The Streets of Leeds in 93

[@kevinkibble8342]

It's amazing how nearly 30 years later and so many of it is still recognisable. A lot of history in the buildings around Leeds, that's for sure.

[@johnnygorner3220]

Watched from beginning to the end. Leeds born and bred since 1971. Great video 👍

[@susanduncan8705]

Thank you for the upload, Where the vlog starts I served my apprentice ship and worked at John Curtis Shopfitters 1976 till 1983,walked through those wooden gates a few times over the years,Happy days . Living in Norfolk now . John D.

[@stephentyndall159]

Love these old video's. I was 15, it's brilliant to see it all like this again.

[@Yasamin37]

What a gem thank you

[@albaproductions9602]

Left Leeds in sept 93, went back for a visit in june 22, couldn't believe how much it had changed.

[@kristianTV1974]

Moved to Elsham Terrace, just off the Kirkstall Road, in October 93. Yes, as a student. Still love Leeds and over 30 years later, my kid is thinking of studying there too.

[@nathandalke9318]

I was 12 years old when this was film this was before KZbin what a classic footage especially in 2023 from the USA 🇺🇸

[@seankirby2580]

Thank you. My Dad used to work at Kirkstall Forge, right at the end of your video and we lived opposite, in Vesper Gate Mount. I can't believe it was 25 years ago.

[@sneezymonkey]

I love old videos back from when filming everyday life wasn't a thing!

[@jeanboston310]

I loved Leeds it’s such a big city. I like all the tall tower blocks . My twin lived in cotingley heights right over eland road. Thanks jean Ross and Andrew 🤘🤘❤️❤️

[@blueglassesgirluk9445]

Remember this as a teen I still live in leeds now and drive these streets :)

[@safirahmed]

The biggest changes are in the skyline of Leeds and road changes such as cycle lanes and pedestrianisation.

[@bobstermaher]

Love my city always have always will. The amount of pubs gone nightclubs gone things popped up is unreal. It's not the biggest city centre but it works when you are out on a sesh

[@clairebrennan2218]

Amazing thank you for sharing with all the old fogies of the 80s lol x

[@WiggysanWiggysan]

Straight away I knew the video was starting outside of what is now is Gary Don's & opposite Hughes Funeral Home. I should know it, I walk down that street 5 times a week !

[@davidtea740]

Amazingly nostalgic. In the early 90s I was living in Leeds, and I drove a Capri.

[@momentsofyesterday]

@davidtea740 I hope yours was better than mine. Water accumulated in the footwells the steering shuddered almost out of my hands under braking and I kept getting immobilised by blockages in the carb.

[@Sorbus79]

@@momentsofyesterday Was it a 1.6L? My brother had a similar mk III, with the two pod dash and 4 speed box. I still have a 2.0S

[@LordFlashheart.11]

Thats a Capri!!!! Had 53 of them and still have 2! Is that a 1.6 pinto???? Wish i could go back to those days.

[@bobstermaher]

Used to congregate in that carpark behind the old abc cinema after the gallery had closed at 2am. Tunes pumping from car stereos until 4am happy days

[@OoohAaah6603]

I worked at gallery after it became pleasure rooms,Leeds was a top place for a night out in the early mid 90s

[@martynlee7473]

This takes me back ❤

[@MaitreMark]

I'm watching this in 1983 and the future looks fine.

[@jolybrennan9767]

Fuck me I used to miss that turn off near the swimming pool every time! Had a shit Astra and thought I was the dogs bollocks. Then had a Cavalier and the rest is history. Love this video!

[@frogdigy]

straight in to the nostalgia with the car engine sound

[@tumslucks9781]

Flat 4s sound dreadful. Cheapskate Brit cars.

[@frogdigy]

​@@tumslucks9781and? Nostalgia doesn't always sound good

[@tumslucks9781]

@@frogdigy Those cheapskate Brit cars certainly don't. 😜

[@ivanfernyhough3851]

​@tumslucks9781 good job this isn't a flat four then isn't it numbnuts.this is a overhead cam pinto engine and they are great engines.

[@TheColeman83]

The skyline is very different today that's for sure

[@soundseeker63]

Along Whitehall Road is totally unrecognisable now! So many shiny office blocks that sit half empty.

[@loshshoe]

It would take a lot longer than 15 minutes to drive that route today!

[@momentsofyesterday]

It would have usually done then too, this was a Sunday morning.

[@loshshoe]

@@momentsofyesterday Ahhhh... That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for sharing the video BTW.

[@jogon7950]

Thanks for posting. 93 sounds recent but Whitehall Rd & Monk Bridge ? Iron Works brooding presence all gone

[@hilts6475]

I remember the old jolly green giant store on Whitehall road and the old evening post building

[@Mr_Dimplezz]

I was 9 years old and robbing loads of toys from jolly giants 😂 😂 I would make my way from Hyde Park ls6 to the store on my ones. Can't let yer kids wander these days though too many wrong uns about.

