When I first wrote (n 2010) the post about our trip to northern England, I kept strictly to the gardening photos. I’m being a lot looser about subject matter in this series of preludes, so why not share some of the rest of the photos that I love from that trip? This photo with cotoneaster (?) could certainly have gone in the winter garden tour entry!
in Leeds, perhaps
I love the way Christmas trees were often stuck up high on the old buildings.
Chapel Allerton Police Station, Leeds
Chapel Allerton was the Leeds suburb where Chris’s parents lived.
I had been watching the northern England working class television drama Coronation Street with Chris back in Seattle. (We could get it via Canadian tv there…not so later at the beach so I left it behind after a few years of getting a friend to tape it for me.) I loved walking around Chapel Allerton and seeing the non touristy views of humbler neighbourhoods.
like a scene out of Corrie
Chrismtas trees and a fruiterers window
Specialty shops for fruit and for meat still existed in the small neighbourhoods. I wonder if they do now?
shopping in Chapel Allerton
Little alleys are called “ginnels”.
on Harrogate Road
A lot of the old houses had the most wonderful atriums and bay windows.
Acc. to a Leedsman, the photo should be spelt Harrogate! I want to show a builder a photo of this and say: just stick this on my house, pretty please! Just look at the flowers within; this could have gone in the winter gardens album as well.
We went to the glorious Leeds Market, which was threatened by development and destruction at the time. There was a movement on to save it, which proved successful, similar to the salvation of Seattle’s Pike Place Market.
inside the market dome
in the Leeds Market
in the Leeds Market
I later made a Christmas card of this photo.
Near Chris’s parents flat, ponies lived in a farm field.
ponies
winter pony
Bulletin board on a candy shop that Chris frequented as a boy.
Remembrance Day in Leeds
Remembrance Day poppies
Christmas window
in Leeds
in Leeds…Life in a northern town.
Chapel Allerton graveyard
in a Chapel Allerton cemetery
cemetery
cemetery
angel
on Gledhow Lane, Chapel Allerton
view of Leeds from Potter Newton Lane
Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, from the 1200s
Kirkstall Abbey was one of Chris’s favourite places.
Next: off in a rented car to explore more of Northern England.
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