Leodis latest Armley photographs

Fitzarthur Street, nos.2-8, Tong Road no.106, demolition

1980s. View shows a block of terraced housing in the process of demolition, with a digger in the foreground. From the left are nos.8 to 2 Fitzarthur Street, with no.106 Tong Road ...

Tong Road, no.210, demolition

c1970s. View shows no.210 Tong Road in the process of demolition. St. Bartholomew's Church can be seen through the doorway which is virtually all that remains of the building.

Armley, street clearance around St. Bartholomew's Church

c1980s. View shows a cleared area beside St. Bartholomew's Church, which is visible in the background. Possibly looking from Fitzarthur Street, from where a digger is seen in the ...

Fearnley Street, nos.1-7, Tong Road no.104, demolition

1980s. View shows a block of back-to-back properties in the process of demolition. On the left end are shop premises at no.104 Tong Road then houses follow on numbered 1-7 Fearnle...

Back United Terrace, from Grasmere Street, demolition

1980s. View from Grasmere Street looking along Back United Terrace, showing terraced housing in the process of demolition. These are through terraces, the block on the left facing...

Fitzarthur Street, nos.2-8, Tong Road no.106, demolition

1980s. View showing a block of terraced houses in the process of being demolished. From the left are nos.8 to 2 Fitzarthur Street then on the end, mostly hidden behind a digger, i...

Armley Methodist Church, Whingate, group photograph

10th May 1987. Image shows members of the congregation of Upper Armley Methodist Church gathered together for the final service held on Sunday 10th May 1987. The church was to be ...

Crab Lane to Armley Road

2009. View of Crab Lane looking in the direction of Armley Road.

Armley Road, The Albion

1st January 2010. This view from Canal Street looking across the railway line to Armley Road centres on The Albion public house, with Albion Way to the right of it. The view looks...

Armley Road, The Albion

1st January 2010. View of Armley Road showing The Albion public house, which has closed down.

Armley Road, The Albion

1st January 2010. View of Armley Road showing The Albion public house, which appears to have closed down. Industrial units are being advertised as To Let on Albion Way just off th...

Armley Road, The Albion

1st January 2010. View of Armley Road showing The Albion public house, which appears to have closed down. Albion Way is on the right, with industrial units being advertised as To ...

Armley Road, The Albion

1st January 2010. View of Armley Road showing The Albion public house, which appears to have closed down. Formerly two pubs, the other one being The Fleece, they merged to form Th...

Armley Road, The Albion

1st January 2010. Side view of The Albion public house on Armley Road. Built in the 1860s as two shops, and later becoming two pubs (the other one being The Fleece), they were mer...

Armley Road, The Albion

1st January 2010. View of The Albion public house on Armley Road, which is closed. The building dates from the 1860s when it comprised of two shops, one originally a beerhouse whi...

Town Street, looking north-west

1st January 2010. View of Town Street looking north-west from the junction with Wortley Road. The Barleycorn public house, which has closed down, is in the centre adjoined with tw...

Town Street, The Barleycorn

1st January 2010. View of Town Street showing the Barleycorn public house in the centre, which has closed down. To the right of this are two more vacant premises which are adverti...

Town Street, The Barleycorn

1st January 2010. View of Town Street showing, in the foreground, two empty premises advertised as being 'For sale', then next to them the Barleycorn public house, which is also c...

Town Street, The Barleycorn

1st January 2010. View of Town Street showing the Barleycorn public house, which has closed down in the centre. On the right are two vacant premises displaying 'For Sale' notices....

Armley Park, plaque depicting an angel

c2000. Image shows a plaque in Armley Park with relief carving depicting a winged angel. It dates from the late nineteenth century and is manufactured from glazed terracotta, poss...

War Memorial, Armley Park

c2000. View of the war memorial in Armley Park constructed in the form of a gothic wayside chapel and which is grade II listed. The entrance to the war memorial is on the north si...

Professor Smith, portrait of a ventriloquist

Undated. Postcard portrait of 'Professor Smith, Ventriloquist'. This studio image shows the dapper young man smartly dressed in white tie and probably tails. He is sporting a waxe...

'Just a Line from Armley', Tinted Postcard

c1908. Tinted postcard, written and posted in 1908, showing a view of one of Armley's streets of red-brick terraced homes, very typical of the area. Monday was traditionally 'wash...

Charley Cake Park, tinted postcard

c1907. Tinted postcard view of Charley Cake Park, (the formal name was Whingate Park.) This was originally a patch of waste ground owned by the Gott family who exchanged it for a ...

Branch Road, postcard view

c1907/1908. Early postcard view showing Branch Road from the junction with Canal Road. Several people and a dog are visible standing in Branch Road. The main focus of the image is...

Canal at Redcote, postcard view

c1907/1908. Early postcard view showing a horse on the canal towpath as it pulls a barge with Redcote Bridge as a backdrop. This is where Redcote Lane crosses the Leeds and Liverp...

