Leeds lost pubs

[nobbyslass]

Still havent had an answer to my question in the thread 'things you dont see anymore'. About 'waiting-on inpubs. My grandad used to wait on at the Cemetary Hotel in Tong Rd think it meant taking orders and delivering drinks not just collecting glasses.So how about it you pub specialists???

[Si]

nobbyslass wrote: Still havent had an answer to my question in the thread 'things you dont see anymore'. About 'waiting-on inpubs. My grandad used to wait on at the Cemetary Hotel in Tong Rd think it meant taking orders and delivering drinks not just collecting glasses.So how about it you pub specialists??? Hi Nobbyslass. I think I've mentioned it on here before, but they used to "wait-on" in the Old Roundabout in Stanningley in the 70s. The little bell-buttons around the snug and back room still worked, and so long as there were more than four orders, Iris would bring your drinks (four pints of mild, please, Iris) on a tray, and take away the dead glasses.I wonder where the phrase "Are these glasses dead?" (meaning empty) comes from? Drapesy?    

[uncle mick]

Re; Waiting on. I "waited on" at the Broadway on Dewsbury Road in the late 1960's. John Smiths bitter was 2 shillings(10 pence) a pint and the mild 1/9p (circa 8 pence).     At the weekends we used to have 4 of us "waiting on".Even on a Monday night we had a waiter. I seem to recollect we got paid 5 shillings (25p) per hour,but we used to make £2 in tips each on a weekend night.     £2 was equal to 20 pints so if you equate that in today's prices that's like making £40 to £50 a night in tips.If I could get that now the waiters "pinny" would be back on.     They were "The good old days". Bob Connelly on the piano and his brother Bob on the drums,people queuing to get in.

[BLAKEY]

I always had the very greatest admiration for "waiters on." How on earth they managed to navigate the closely packed customers with heavily loaded trays held aloft on one skilful hand was a miracle to me - as was their expertise in remembering the complicated orders, often taken above ear splitting live music.I'm afraid that I wouldn't have lasted an hour at it - any of my friends will confirm that an order of more than two drinks entrusted to me can result in anything other than what was required

[raveydavey]

If I remember correctly, the waiting on buzzers are still in situ in the Victoria Hotel behind the Town Hall, but I don't think they've been used for many years.    

[johnnyg]

The buzzers are still in place in the Skinners Arms on Scott Hall Road. They still worked in the early 1980s although using them attracted more dirty looks from bar staff than waiters.

[nobbyslass]

so drapsey is the Cemetary hotel still going, also how about the Hanover arms in Lower Wortley?

[nobbyslass]

Do clubs come into this? Grandad used to work at the Catholic club next to the Holy Family School in Parliament Rd in Armley and according to legend stood in as a stand up when a 'turn' didnt turn up

[drapesy]

nobbyslass wrote: so drapsey is the Cemetary hotel still going, also how about the Hanover arms in Lower Wortley? The Cemetery hotel , on Tong Road was demolished many years ago -(1960s I believe). The Hanover is still there - it was closed for a time last year but is now open again. Do you know that the Hanover is called the 'Paraffin' by locals for some obscure reason?!

[dogduke]

nobbyslass wrote: Still havent had an answer to my question in the thread 'things you dont see anymore'. About 'waiting-on inpubs. My grandad used to wait on at the Cemetary Hotel in Tong Rd think it meant taking orders and delivering drinks not just collecting glasses.So how about it you pub specialists??? The Leeds Museum site has a selection of the Marc Riboud collection which includes 'an action snap'of waiting on at the old Wine lodge