Lidget Hill
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1910-1997
The Top End Of Lidget Hill
'Druggist Corner' looking up Lidget Hill, possibly around 1910. Many
people remember the center of Pudsey as 'Galloway's Corner' as for more
than 50 years James Galloway's family kept the grocer's shop at the
bottom left hand corner of the old Picture. However, before that the shop
belonged to a chemist, Joseph Walker, hence the old name 'Druggist's
Corner'. Joseph Walker was almost the local physician. He extracted teeth
and supplied 'Artificial Mineral Teeth' at 9/- and 15/6, stocked 'Twelve
Tree Bug Destroyer' for bedroom pests, and crotchet patterns, 'the most
original ever in Pudsey'. His 'Infant Preservative' cost 7 1/2d a
bottle. He was also a printer and for five years President of the
Mechanics Institute. No wonder the center of the town was called after
him. Immediately behind his shop Sykes Crowther's blacksmith's shop. The
wooden hut beyond was Mrs. Ross' tripe shop where the warmth from the
coke stove was a great attraction on cold winter nights. Today, however
the hill is populated by '60's' style two story shops trading in pizza,
banking and property.
The Bottom End Of Lidget Hill
1983
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