Mary Fisher wrote:
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Mary Fisher wrote:

... This house was bought new by my mother's sister
and it will be left to our grandchildren (I'd like to see the ten of
them sort out how to use it!)

Mmm, could be interesting, (your last comment)!

Yes. They range from 2 to 22.

I spent 4 years in Leeds, ('68 to '72 I think). LS2 - there's a
clue! I still have fond memories. I used to sail on the flooded
gravel pit at Pool, spent many a day walking around the reservoirs
at Eccup and adjacent. Also, of course, The Cow and Calf. Still have
a friend living just under that!

Must be uncomfortable ...

Did you have to take me so literally?

Do you recall Whitelocks? Is it still there?

I used to go in my misspent youth but no longer. I think it's still
there, one of the Tourist Attractions. Hardly ever go into town
except the Farmer's Market once a month. We hate shopping and anyway
we have everything we need and don't want anything more than that.

Used to be the only place that sold Scottish & Newcastle No.3. T'was
a wonderful brew that I'd take after having gone to the market on a
Saturday.

Well yes, when I was that age I knew every pub in West Yorkshire. We
change though, don't we!

Here's a test: what's the name (now or then) of the one at the
crossroads at Poole Bank?

I still have some work relationships with the City - University, but
rarely visit - the last occasion was about a year ago when attending
a conference at the University accommodation in Woodhouse.

We're in Chapeltown. The first ten years of my life were spent in
Woodhouse, in the Servias. I went to Meanwood Road School then
Allerton High. My earliest memories are of All Soul's Church
(Blackman Lane), Woodhouse Moor playground, library and fairs. The
Parkinson Building inspired me with awe in those days but later, when
I had friends who were using the University, it just seemed full of
scruffy youngsters. You might have been one ... :-)

I'll have you know that I was an erudite young person! Well, most of the
time.

A son lives up the road, another at Kirkstall. Yet another moves house
frequently (RAF), a daughter in France and another with a farm in
Wales complete the litter. I think they've finished spawning - I hope
they have - but great grandchildren might loom :-(

Kirstall - if I recall correctly - was where YTV was based. I recall
getting a lift from Jess Yates back to Wales. That was many moons ago!

Where in Wales?

I came from under the gooseberry bush in Bangor and spent my youth in N
Wales and also worked in Mold for a short while later on. I still have a
sailing boat yng Gnonwy, (in Conwy).

'Appended that I was mulling over a pint with a friend that hails from
Leeds "this evening". Curiously, his daughter now lives back in his
former locale and for the past two years he has been Santa at the church
he used to attend as a youngster!