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

TABBYCAT · Post by **TABBYCAT** » Sun 17 Jun, 2007 9:15 pm

Hi allthe Market Tavern was known as the mad house not the mad man.

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Mon 18 Jun, 2007 7:35 am

Thanks guys! a great help.

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Mon 18 Jun, 2007 11:13 pm

JanCee wrote: Hi all. Great thread! It's kept me amused for a good hour.Our circuit was Hope Inn [York Road] to get tanked up, then Whitelocks, The Ostlers, Pack Horse, Piccadilly Bar [The Swan], King Charles and the [old] Wine Lodge on Commercial Street. Of course I was a very under age drinker heh. Does anyone remember you could get through to the Piccadilly Bar from an alleyway at the front entrance of the City Varieties? I was told that the artistes used to use the route when they weren't on stage. It's walled off now. Mention of Bill Nelson reminds me that I saw Be Bop de Luxe on one of the Thursday night live band nights at The Fairway. I also saw Ginger Baker at the Fforde Grene. We used to do the York Road run too. Hope Inn, Victoria, Dog and Gun, Wykebeck. And the East Street run. Waterloo, Dog & Gun, Fisherman's Hut, Spring Close, Yew Tree. We used to trail up to the Staging Post on Thursdays too to see live bands. I'd better shut up or I'll run out of memories. I'm so relieved someone else saw Ginger Baker,I was begining to think I'd imagined it.The East St. run is as follows(and I'm choking back the tears as I write this):-( The Palace,The Smiths(gone),The Waterloo(gone),the Black Dog(gone)the Fishermans Hut(??)the Spring Close(?),the Cross Green,the Bridgefield(gone) and,capacity permitting,you may as well finish off in the Hampton(?)

JanCee · Post by **JanCee** » Tue 19 Jun, 2007 4:41 pm

Just realised I put Dog & Gun in the East Street run rather than Black Dog so yes, I slump corrected. Your 'run' is more ambitious than mine [obviously] but could have been achieved with a six o'clock start by us girlies I think. The Hampton's closed up now. It was serving beer out of the back window, so the rumour goes, about a year ago. The Cross Green is up for sale and the last I heard the landlord from the Hope was taking it over. If I was just a tad richer than I am *cough* I would buy up the Fish 'ut and refurbish it. It's listed I believe so you'd have to preserve a lot of stuff. I just think there's a vast untapped new local market there with the amount of new apartments they're chucking up down East Street. stevief wrote: JanCee wrote: Hi all. Great thread! It's kept me amused for a good hour.Our circuit was Hope Inn [York Road] to get tanked up, then Whitelocks, The Ostlers, Pack Horse, Piccadilly Bar [The Swan], King Charles and the [old] Wine Lodge on Commercial Street. Of course I was a very under age drinker heh. Does anyone remember you could get through to the Piccadilly Bar from an alleyway at the front entrance of the City Varieties? I was told that the artistes used to use the route when they weren't on stage. It's walled off now. Mention of Bill Nelson reminds me that I saw Be Bop de Luxe on one of the Thursday night live band nights at The Fairway. I also saw Ginger Baker at the Fforde Grene. We used to do the York Road run too. Hope Inn, Victoria, Dog and Gun, Wykebeck. And the East Street run. Waterloo, Dog & Gun, Fisherman's Hut, Spring Close, Yew Tree. We used to trail up to the Staging Post on Thursdays too to see live bands. I'd better shut up or I'll run out of memories. I'm so relieved someone else saw Ginger Baker,I was begining to think I'd imagined it.The East St. run is as follows(and I'm choking back the tears as I write this):-( The Palace,The Smiths(gone),The Waterloo(gone),the Black Dog(gone)the Fishermans Hut(??)the Spring Close(?),the Cross Green,the Bridgefield(gone) and,capacity permitting,you may as well finish off in the Hampton(?)

Loinerpete · Post by **Loinerpete** » Thu 21 Jun, 2007 2:09 pm

Speaking of the piccadilly bar, i worked there for a short while in 1977, it was always the place where everyones town run seemed to cross over, it was small but everyone went there, you could set your watch by what time different groups of people got there.

Dave H · Post by **Dave H** » Fri 22 Jun, 2007 12:35 pm

Just a couple of contributions to this thread..incidentally..reading these postings has taken me back to my (very) mis-spent youth in the early 1970s !The 'Madhouse' aka Market Tavern.My dad was a market man for 40 years in Leeds and almost lived in the Madhouse, Regent and Nags Head pubs.The best known landlord of the M/H was John O'Dwyer. I dont know how long he had the pub for..but to a young lad like me he seemed as permanent as the pub itself, however both have now gone.... and I'm not young anymore!My favorite story about the place my dad told me was about the days when it used to open at 5am, Leeds market was a wholesale market then and it was usual for pubs to open for 'Breakfast'. Early one morning dad's mate Johnny Summers (I think), who was a tasty amateur boxer, had parked his barrow, all loaded up with fruit, outside the pub and gone inside. The local milkman with his horse drawn float tied the horse to the drainpipe and also went inside for brekky. When johny came out the horse had helped itself to some of his fruit. Legend has it that he punched the horse... and knocked it out!! I understand that, when I last heard, Johnny Summers' sons still have a stall in the market.I have a fund of anecdotes and stories about the market pubs...and other hostelries in the centre of Leeds, all trigered by reading this thread. I will post a few at a later date..with the indulgence of my fellow 'bloggers'..??

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Fri 22 Jun, 2007 10:37 pm

My first ever job, after leaving school was in a butchers in the market, older blokes used to take me in the tavern (madhouse) of a Friday lunchtime!! First pub I ever drank in!!

Scandy Bramley · Post by **Scandy Bramley** » Sat 23 Jun, 2007 5:56 pm

My apprenticeship was at Arnold G Wilson's on Regent Street. Every lunchbreak, we would all go next door to the Regent pub, Great pubgrub and several pints of bitter (think it was Tets?) later, we'd stagger back to work. I'm still amazed how we got any work done...OR never had any serious work accidents, the state we were allus in! Not been down that way for eons - is the Regent still standing?

LeeRatbag · Post by **LeeRatbag** » Wed 04 Jul, 2007 1:44 pm

Yeah, it's still there, but it's been rebranded as an Irish themed pub called "Macguires At The Regent" now. My dad used to work down that way, at a garage called Andersons. That's where he met me mother. Anybody remember Andersons?

Scandy Bramley · Post by **Scandy Bramley** » Wed 04 Jul, 2007 8:53 pm

Ta fer the info, Lee - and o'course I remember Andersons. They were forever phoning Arnold G's to borrow one of our mechanics to help them fix any Rovers or Triumphs they got in. Uh-oh...having a senior moment here...I seem to remember the foreman at Andersons being called Bob. But can I 'eck as like think of his surname? Perhaps your dad can remember?