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The Hunslet video was superb! As a Hunslet man all my life, brought up in the Carr, living in Jack Lane, Beza Street, and the Royals, and later with a shop in Balm Road it took me back, not only to the days of my youth, but the time after I met my wife to be from Plevna and we met outside Beetham’s Pawn Shop near the Anchor. In fact my whole life has been centered in this ordinary yet wonderful place, where in spite of it being supposedly an area of deprivation, there existed an indomitable spirit and pride running right through the people, its industry and sport, perhaps never to be repeated. But one never knows! While ever a vestige of that spirit remains, anything is possible. If not however, they can never take our memories away. The Old Hunslet was a special place, with special people and special men of Sport. History cannot deny it!