chapeltown leeds

[thewhippetbeans]

enjoyed that , hazy student memories rollin back!

[devtherevLS]

Harehills and Chapeltown have been with problems in the past...but as a white person I enjoy walking down Chappy Road or up Harehills Lane as I get a real good sense of multiculturalism and all sorts of cultures blending together. It's a nice feeling.

Compare that to other parts of Leeds such as Gipton, Seacroft, Belle Isle, Halton Moor, Bramley, etc where it's just white trash in council house after another, areas with no identity, where you'll get started on just for not being round there.

[danielpankhurst]

this is sik

[26wordy]

I used to love a nice relaxing pint of smooth and a game of dominoes in the Hayfield pub, then they starting with the ammo vending machines in the toilets and putting crack in the KP nuts and it wasn't as nice an atmosphere then.

[laggymam]

How about chapel town road 2? brilliant song, Warm bagels,toots and the maytals down chapel town road, The strippers on the Gaity pub,the working girls giving the dirty old men a rub up down the chapel town road?

[laggymam]

What a great song,come across it last year,nothing stays the same every thing changes? just like the song says,catchey tune magic....thanks..

[sylontuk]

mrheadingley@ harehills and chapeltown aint the place to be goin on racist , you'll get beeeeets bruv . i live in beeston and all man coming round here shouting n.f bollox at asians get beeeeets bruv . they dont give a fuck who you are and who your family are or your mates just beeeeeeets bruv . fuck racism im not colour im a boy mush . and my boys are boys we are leeds boys . racisms gone blue and died mush .

[rylaneirl]

LOVE IT !!!!

[matcoop]

Great video Garry. Song is ace also.

[egglord72]

They've knocked down the Prince Arthur the bastards!

[nightgrooveruk]

WOW Remembering living over the Barbers & Fresh fish shop on Markham Avenue ~*~ walking to the blues from one 2 another ~*~ back then safe as houses ~*~ awesome times ~*~ thank you for the awesome video ~*~ Namaste Jah ~*~

[thehighjacker22]

good old harehills ust to be some place in its day man

[grizzwild1]

used to live on grange ave next but one to obi singhs shop, he would sell you tree rizla one cig & 3 matches 4 20 p. cosmo club on a sat night then on to 99 or cliffs blues, good old times,but edgy 4 a white boy with a black girlfriend. simon

[StolenMonkey]

@grizzwild1 tree rizlas ?

[erictheviking871]

i cant stop playing this ere tune wonderfull reminds me of when i was 25 cherrywine n morrocon squidgy black ha ha i had a crazy scottish girlfreind at the time summer of 89 was brill time goes to quick man

[trippy119]

mrheadingley@ you are a spineless wimp!..why have you removed your racist comment? what are you scared of?...soft bastard

[tom271288]

you fukin buzzin ur from mexborough street haaha beggin it

[erictheviking871]

i hada betsit up there in 88 89 had sum gud times eh u had 2 b on u toes in that gaitey bar though

[TheRHINOS1]

Gr8 track, who is it? I used 2 go 2 Bracken Edg primary & walk thru Potternewton park every day - good times lol. Spencer place tho man, if u want sum pussy (likely wit diseases) - go 2 Spencer place

[imsofuckingbored]

Am Frm CPT

Mexbrough Street !

[leedshunk]

that's an amazing piece of social history , thanks for posting !!!!

[fnslr308]

At 0:55 the derelict pub is the Gaiety.

As a kid in the 60's there was a old cinema - long since shut there.

Stopped driving through when some dumb "locals" outside the Hayfield chucked half a brick at the car 1994.

Luckily this hit the window frame rather than the back nearside window with Baby Daughter alseep.

Sub-human

[LollieSmith]

Has reginald street been demolished?

[johnmik67]

Hi LollieSmith. All you have to do is go onto google and type your street name. You will be able to see with your own eyes. After 25 years being in Italy, I saw Louis Street and the house where I was born.

[Danny011189]

awesome, i was born in hairhills, lived there till i was 7 or 8 i think, remember used to just wander about everywere place was friendly, now im 19 and dont dare go there...

[djxp6]

im allways in cpt @ pottern newtan park and dutch pot

[johnmik67]

I was born near Chapeltown. In Louis Street near Holy Rosary Church. My life was normal just like any kid born there. I went to Earl Cowper Middle school. All my best friends were West Indian, or Indian or Pakistanies. I left England when I was 17. How many times I walked Chapeltown to go to the Polish Church with my dad.