Chapel at Armley Hill Top Cemetery

2010. View shows the Chapel at Armley Hill Top Cemetery, surrounded by gravestones. Situated on Green Hill Road, the cemetery was opened by Ephraim Barnsbee Esq., Chairman of Arml...

St. Mary's Hospital, exterior view

1960s. View shows part of St. Mary's Hospital taken in the 1960s. This building, which faces onto Green Hill Road, was the main administrative and accommodation block. On the grou...

Tong Road, tram no.581

10th May 1954. View of Tong Road showing tram no.581, on route 18 to Crossgates, stopping to pick up passengers. This is an ex-London 'Feltham' tram which came to Leeds in 1950. I...

Tong Road, tram no.551

23rd February 1952. View of Tong Road showing tram no.551, on route 16 to the New Inn. An ex-London 'Feltham' tram, it has an advert for Mackeson's Stout on its side. In the backg...

Tong Road, tram no.539

23rd February 1952. View showing tram 539 outside John Ratcliff & Sons Ltd., printers engineers, at no.280 Tong Road. This tram, here bound for Crossgates on route 18, is one of t...

Tong Road, junction with Whingate, tram no.531

16th July 1956. View of Tong Road from the junction with Whingate. Tram no.531 is just turning onto Whingate, nearing its terminus there on route no.15. This is one of the ex-Lond...

Tong Road, tram no.510

21st July 1956. View of Tong Road showing tram no.510, on route 15 to Whingate. This is one of the 'Felthams' which arrived in Leeds from London in 1950. On the left of the pictur...

Christ Church, Armley, interior, Postcard

Undated. Interior of the Church built on land donated by the Gott family.

Lantern Lane, Pasture Hills.

Undated. View of Lantern Lane, Pasture Hills, an ancient right of way which runs between Brown's Field, of Pasture's Farm, to Redcote. It was the route taken by millworkers travel...

Lantern Lane.

22nd August 2009. This leafy path is well known to locals as Lantern Lane as it is an ancient route used from the early 19th Century by generations of millworkers. They would leav...

Lantern Lane.

22nd August 2009. View shows part of Lantern Lane near Armley Golf Course. It was part of an old right of way which ran from Brown's Field of Pasture's Farm to Redcote. From the e...

Lantern Lane.

22nd August 2009. Image shows Lantern Lane as it crosses Armley Golf Course. This ancient right of way was used for many years by mill workers who walked from Armley to Burley eac...

Lantern Lane.

22nd August 2009. Image shows part of Lantern Lane, an ancient right of way used by mill workers from the early 19th Century to walk to and from their homes in Armley and the mill...

Armley Road, tram

Undated. View showing tram no.232, a brush-bodied Horsfield built in 1931, travelling along Armley Road. This tram was scrapped on 8th August 1956.

Heights Drive, number 209, little girl seated on outhouse steps

c1959. Image shows a little girl seated on the outhouse steps of number 209 Heights Drive, part of a newly built estate. In the background there is the large chimney belonging to ...

View from Westerly Croft, looking north-west

13th April 1964. Right-hand one of a series of 3 photographs taken from Westerly Croft, a block of flats at the junction of Armley Road and Stanningley Road, that fit together to ...

View from Westerly Croft, looking west

13th April 1964. Central one of a series of 3 photographs taken from Westerly Croft, a block of flats at the junction of Armley Road and Stanningley Road, that fit together to for...

View from Westerly Croft, looking south-west

13th April 1964. Left-hand one of a series of 3 photographs taken from Westerly Croft, a block of flats at the junction of Armley Road and Stanningley Road, that fit together to f...

View from Westerly Croft, looking east

13th April 1964. Photograph taken from Westerly Croft, a block of flats that had recently been built by the junction of Armley Road and Stanningley Road. This view looks east acrs...

View form Westerly Croft, looking south

13th April 1964. Photograph taken from Westerly Croft, a block of flats that had recently been built at the junction of Armley Road and Stanningley Road. The view looks south acro...

Hill Top, Armley Common Rights Trust bench

24th January 1965. View of a cast-iron bench support at Hill Top on land opposite the Traveller's Rest public house, provided by the Armley Common Rights Trustees. Still in existe...

The Gang, street name sign

6th February 1966. View of a street name sign for The Gang, an alley leading off Town Street, taken shortly before it was demolished. 'Gang' is possibly an old English word for wa...

Armley Moor, Babies Welcome

5th June 1965. View of the Armley Babies Welcome Clinic at the edge of Armley Moor. This was a branch of the Leeds Babies Welcome Association, a charity providing centres for moth...

Lyric Picture House, Tong Road

Undated. View of the brick built Lyric Picture house in Tong Road. The 900 seater cinema was designed by architects, Jones & Stocks of Leeds and opened on Saturday 9th December 19...