High Street – 1969
This is the lower end of the High Street looking directly across to Town Street (The Steep).
On the left is Ivegate with Silver Lane with Westminster Bank going to the right.
Martin’s the cleaners is at the corner with Town Hall Square, this property is currently Tea Cosies café (2014).
The shop on the right with the blind down is Rigg’s butchers.
High Street – 1970s
On the left is the Co-op store at the junction with Marshall Street, this is now a frozen food outlet with an Italian restaurant occupying the upper floors.(March 2013)
Moving right, a branch of the Westfield fish and chip shop then Ben Eastwood’s carpets.
The last two shops are now an estate agents and a dress shop(March 2013).
The cleared ground was the site of the Lecture Hall, shops have since been built here, in the background is a removal van belonging to the firm of Walsh.
The roundabout at Albert Square is just out of view on the right.
High Street – 1970s
Late 1970s, looking across from the end of Silver Lane to the High Street.
On the left edge is the Post Office with the sign on the wall.
Opposite, the market stalls are on Town Hall Square, the building behind is Yeadon Library. Moving right Crockatt’s dry cleaners is at the corner, next David’s Timber DIY shop then R W & W E Cliffe newsagents and on the right Oxfam shop.
High Street – 1978
No: 80 High Street, it is for sale. The agents are Ackroyd, Dent & Co, 61 High Street, Yeadon, with a Rawdon telephone number.
The house is described as a Victorian residence.
Next, Walsh Vehicle Repairs Ltd, the business address is Vermont House.
Adjacent to the door with 4 horizontal panes is another door leading upstairs to a warehouse of smoke-damaged goods known as “Smokey Joes”.
Ironically, this business was destroyed by fire!
High Street – 1979
A damp market day in Yeadon, the market stalls on the left are on Town Hall Square.
At the corner of the Square is Crockatt’s dry cleaners, the next 2 shop units were David’s Timber D. I .Y stores, then on the right R W & W E Cliffe newsagents. This photograph was originally taken on a 35mm slide and has been digitally transferred for us by John Hobson.
High Street – 1970s
View from the end of Cemetery Road, Harper Lane is to the left with the Clothiers pub at the corner with the High Street. A traffic island in the middle of the road has been replaced by a roundabout.
To the left of the image is the fish and chip shop and in front of that is the old Wood Hut, where you could purchase sweets, tobacco and fishing licences for the Dam.
Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw. 11 May 2021.
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