[garryentropy]

used to go to holy rosary church every sunday and then to the jewish bakery for bagels. chapeltown was like a little new york, spencer place was like harlem and harehills was like the south side of chicago, in the best possible way, maybe thats why we live abroad now needing the cosmopolitan elan that chapeltoqwn endowed us with.

best garry entropy

[johnmik67]

Thanks for your reply. Anyway thanks to google earth I arrived right infront of my house. I walked all around the block even to behind my house. It hasn't changed 1 bit in 25 years. Everthing else has changed. Even my middle school is still there but has changed name. Chapeltown has changed a lot though.

[deeveyboy]

What year ae these photo's from?

[killtoneTV]

This is just brilliant. Thanks for making and posting this. It's my area, makes me proud!! Bless!

[cardboardtiger]

Interesting buildings in Leeds

[fnslr308]

Yeah used to be an ok area, saw Pere Ubu at Fforde Greene.

But then some dumb "usual suspects" sat on the wall by the Hayfield threw a brick at my car which (by the Lords Mercy) just missed my baby daughter in the back seat.

So I skirt round - but never go through - the area.

[angelmarrocco]

we know that harehills lane

and potternewton park

easterley road isn't chapeltown

we're just reminiscing

Talk about Headingley and Oak tree next

[garryentropy]

skyrack oak packhorse across the gravestones through the uni faversham

climb in toilet window at uni watch dammed or stranglers

[deeveyboy]

Great song and everything but 1 little mistake Easterley road isn't part of chapeltown.

[VCK9009]

Neither is Harehills Lane. Potternewton Park isn't really CPT either.

[angelmarrocco]

I remember Rendezvous and

large shop opp called

leeds home services

area was pretty dodge then

Some of the elerly Jewish remembered it as a posh place in their youth.

remembered Strega of course never ventured near - very bad name -local mafia haunt.

clock cinema wonderfully posh

thanks for the vid

[garryentropy]

first film i saw was the ten commandments at the clock cinema and i am sure there was a fountain in the lobby and tuxedo wearing ushers, must of been the late sixties

[angelmarrocco]

yes you are so right

it was such a demure place compared to the other cinema i

I can remember that lobby with the fountain and the uniformed doorman and usherettes

Can't remember the name of other cinema - it was great packed and rowdy

[garryentropy]

warm bagels at the jewish bakerery on chapeltown road at junction of leopold street opposite the synagogue on suday mornings

[angelmarrocco]

returning from the in time great saturday night out day

joining long queue to buy those bagels

blast from the past

thank you gary

[DonDass007]

yo release this shit man. let it blow up in leeds

[sard37]

I grew up in this area, we lived on Gathorne Terrace and i went to Earl Cowper middle school on Cowper street.

I was one of two white boys in my class and loved it, have fond memories.

Did anyone see the Specials at Pottern Newton park?

[garryentropy]

didnt see the Specials at potty park but Aswad were good

[imsofuckingbored]

Big Tune

nd Hold Tyt Chapeltwn AKA CPT 4 lyff

[ShanksySAFC]

great track

[DonSimonUK]

Chapeltown is a better place than it used to be...All the crime - Drugs, especially since the Hayfield got knocked down, has been reduced...Not saying it is totally wiped out, of course there will always be crime anywhere.

Word is out, that there will be a "village green" on the old site of the Hayfield.

[LEEDS8]

My mum and dad met in the rendezvous and I grew up at the bottom of Spencer Place as a white lad and in the day you couldnt have wished for a closer community great place......in its day, but great memories.

[angelmarrocco]

jimmy saviles favourite haunt in the 60s

[LollieSmith]

Its still his fave haunt. He lives on Roundhay

[angelmarrocco]

he goes to flying pizza now

hasn't been down to rendezvous for over 40years

[mubbbu]

Chapletown lad here, anyone go to Scothall school?

[thefrecklepuny]

@mubbbu Yep, I did! What year did you attend?

[kellysomers]

nice song

[LollieSmith]

Im afraid ive only heard of it because of the ripper. Nice to see a different aspect.

[Trixiemalixie100]

this is a beautiful video! we live on gathorne terrace and big up the chapeltown massive and anything in past times!! woop.

[tescoskick]

BLACKS

[ElementalHeroAMW]

lol i live in chapeltown

[achuchablee]

who cares if it aint a great area, subdub is there and that is all that matters :P

[currytop]

thanx 4 dat u 4got da rendezvous cafe aX from Gaity Club fanx 4 da memorys

[Bubbblykittypuppy]

what a shithole area

[haroon247]

yh ur rite

[rinseout2000]

Council estate

[Urbanculturekid]

and nice lyrics btw

[Urbanculturekid]

like nice what did hapen to chapel town

[r217evl]

Yardies

[Tomslaterholmes]

haha cool :P

you never lived in chapeltown did u ?