Leeds lost pubs

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Wed 09 May, 2012 10:03 pm

raveydavey wrote: Drove past The Mulberry on Hunslet Road the other night and it was closed and the dreaded metal shutters are present on the doors and windows.It's stranded on a main road with very little in the way of a local population,so I suppose it's been up against it for years. Aye,shame.When I worked in Hunslet we would nip in many a dinner time for a couple or five ! Wasn't much other than passing trade or lunch trade that seemed to keep it going.Used to serve some good ales yonks back.Another one bites the dust ?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 09 May, 2012 10:04 pm

This is an amazing long running thread and here's hoping it continues a lot more. Currently it has had 2449 replies and 888963 views! I wonder when it will reach 1 million views?

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Wed 09 May, 2012 10:05 pm

p.s. Is this thread well up on the leader board for the one with most views ????????

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Wed 09 May, 2012 10:19 pm

Leodian wrote: This is an amazing long running thread and here's hoping it continues a lot more. Currently it has had 2449 replies and 888963 views! I wonder when it will reach 1 million views? FREAKY ! I was posting my comment as you posted this.....scary stuff.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 09 May, 2012 10:23 pm

somme1916 wrote: Leodian wrote: This is an amazing long running thread and here's hoping it continues a lot more. Currently it has had 2449 replies and 888963 views! I wonder when it will reach 1 million views? FREAKY ! I was posting my comment as you posted this.....scary stuff. As I post it has already risen to 2453 replies and 888991 views!

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Wed 09 May, 2012 10:26 pm

Leodian wrote: somme1916 wrote: Leodian wrote: This is an amazing long running thread and here's hoping it continues a lot more. Currently it has had 2449 replies and 888963 views! I wonder when it will reach 1 million views? FREAKY ! I was posting my comment as you posted this.....scary stuff. As I post it has already risen to 2453 replies and 888991 views! The stupidest thing was that as I wrote the original (about the number of views etc), I couldn't get it to post so I thought to myself,"I bet somebody else is posting the same as me ! ".It's a strange world.

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 10 May, 2012 1:10 pm

somme1916 wrote: p.s. Is this thread well up on the leader board for the one with most views ???????? In terms of views yes but the Skulls is more 'active' with 2609 replies against 2445 but with fewer views at 511436.

TASMAN · Post by **TASMAN** » Thu 10 May, 2012 8:23 pm

The Parksider wrote: liits wrote: From Kelley's 1916, Licensee William Aikin. Kelley's 1947, Licensee, Albert Richardson. It shows in the 1925 Trades Directory but doesn't name the licensee. Locating places on old maps is tough and I appreciate your fine probably definitive efforts......But the Clarendon you place on the map, I recall by sight as called the Victoria bang on the corner of water lane and Viccy road, and not just down water lane on the right?That a pub existed on Water Lane on the boundary of ther bonded warehouse land is news to me.But I suppose in the golden age of pubs they could have sprung up anywhere and names changed too!Any comment? I was an apprentice engineer at RW Crabtree's in Water Lane in the 1950's and remember the older engineers referring to the pub on the left hand side of Water Lane when approaching Victoria Road, which is named on the map as being "The Victoria".They said that it was there until start of WW2, but referred to it as the "Drum and Monkey" and remembered it as being an alehousewithout a spirit license.I left Crabtree's in the early 70's and at that time the pub on the corner of Water Lane and Victoria Road was still called "The Clarendon"

Loiner in Cyprus · Post by **Loiner in Cyprus** » Thu 10 May, 2012 9:30 pm

[quotenick="Leodian"]This is an amazing long running thread and here's hoping it continues a lot more. Currently it has had 2449 replies and 888963 views! I wonder when it will reach 1 million views? If it does continue 'a lot more' let us hope it is not because 'a lot more' pubs are closing. Most of the pubs I frequented in my youth and middle age have already gone!!!

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Thu 10 May, 2012 9:55 pm

[quotenick="Loiner in Cyprus"] Leodian wrote: This is an amazing long running thread and here's hoping it continues a lot more. Currently it has had 2449 replies and 888963 views! I wonder when it will reach 1 million views? If it does continue 'a lot more' let us hope it is not because 'a lot more' pubs are closing. Most of the pubs I frequented in my youth and middle age have already gone!!! In case you have not seen it Loiner in Cyprus the post by uncle mick on 6-Jan-2011 at 16:24:45 on page 90 may be of interest regarding the number of pubs/beer houses there were in Leeds in 1872 and 1908.