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History of Wellington Street in Leeds

Geography Juice

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Wellington Street in Leeds is one of the main thoroughfares out of the city which recently celebrated 200 years of change and innovation. Using old photographs, maps and current clips, this video describes its history.

0:00 Wellington Street Leeds
0:33 Location of Wellington Street
0:48 Origins of Wellington Street
1:32 Benjamin Gott's Bean Ing Mills
2:11 Wellington Bridge Leeds
3:08 Benjamin Gott
3:36 Bean Ing Mills
4:18 Yorkshire Post Building
4:50 St Philips Church
5:35 Back-to-back terraced houses
5:58 128-142 Wellington Street
6:36 City Square Leeds
7:13 Leeds Royal Visit 1908
7:47 Queen's Hotel Leeds
8:41 Leeds Central Station
9:13 Royal Mail House Leeds
9:47 Regeneration
10:28 Outro

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19 Comments

@samanthabaines3578 4 years ago

I have many happy memories of arriving at the old coach station on Wellington street to visit relatives.

@guitarkeyboard7976 4 years ago

Your videos are great. I’ve wanted to learn about the history of Leeds for a while, but haven’t been able to find any good videos. These are great.

@Joy_Renewed 3 years ago

Great video, I grew up in the old Salvation Army hostel building which had the entrance on Lisbon street, the hostel was expanded onto Grove street in the 1970s and the old hostel became the home of the hostel managers (my parents). Loved that place and it was so nice to remember the old street, played in the old train buildings many times.

@AaBb-id1dm 4 years ago

I love this series of vides mate. Thank you. Very interesting and full of information that you can’t find elsewhere. Good to learn a bit about Leeds. The city doesn’t really do itself justice with its lack of museums

@paul234884 4 years ago

The Napoleonic wars certainly had a significant influence on place names in Leeds.

@DICECLUB 1 year ago

06:38 - City Square: all changed now even in just 3 years since this was filmed. Pedestrianised, no through traffic and new buildings. Even that green cycle lane is gone now. And as someone who lives on Wellington Street (for 15+ years) I like the improvements.

@fredthebass185 2 years ago

Thanks for another interesting video about my birth city. Best wishes from Spain.

@jonathanhall7334 4 years ago

I worked at Royal Mail House from 1989 until it closed at the end of 1998

@Foddeur 4 years ago

Very informative! I quite liked the overlay of the old photograph looking down Wellington Street on top of the contemporary view to see what's been retained, and to help me better place the position of the old Central Station. Wonder how much is going to change around here when the new residential/commercial development gets built on the site of the old International Swimming Pool - which for some reason is still signposted on signage on the Inner Ring Road over a decade after its demolition!

@johnnygorner3220 4 years ago

Thank you love the presentation 👍 interesting

@thefrecklepuny 3 years ago

I used to work at the old YEP building at the end of Wellington St in the early 90s as a door-to-door sales canvasser for the paper across much of Leeds and surrounding areas.

@ValShepley-qc4zr 2 years ago

I remember them building the YEP building. I used to go past it on my way to work and back. So many years ago.

@jm252 1 year ago

Joined the Army on wellington street and used to do Karate at the Budakan Karate Club back in the 80's 🙂

@danielwagman9794 3 years ago

Nice video! I like the mix of old and new. I'm thinking of how you focused on an interesting old photo of one particular city block that had some remaining buildings, which were later demolished for (only) the widening of the street -- necessary I'm sure, but it's a bit of a shame; wouldn't it be interesting to see those buildings today, instead of a wider street. Tour guides can't generate much enthusiasm with "as you can see, the street is WIDER here..." cue Monty Python style video! 😊

@JayPren 7 months ago

Hi, Wellington Road from the end of Wellington Street to the bottom of Tong Road would be a good video to do....

@Vinehorse 4 years ago

Very interesting and well presented, as with all your videos about Leeds. Question: Am I right in thinking that before the YP building opened in the early 70s, the paper was based in a building on Wellington St?

@scotthowieson1191 2 years ago

City Square, a real city square at last

@atrekwithdave 4 years ago

Sorry but there isn’t one building on today’s Wellington Street that I’d describe as impressive, square boxes full of glass isn’t pretty!

@AiTheBetterToSeeYouWith 3 years ago

Your narration would benefit from a higher quality microphone, closer to your mouth. Maybe even a lavaliere mic. Right now it sounds like you're on the other side of the room or using a laptop built-in microphone.