# Friday, October 21, 2011
Street Lane, nos. 39-47 Parade of Shops17th August 1935 On the left junction with Shaftesbury Avenue, no 39 Walter Barker grocers shop. Next no 41, Arthur Bentley junior has a bakers shop. George Edward Wormald has a butchers business at no 43. Then at No47 A flag advertising film is hanging from the wall. The shops continue until no 81 is reached at the junction with Sutherland Avenue.
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Street Lane, nos. 39-71
17th August 1935 Shops on Street Lane, to the left no 39, at the junction with Shaftesbury Avenue ending with No 71 on the right. This is a bakers shop, business of Miss Florence Gadsby.

 

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Street Lane, nos. 59-81 Parade of Shops
19th December 1932 Parade of shops, on the left no 59 are Harry Parsons, chemist and Raymond Malins, ironmonger, sharing a shop entrance. To the right, no 61 is Fred Burniston newsagent and Post office. Babies in their prams are outside the shops. An electric sign for the chemist is on the pavement.

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I thought it would be helpful to provide some pictures of Street Lane in the time period I am modelling, which is just pre-war.  Here is the first of a few pictures:

 

 

Street Lane nos. 47-55 Parade of Shops
19th December 1932 On the left is no 47 Ernest Carrick Foster chemists shop is on the pavement. Next to the right is no 49 H Caress and son, drapers, then no51 Amos Webster, boot and shoe shop. The shops continue Newbys greengrocers at No55 is behind the delivery bike on the pavement. The shops end with no 81, at the junction with Sutherland Avenue.

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# Saturday, October 08, 2011

Base board for the Street Lane project
This project should occupy quite a lot of my time. The idea came in 1986 when I started collecting model trams from Leeds City. Put simply, I am starting a model tramway, based on the parade of shops along Street Lane in Roundhay, set in 1938. So far the table is built. It is hinged against the wall so that it can be folded away when guests need the room.
Dimensions are 1.2m x 2'6", which reflects the fact that the wood came in metric and I think in feet and inches.

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