LEEDS TRAMS

Short story by Alan Bennett recounting the trams of his childhood, and the time his Father took up the double bass.

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[waldenhouse]

Sorry, but this should have been told by a Yorkshireman, not a West Midland 'Brummie' - it has lost the inclanative effect.

[DuctTapeMyFace]

Hi there! Alan Bennet does sound better read in a Yorkshire accent, i agree. So what! Maybe there should belegislation for this sort of thing, "found in posession of a Midlands accent".

Shakespeare should be read with a Midlands accent you know?! It is especially lost in his poetry, as the words do not rhyme when not spoken in the Midlands accent, yet does anyone give a fluffy white turd about this? No! Alas, it was raining and i was bored, and i did not have a spare Yorkshireman to hand...

[thanxx]

well im a from Yorkshire born and bread and i aggree with you

infact i think tha's dunn'a a bloody good job lad.

believe it or not the opening picture is on gipton approach leeds 9 where i was brought up!! if you google earth gipton approach leeds9 you can still see the old tram track route up the centre of the road.

[DuctTapeMyFace]

Cheers chap! You've restored my faith in the milk of human kindness I tells ya, the sort that flows in particular abundance in Yorkshire, and damn all the other oily scrotumed nay-sayers!

[drigin1234]

The first photo is Gipton Gulch

[DADRENO]

Pity they didn't use Alan Bennet for the voice - instead of the Brummie!

Nowt wrong with Brummies - in their place. Yorkie

[wildcatfalling]

Interesting their was a huge incident back when,with tram heading down churwill hill,and people killed-circa 1937..

[fnslr308]

But - currently the truest spoken real life olde enger land is Barnsley South Yorks, very "hast thou" and "o'er yonder".

[fnslr308]

Oh yes, and that weird big metal thing at the floor where it met the drivers cab downstairs.

Born 1959 I've still got a few scars from when my bike wheel got caught in the metal tram tracks, they were at the car park to rear of oakwood Clock and what is not the car park at Roundhay Park oppo tennis courts.

Parents recalled that trams went to Lawnswood Cemetary then they'd walk to Golden Acre Leisure Park (see picture on cafe wall there)

[johnmik67]

I was born in the Chapeltown area in 1967. I can't lie to you saying I remember the trams. I grew up with the double deckers. That classical smell of the engine when you sat downstairs. I even remember the bus conducter with his ticket machine. Good old days.

[manniemain]

Known as the Gipton Gulch. It was excavated quite deeply so that non airbraked cars could traverse it.