lost chippies of leeds

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Sun 10 Feb, 2008 4:32 pm

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stevief · Post by **stevief** » Sun 10 Feb, 2008 7:24 pm

The house on the right here was Beechwood fisheries in the '70s.Situated on Beechwood Crescent near Burley Park Station.

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Sun 10 Feb, 2008 7:24 pm

stevief wrote: The house on the right here was Beechwood fisheries in the '70s.Situated on Beechwood Crescent near Burley Park Station.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 10 Feb, 2008 9:15 pm

stevief wrote: The house on the right here was Beechwood fisheries in the '70s.Situated on Beechwood Crescent near Burley Park Station. This was an excellent chippy - I used to live nearby. It lasted beyond the 1970's - it was still there in the early/mid 90's to my knowledge.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 10 Feb, 2008 9:33 pm

On Methley Drive a chippy I remember.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 10 Feb, 2008 9:37 pm

Another I remember .This is the corner of Armley Lodge Rd and Salisbury View. Once a chippy, then a chinese now a total mess.

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Tue 12 Feb, 2008 9:31 pm

Sunnybank Avenue,off New Road Side Horsforth.It's now a pizza place(next to the chemist).It was known as 'Curleys'.

johnnyg · Post by **johnnyg** » Tue 12 Feb, 2008 10:37 pm

Drapesy, yes that was the old chip shop on Methley Drive. me and my mates used to go there after playing football on Scott Hall school field and get chips and a fishcake to finish off our night. It was a good chippie.A better one though was Carey's, on Sholebroke Mount, opposite the old Scott Hall pub. Joe and Agnes ran it and it was the best chippy around in the 60s and 70s. Joe did a special sausage cake that, according to the write-up in the Yorkshire Evening Post, had aphrodisiac properties - but I was too young to know.To confirm an earlier point, Drakes at Potternewton roundabout did use to be Fields, and they have kept up the tradition of Lionel and his wife by always having a queue of customers due to the good quality of their fish and chips.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Tue 12 Feb, 2008 10:41 pm

johnnyg wrote: Drapesy, yes that was the old chip shop on Methley Drive. me and my mates used to go there after playing football on Scott Hall school field and get chips and a fishcake to finish off our night. It was a good chippie. What a wonderful forum this is, this post reminded me of summer 1961, and going to the Leeds RL "Summer School" at Headingley. Afterwards, we'd call at a chippy somewhere in the streets between Kirkstall and Burley Roads, and have fish and chips and onions in vinegar. No idea what is was called, but they were delicious - or is hunger the best cook?

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Thu 06 Mar, 2008 2:26 pm

When I lived in the centre of Leeds in the 1960s, our local chippy was on Park Lane, at the bottom of Leighton Street, on a small parade of shops roughly on the site of the Nuffield Hospital. I believe these were demolished in the late sixties when the inner ring road was being built.