Town pubs of the late 70's/early 80's

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Fri 04 May, 2007 4:36 pm

It certainly would be intersting to have a nosey in the place after it's been boarded up for years.

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Fri 04 May, 2007 8:12 pm

Reginal Perrin wrote: It certainly would be intersting to have a nosey in the place after it's been boarded up for years. was it called bistro 5

Letty · Post by **Letty** » Sat 05 May, 2007 11:30 pm

having consumed a bottle of pink wine .... what about Stumps and The Bank. Leeds answer to the yuppie places.

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Sun 06 May, 2007 9:34 pm

The first,and one of the best,heavy rock discos I regularly attended was in the cellar bar of The Peel on Boar Lane.Everyone had their hand rubber stamped on entry and received a small ticket.The music was excellant,the beer so-so(Websters).

twanky · Post by **twanky** » Mon 07 May, 2007 11:07 pm

stevief wrote: twanky wrote: bigpants wrote: scrumpies was possibly the darkest place on the planet and had a sticky carpet of unbelievable tenacity. great music though. I remember it well.Used to go there from 1990 up to about 96. I didn't know there was a carpet until they took it up ! I thought it was just a sticky floor. Great music like you say I never realised it was called 'Scrumpies'.We used to go on a Friday night(late70's,early 80's) during my headbanging days.There was asign above the door saying 'Central'so we referred to it as the central disco.The place was an absolute dump but the music bril.It wouldn't have lasted 2 minutes today with 'ealth and safety. The toilets defied description! God yes the toilets. You used to get tide marks on your boots lol

rikj · Post by **rikj** » Wed 09 May, 2007 11:23 pm

Anyone remember the Heaven and Hell nightclub (not the recent one) that was near the bottom of Eastgate? So called because it was on 2 levels.And what about the Brahms and Liszt? Anyone remember that, long tables and German beers? I sort of remember it being underground on maybe East Parade.(BTW The Newlands was my local until it burned down. We just made it look bad to keep the students out )

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Mon 21 May, 2007 4:09 pm

Letty wrote: having consumed a bottle of pink wine .... what about Stumps and The Bank. Leeds answer to the yuppie places. No, Bistro 5 was originally underneath Laura Ashley / Country Casuals on Lands Lane then moved to where the Observatory was (now Flares). Anyone remember how far you had to walk to get to the loo in the Observatory we used to joke they were actually shared with the Scarborough Taps.

Clankylad · Post by **Clankylad** » Tue 12 Jun, 2007 12:00 pm

I’m a Scrumpies veteran too. Saturday afternoons in the 80s were 50p to get in. In return you got a token (a washer if I remember rightly) which you handed to the barman and got 50p off your first bottle of Newcy Brown. It seems strange now that last orders were at 3pm. When it was the ‘Monsters of Rock’ festival at Donington, they would offer a free drink for the first person back into town with that year’s T-shirt after it finished. It was usually someone who arrived at about 11.15, having blasted back up the M1 on a 900cc bike or something. And a bloke called Giovanni who used to play the Old Grey Whistle Test theme on a harmonica (I still see him around the market sometimes). I remember seeing the Macc Lads there, and also Zodiac Mindwarp. Scrumpies and the Frog and Toad in Bradford, with me perm, bullet belt and Twisted Sister T-shirt. Those were the days…

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 12 Jun, 2007 9:47 pm

Reginal Perrin wrote: Anyone remember how far you had to walk to get to the loo in the Observatory we used to joke they were actually shared with the Scarborough Taps. I'd forgotten that! It must have been a half mile hike - you had to plan carefully and set off 5 minutes before you wanted to go!

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Tue 12 Jun, 2007 10:04 pm

rikj wrote: Anyone remember the Heaven and Hell nightclub (not the recent one) that was near the bottom of Eastgate? So called because it was on 2 levels.And what about the Brahms and Liszt? Anyone remember that, long tables and German beers? I sort of remember it being underground on maybe East Parade.(BTW The Newlands was my local until it burned down. We just made it look bad to keep the students out ) I went in Heaven and Hell once only.The DJ that evening had a very public fall-out with the owner and proceeded to un-install all his equipment ranting and raving all the while.We all stood around open-mouthed,being carefull not to get in his way.