Aerial View 1962

Lovely to see this photo the bottom one in particular as you can see the Rawdon that I remember when I left school. You can now realise how large the allotments in Peashill are and also the field is there that was at the back of my house at High Royd Larkfield Ave, my bedroom window used to face onto this field and Sheila Ryder used to keep her horse there. Later houses were built on this land. Great to see the Larkfield Mill too and Cartwrights where I worked in my school holidays (then Timothy Whites and Taylors) I was canning anti freeze and used to go home blue! My Dad later worked there before he died and my Mum also worked at Story Evans after the war. Thanks David Teale are you any relation of Lily Teale (married name HOPE use to live top of Carr Lane later Queensway) she used to clean for my Mum and I loved her a lot. My brother was a pilot about this time and worked out of Yeadon I will have to see if he has any aerial shots, he used to fly over the house at High Royd and hover and move his wings and we used to run out on the lawn waving a tea towel! Valerie Ryan (nee Hoare)

The top photo was in fact taken after 1970. My old house in Upper Lombard Street shows the white exterior shutters I fitted in 1970.