Leeds lost pubs

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Fri 04 Jul, 2008 5:09 pm

Ruffarse wrote: Hullo Drapesy,As a new member and to save me trwling thro 44 pages, do you have anything on the King Charles?I bought my first house from the barmaid in there!Thanks. It has been mentioned on this thread before - but as you say finding it in 44 pages is a different matter. Here's a Leodis pic from the 60s. I can vaguely remember it - and had drinks outside -not sure if I ever went in though. Great shame, it was a really historic building - demolished to make way for a building that lasted less than 30 years !

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Fri 04 Jul, 2008 6:35 pm

Not exactly "Off the thread" but more of an accessory when reminiscing about the good old days - and they were. Just next to the King Charles, in King Charles Croft, was SHERWIN'S wonderful restaurant. Beautiful top quality home cooking and traditional waitresses in black dresses/white pinafores - three course lunches 2/6d (12.5p for the fortunate decimal youngsters among us) plus 3d for tea or coffee. As well as the lovely food it was always a really pleasnt experience as well - followed by a drink or two, or The Varieties, or The Theatre Royal, or the Empire, or the Grand or the Majestic or the Odeon or the Assembly Rooms (Plaza) or the Ritz or the Mecca or the Scala or the Tatler or the News Theatre - this breathless long sentence just sums up how much we really have lost of "old Leeds."

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Fri 04 Jul, 2008 6:38 pm

Brandy wrote: SHAFTESBURY GONE! Good grief Brandy - that WAS quick !! I passed there on Monday and glanced while driving and I'm sure they had scarcely started, if at all.

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Fri 04 Jul, 2008 6:43 pm

drapesy wrote: Brandy wrote: SHAFTESBURY GONE! I've not seen it but I believe there's 'Melbourne' Mosaic floor under there somewhere.On another subject I've noticed that there's not much sign of life at The Nelson in Holbeck. It was open a couple of weeks ago - anyone know anything? yes there was drapesy, believe it or not i have been trying to get permission to get in there to take a few shots of them for you(kind of like a surprise ) but apparently they've had there fair share of looters/vandals and trespassers so they wern't letting anyone in,so sorry to report my mission failed

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Fri 04 Jul, 2008 8:38 pm

Brandy wrote: drapesy wrote: Brandy wrote: SHAFTESBURY GONE! I've not seen it but I believe there's 'Melbourne' Mosaic floor under there somewhere.On another subject I've noticed that there's not much sign of life at The Nelson in Holbeck. It was open a couple of weeks ago - anyone know anything? yes there was drapesy, believe it or not i have been trying to get permission to get in there to take a few shots of them for you(kind of like a surprise ) but apparently they've had there fair share of looters/vandals and trespassers so they wern't letting anyone in,so sorry to report my mission failed Thanks for trying anyway mate!!I drove passed a couple of times myself in the hope I might be able to sneak in - but no dice!

Lost-Loiner · Post by **Lost-Loiner** » Fri 04 Jul, 2008 9:17 pm

Anyone remember a pub in Holbeck, The Old Blue Ball ? Used to go lunchtimes mid 70's for hand pulled mild and bitter. Can't find anything on Leodis but not really sure what street it was on.

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » Sat 05 Jul, 2008 1:33 am

I've had a pretty good look through the pages and don't remember seeing these which I've noticed boarded up on my travels round town....apologies if any were mentioned or have reopened...Kirkstall Lightsthat pub with one of those eighties/early 90s names (ie rat and parrot, ferret and firkin etc) at the town end of on Burley Roadalso has anyone mentioned that pub in the sort of Kirkstall Hill/Burley road area in the trees (going up towards Headingley) which has been derelict since at least the start of the milleniumGlobe- Sheepscar and in town...Big Lil'sNags Head...

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sat 05 Jul, 2008 11:05 am

CATWEAZLE WROTE :-"also has anyone mentioned that pub in the sort of Kirkstall Hill/Burley road area in the trees (going up towards Headingley) which has been derelict since at least the start of the millenium".....................................................................................................This would be the St. Annes in St. Annes Lane. Yes it has been derelict for many a year, and was frequently set alight by the idiots.It has been demolished fairly recently, after pressure from an exasperated Fire Service one fireman told me.

Ward Cleaver · Post by **Ward Cleaver** » Sat 05 Jul, 2008 12:40 pm

Catweazle wrote: I've had a pretty good look through the pages and don't remember seeing these which I've noticed boarded up on my travels round town....apologies if any were mentioned or have reopened...Kirkstall Lights Here you go mate, taken with permission from a similar thread herehttp://www.urbexforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=250Another one in Kirkstall, The Ancestor

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Sat 05 Jul, 2008 6:36 pm

Brandy wrote: SHAFTESBURY GONE! Well, thats that then.Don't they have to get permission to knock places down?Slightly further up York Road, it must be two years now since the Lion and Lamb was also demolished, supposedly to be redveloped as an Aldi (or similar budget supermarket) and nothing has happened...