[@craigmullen9046]

I'm a Manchester lad but I lived in Leeds from 2011 to 2014 Armley and Morley went past kirkstall Abbey a few times.

[@imkirbo3094]

Mental, you drove right by where my shop is now, it would have been built just a couple years after this video, now it's falling down lol

[@thesunleedscity4928]

Leeds is beautiful and evry day more beautiful 25/01/2021 🇬🇧🇬🇧🕌🕌🕌♥️❤️🌷💚🇬🇧👍🕌

[@thomaspickard4138]

Thanks for sharing

[@Wagoo]

Cheers, didn’t expect to end up going past Kirkstall Abbey :)

[@leedsman54]

So much change yet so much the same.

[@bobstermaher]

Alot of money has been spent in Leeds centre, yiu can tell. Compare it to Bradford, which is 10 miles away and it's like it's in a time warp 70s style

[@faramd3762]

the first ever dashcam - guy must be worth a fortune

[@SAS-qf3qh]

This was on iPhone 📲 - 12 😂

[@danielshutt1557]

Great to see how much nicer the streets were without bloody bike lanes and bus gates everywhere

[@albertatlock]

Engine sounds knackered.

[@nickyboy.]

Ford Capri?

[@andrewsenior679]

Take me back!

[@bond0666]

Looks more advanced back then lol 😆 😂 🤣

[@danielca8095]

What type of car was it?

[@charlesworth8699]

Capri

[@leightonrawlings3971]

Look NO rubbish electric cars like now, proper simple cars back then.......and NO speed cameras either!!!!!!!

[@darrendonbavand8924]

CHECK IT OUT AT 7.30..on the left..JOLLY GIANT TOY SHOP ...I WAS 18 AT THE TIME ...FLIPPIN HECK...THAT TAKES ME BACK ...IM LOOKING OUT FOR ME IN THIS ONE :-)

[@blueglassesgirluk9445]

To left at top kirkstall road there is a hotel I worked there in 1996 in this video it’s not even built! We used to have a fire from Yorkshire tv stay there

[@easydrive3662]

the skyline of leeds has changed so much with its huge skyscraper buildings present now making the skyline look amazing, and the city centre has literally doubled in size and is to expand even more. leeds and mancs are certainly the 2 cities that really have grown the most over the last 30years, back in the 70s and 80s leeds was a bit dull and grey but it was around 93 onwards that things really changed

[@bobstermaher]

Manchester city centre is vast compared to Leeds. Too big to get about if yiu don't know where to go. And Manchester is, like a village compared to London!

[@easydrive3662]

​​@@bobstermahernah once u get used to mancs its easy to get around, plans to double size of leeds cc which is happening, both cities are large in terms of motorways and dual carriageway networks, large juncs, leeds with its inner ring road and tunnels etc but yes i agree mancs is a very big place for sure

[@SDE1994]

as younger person and i dont know Leeds well, i didnt recognise anywhere until 8:50

[@HeyButWhy]

but was the MI5 building there in 93?

[@kirkhunter146]

Yes, clearly the DWP building was there, it was built in 1987.

[@jimsgarage3311]

Engine ?

[@nearly1980]

Haha people been speeding in that inside lane upto the gyratory since forever then!?!

[@mileswilliams1585]

mk3 capri?

[@momentsofyesterday]

Yes MK3

[@gganqokb]

Lovely he went past my house

[@Eurostang]

Nice Capri

[@joaquinguzman8315]

quick trip around the red light district of Holbeck! LOL.

[@paulbarrett22]

only area i recognised

[@leedsman54]

I think it was around this time that the red light area moved to Holbeck. I worked on Domestic Street and used Holbeck Lane post office. I was quite surprised to be propositioned just outside it one evening as I hadn’t realised that was the case.

[@archstanton8670]

I thought Spencer Place and Gathorne Terrace were the prozzie streets??

[@DavidLewis-i6h]

Walter Trace

[@johnmknox]

Leeds minus the bl00dy bike lanes, reduced motorist lanes and increased congestion. Bliss.

[@kirkhunter146]

No, if you look there wasn't as much traffic then, the things you don't like are needed because there is now too much traffic.

[@jimsgarage3311]

V6

[@wythenshawekid1597]

Slow down

[@brittania1974]

Leeds was always very depressing to me, especially in the 1980s. I can't quite put my finger on it, It always filled me with despair each and every time I had to go there on weekends to visit my mothers side of the family. It was just a very character less and baron landscape that seemed to be trapped in time, I just couldn't bear it. Simply Horrible place.

[@johnfisher697]

Still the same now, nothing changes right..

[@jolybrennan9767]

Fuck me I used to miss that turn off near the swimming pool every time! Had a shit Astra and thought I was the dogs bollocks. Then had a Cavalier and the rest is history. Love this video!