The Roscoe is dead-long live the roscoe

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Mon 10 Sep, 2007 10:58 pm

mmm. Yeah ok! In the tap room 6? Will we have Andy?

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Mon 10 Sep, 2007 11:37 pm

If it is in the bushes that will be fun! They are well overgrown and I nearly got knocked over twice.Is this open to visitors?

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Mon 10 Sep, 2007 11:38 pm

If it is in the bushes that will be fun! They are well overgrown and I nearly got knocked over twice.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Mon 10 Sep, 2007 11:46 pm

Tag along mate! You know the rendevouz. Red rose in top pocket, dark glasses & rolled up newspaper for recognition please!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Tue 11 Sep, 2007 12:54 pm

Thanks phill, see if I can make it back into Leeds on time!!Just occured to me about the old map above. Shows a Police Station on the opposite the victoria, and after the Library. The library is marked there on the 1908 map, but not on subsequent ones, and all the pics I have seen show the library at the end of the road with no buildings after it? Strange!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Tue 11 Sep, 2007 12:58 pm

Phill_d wrote: How times change eh? I can make out the Sheepscar library on the corner. I'll have a go at highlighting where i think the Roscoe was if maybe Drapsey or one of the older folks can give us some gen! Was there maybe an older library there that was built after the old toll house was pulled, and then this one was demolished. Going off thread here I know, but the aerial picture does not look like the Sheepscar Library does now with the angled entry!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Tue 11 Sep, 2007 1:09 pm

Right, my Grandpa just called me to tell me that the Roscoe was here (circled).

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Tue 11 Sep, 2007 2:43 pm

And I've just answered my own question - quote from Leodis below"13th July 1867. View of the toll house and bar at the junction of North Street and Roundhay Road. This stood on the edge of Sheepscar green. The toll bar was a pentagonal building which was demolished to make way for the Fire Station, Police Station and Post Office built in 1872. Sheepscar branch library was later built on this site and these premises are now used by West Yorkshire Archives Service. The Post Office closed in 1985 and is now used as premises for the Ramgarhia Board."It also seems that buildings continued towards town from the Victoria Pub rigth though to the end of Manor Road. Always wondered why it seemed to end so abruptly!I'll let the thread go back on track now!!

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Tue 11 Sep, 2007 6:51 pm

Great finds there mate! Best pic if seen yet to pin point the location! that's gotta help with the search now!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Tue 11 Sep, 2007 7:05 pm

Any ideas from you trip to the New Roscoe if the landlord knows if the plaque was mounted on the floor or on a building or anything? If you say it was there in 1993 then it couldnt have been built on by Greenwich House, but when I was there I noticed that it looks like recently there have been some movements of earth so I don't know it it has been churned up or what really. see what tomorrow evening brings!