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“the good old days” when we breathed in smoke and pollution !!

Judging by the lack of snow on the slates*, they must have been growing a heckuva lot of Cannabis. weren't sure "roofs or rooves".

Lovely photo, as usual. I particularly like the power station.

They really didn't, back in the day men were expected to live around 2-3 years after retirement, so about 67-68, this has shot up to around 80 these days. This rise in life expectancy for women has been nearly as spectacular with on average about 82 years.

And just down the road is Armley where Turner and Newall had their factory which contaminated the area and about 1,000 homes with asbestos dust.

Born about a mile away from that photo. Most of those terraces were cleared in the early 70s, and Kirkstall power station stopped operating a couple of years later . Remember the cooling towers being dropped around 1980