Leeds lost pubs

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Brunel
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robontheroad wrote: I've been told that the White Cross in Pudsey is apparently closed and due to be flattened and houses built on the site... any one confirm this? Yep, 5 houses.The land is more valuable than the business.

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Brunel wrote: robontheroad wrote: I've been told that the White Cross in Pudsey is apparently closed and due to be flattened and houses built on the site... any one confirm this? Yep, 5 houses.The land is more valuable than the business. That is a shame. I was a regular there mid 70s to early 80s. Used to do a lovely pint of Tetley's mild.

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BLAKEY wrote: Carol wrote: drapesy wrote: The George IV Kirkstall - suddenly closed about 2 and half years ago - been like this ever since Always glad to be corrected - but surely the George 1V has been closed much longer than that - I couldn't put a figure on it but around ten years I'd say ?? I've been in that area 2 1/2 years and it looked like it had been closed a while when I got there. There was a reunion at the Merry Monk a month or two back, perhaps some kind of anniversary passed this year?

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George 1V, I think Blakey is close to the mark at around 10 years closed . My guess would be slightly less at around 8yrs . I know for sure it was alive and kicking in 2001. Cracking pub on Sunday lunch sessions, plenty of rugby boys from the area use to gather. You could buy almost anything in there and I'm not talking about beer. Bigger range than Marks and Sparks at times.An older post on this thread says it was already boarded up in 2007
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It was definitely boarded up in 2005 - my then-girlfriend and I used to walk past it on the way from her house on the Argies to, ironically, the Bridge Inn. Always used to think it'd've made a handy "pit stop" en-route.

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Phill_d wrote: Would it be a good idea to get snapping all the old pubs of Leeds in one collection maybe? The Black lion....Just around the corner to the Scarborough taps... What's it called these days??? Does anyone have any information about a public house called The Sussex Arms which was in Richmond Hill in East Leeds around 1900.

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Quote: Does anyone have any information about a public house called The Sussex Arms which was in Richmond Hill in East Leeds around 1900. I have a little information...The Sussex Arms Inn was apparently situated on the "Far Bank". Other contributors here will doubtless be able to identify which part of the Bank was regarded as "Far".In the mid-19th century, the premises were used by local burgesses (council officials) for meetings - usually celebratory dinners honouring one of their number.Interestingly, the Leeds Mercury records an election bribery scandal in early 1865, in which a voter was paid 4 shillings for casting his vote for a particular candidate in the East Ward. The money was handed-over at the Sussex Arms Inn, being in the constituency.If I find any more information I will post tomorrow.

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[quotenick="greensleeves"] Phill_d wrote: Would it be a good idea to get snapping all the old pubs of Leeds in one collection maybe? The Black lion....Just around the corner to the Scarborough taps... What's it called these days??? Does anyone have any information about a public house called The Sussex Arms which was in Richmond Hill in East Leeds around 1900.

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I am trying to find any information about a pub called The Sussex Arms which was located in Richmond Hill around the 1900's in LeedsThanks

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Does anyone have any information about a public house called The Sussex Arms which was in Richmond Hill in East Leeds around 1900.It was on Sussex Street which is still there today off Upper Accommodation Roadhttp://goo.gl/maps/KkwHW    

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