If you can make it to Hull, Rockcity has a good dedicated kids area with castle battlements to scale (and a slide) which was pretty cool.
Kirkstall/Armley is trendy/hip these days then. I used to go swimming at Armley and Kirkstall baths I guess they might have gone now and when I left school my first job was at Kirkstall Forge just past the Abbey. I know the Forge has gone but presumably they can’t use the Abbey for building houses.
Quote from: webbo on September 18, 2018, 03:04:42 pmKirkstall/Armley is trendy/hip these days then. I used to go swimming at Armley and Kirkstall baths I guess they might have gone now and when I left school my first job was at Kirkstall Forge just past the Abbey. I know the Forge has gone but presumably they can’t use the Abbey for building houses. Kirkstall Forge is now the name of the new station, is that where the forge used to be? Down by the river?Edit: a cursory google reveals that it very likely was!
I was a resident of Kirkstall before it was up and coming, does that make me cool.
Whilst we're on a thread-derailing industrial history of the Aire Valley of Leeds, there used to be two huge cooling towers dominating the area! I never knew about these. This photo was taken near my house, it certainly doesn't look like that now!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkstall_Power_Station
Is that where the cinema etc is now?
Love the quintessential Yorkshireman in that photo. Flat cap, fag, newspaper, pint of milk under his arm I think. Just missing the whippet.