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Description: | June 1965. This concrete footpath built in the style of Corporation Street in the 1930s finished off the new Hopkins Gardens addition to Scatcherd Park. It was a replacement for Scatcherd Lane which had entered Queen Street between Morley House and the border of the 1911 Scatcherd Park. It made its way to Corporation Street coming out opposite the higher part of Scatcherd Lane which was supposedly suitable for motor vehicles though the road was a dirt track and the bridge over the railway was wooden.
Because this part between Queen Street and Scatcherd Lane was a footpath only and it was opened at the time a particular song was popular it becane nicknamed The Lambeth Walk. As can be seen there were some laburnum trees near to Queen Street but these all got chopped down when the new link road betweeen Queen Street and Queensway was built about 1970. In parts this Lambeth Walk actually forms the footpath for Queensway. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | footpath Hopkins Gardens Scatcherd Park | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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