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« on: Monday 06 December 04 18:13 GMT (UK) »
Hello,
I live in Hunslet, now a district of Leeds in West Yorkshire. There is a Royal Place today but not the one your relatives would know. Today's Royal Place is a street of 1970s council housing. I remember the old 'Royals' from my childhood. They were streets of Victorian, terraced, red-brick housing - the '2 up. 2 down' type of working people, where the toilets were in a yard down the street, shared by about six families. There was usually a shop at the end of each street - grocer, hairdresser, fish and chip shop etc. A very friendly community. They were demolished in the 60s and replaced by the new estate. The area in Hunslet is called Hunslet Carr.
Julie