegaVector2011 Жыл бұрын
Yep, got beaten to a pulp from a gang from Seacroft for no reason who followed me thought that underpass in the 90's, they left me to die in the road A64. Someone came out of a house and put me in an ambulance, otherwise I wouldn't be here.
@danharrodian Жыл бұрын
Quote from the effort to change this area: "What's the point of double gazing and central heating if they have no jobs..." Very true as it turned out.
@MarkJThrelfall Жыл бұрын
I used to play in there and on the roof as a kid, now in my 60s.. It had a nickname... Colditz.. Great times
@rickyperks3895 Жыл бұрын
God that a blast from past seacroft shopping centre
@bravo29662 жыл бұрын
The Parade right at the end there, from Saxton Gardens. I lived there in the 80s, remember in the Off License it was Mrs Ramsay, the bread shop Mrs Lyons and I think it was Brian and Audrey in the sweet/paper shop.
@arronspring26392 жыл бұрын
I lived on this estate for 8 years and never had no bother. It looks intimadating but the people where nice enough. Living there was an eye opener I don't think you'll find another estate in england with 12 10 story tower blocks on it lol
@matthewlovelock6928 Жыл бұрын
Glesga
@gavhinds81902 жыл бұрын
There needs to be a new video of this to show what's now gone..and what's in its place...the old beacon pub has sadly now gone..and it's place stands a waste ground of rubbish....I would have loved to have had a beer in there back in the 80s..
@gavhinds81902 жыл бұрын
Me and a few of my family were up here the other week..so much has changed..
@michaelwittmann26447 ай бұрын
For the better or worse?
@gavhinds81907 ай бұрын
@@michaelwittmann2644 well m8 where the beacon pub once stood where sues dad staggers out of its gone now all demolished and in its place when I went was a waste ground of rubbish...the area is certainly cleaner than it used to be but still rough as hell. ..Rita's house has gone and the flats where sue lived is now a green...
@michaelwittmann26447 ай бұрын
@@gavhinds8190 Hello, gavhinds. Thank you very much for responding. I didn't expect a reply so quickly, or one at all, but I decided to try anyway. For my own selfish reasons, it's a shame that those landmarks you mentioned are now gone. I would have liked to photograph them and experience what I saw in the movie. The locals must be delighted that the investment has improved their neighbourhood. Thanks again, dude👍😎.
@the_pigs_have_rebelled2 жыл бұрын
Concrete, Cortinas and Helvetica. Very 60s.
@johnnybhoy95782 жыл бұрын
How did he end up going this way, so we all know of him going to pc world, but before pc world, when did it all go wrong
@SimonSimon-rn3tm3 жыл бұрын
Another of this person's films who uses trash as background "music". Instead of wallowing in the degradation of these buildings, why don't you actively campaign to get them saved? "Urban explorers" make me sick: they are a curse and a liability, and do nothing but harm.
@SimonSimon-rn3tm3 жыл бұрын
The stinking row that accompanies this film is a disgrace: so insensitive and in such atrocious bad taste.
@janekeenan90993 жыл бұрын
From Blencarn Lawn many happy memories
@allotmentuk13033 жыл бұрын
I was a site planner on the Seacroft Shopping Centre ! was present when the Queen opened it there was one precinct with one side incomplete so we built just the front elevation with goods in the window all lit up just like a film set so her Majestydid not see a building site.
@christianzirid31113 жыл бұрын
That's my school mount st marys
@christianzirid31113 жыл бұрын
This is my school I'm in y10 going to y11 almost 15
@christianzirid31113 жыл бұрын
I go to this schiol
@christianzirid31113 жыл бұрын
That's my school
@christianzirid31113 жыл бұрын
I go to this school I'm in year 11 I wish I could go sneak in some people when I was in y7they would say that there is a ghost in the church
@thornbird67683 жыл бұрын
We had a play park just like this when my parents moved onto a brand new estate in the 70’s . It was the best , we loved it .
@the90sfattyfromtakethat3 жыл бұрын
It’s a shithole duck I would rather die than admit I live there
@gavhinds81903 жыл бұрын
What's this tune..love it.
@robert88843 жыл бұрын
Sh*thole. Parents unfortunately sent me there, in the 80's, from the other side of the city? Fondest memory was about 100 of us legging city of Leeds down the street out front all the way to the Clarendon Wing hospital.
@annedyer68433 жыл бұрын
Paul Dyer 1955 to 1960..Happy memories of the boxing club but not such happy memories of the trolley office...where the ferula ( strap) was administered...
@annedyer68433 жыл бұрын
Predictive text there..it should be tolley office..
@MrMouseTrap-w8k3 жыл бұрын
I got it hat school it’s bad
@rorymulvihill7443 жыл бұрын
I was 67-75 . So sad to see the state it got into. God rest all the ghosts of that vibrant past.
@lesliewoods13553 жыл бұрын
i used to live there in Carlton Towers
@jodeytowers86883 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in little London thanks for the video
@peterbuonaquisti5443 жыл бұрын
My grandmother worked in that Mill
@julianday4 жыл бұрын
The only time I went into this pub was on a hot summers day one afternoon in the 70s. Went to the bar to order a pint when a glass flew over the bar and smashed. The barman said excuse me , jumped over the bar , punched the kid and kicked him out. He then Jumped back over the bar and said was it a bitter you wanted.