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Growing up in Newtown-Burmantofts we seemed to have a pub on almost every corner.Granville,Beckett arms,pub on each corner(I think)Beckett St/Green road.plus loads more and all the clubs.Harehills Lane must be one of the longest roads in Leeds but had only 2 pubs. From the Shaftesbury the wasn't another pub till the FForded Green.The Brown hare came much later.Now just the Brown Hare is left.From the Fforde Green - nothing.

Can't disagree with what you say but if you are including clubs there was the Conservative Club at the corner of Ashley Road/Harehills Lane. I hope I'm not being finnicky. Merry Christmas to "All Our Readers".

No your not been finnicky.The working mens and labour club were just off Harehils Lane,but members only,not 'pubs'.In a similar vein,I remember someone telling me all the pubs on Kirkstall Rd.were on the right hand side leaving town,can't think of one on the left.

dogduke wrote: Growing up in Newtown-Burmantofts we seemed to have a pub on almost every corner.Granville,Beckett arms,pub on each corner(I think)Beckett St/Green road.plus loads more and all the clubs.Harehills Lane must be one of the longest roads in Leeds but had only 2 pubs. From the Shaftesbury the wasn't another pub till the FForded Green.The Brown hare came much later.Now just the Brown Hare is left.From the Fforde Green - nothing. ha ... the good old Granville .. used to pop in for a pint there on the way to the Mecca at age 16 ... (1971). Remember the grafitti in the lads bogs ... "Do not use the toilet seatthe crabs in here can jump ten feet,Jump ten feet? that's f*** all,The Granville crabs are ten foot tall!"

dogduke wrote: No your not been finnicky.The working mens and labour club were just off Harehils Lane,but members only,not 'pubs'.In a similar vein,I remember someone telling me all the pubs on Kirkstall Rd.were on the right hand side leaving town,can't think of one on the left. There was one on the left - the Milford Tavern. There's almost nothing left now - the Rising sun shut just leaves the Cardigan Arms.

To be fair, there's not much on the left hand side of Kirkstall Road as you come out of town at all, unless you're into factories/industrial units and stuff like that.The Granville. Ah, now that was a hell hole. Cira 80s, full of petty crims and maybe some not so petty ones as well.

That Kirkstall road thing is quite unusual though.From the YorkshireRose in Guiseley (the first pub on the left all the way from Leeds) it goes On the Right going out (or on the left going in as ive done it going in and I cant be bothered to change it!) there's:Yorkshire RoseWoolpackFleeceis there another one in Horsforth New Road Side i've forgotten ?West EndVesper GateKirkstall Lights*George*Cardigan ArmsRising Sun *Wellington (?)another bar with a new name I've forgotten the name ofand absolutely nothing on the left (that's 11or12 to 0 recently and 8 or 9 to 0 now).I wonder if there's anywhere else in England like that and why it happened...*all now gone but there only a couple of years or less ago and showing just unusual the situation was

zip55 wrote: ha ... the good old Granville .. used to pop in for a pint there on the way to the Mecca at age 16 ... (1971). Remember the grafitti in the lads bogs ... "Do not use the toilet seatthe crabs in here can jump ten feet,Jump ten feet? that's f*** all,The Granville crabs are ten foot tall!" Ha ha - inflation is simply everywhere - when I was in the RAF from 1954 - 1956 the standard figure in that rhyme for the athletic prowess of the crabs was SIX feet !!

Catweazle wrote: That Kirkstall road thing is quite unusual though.From the YorkshireRose in Guiseley (the first pub on the left all the way from Leeds) it goes On the Right going out (or on the left going in as ive done it going in and I cant be bothered to change it!) there's:Yorkshire RoseWoolpackFleeceis there another one in Horsforth New Road Side i've forgotten ?West EndVesper GateKirkstall Lights*George*Cardigan ArmsRising Sun *Wellington (?)another bar with a new name I've forgotten the name ofand absolutely nothing on the left (that's 11or12 to 0 recently and 8 or 9 to 0 now).I wonder if there's anywhere else in England like that and why it happened...*all now gone but there only a couple of years or less ago and showing just unusual the situation was In 'Dick's days', you can add (starting from Kirkstall) the Royal Sovereign, The Old George, the Woodman, The Milford(the only one on the south side },The New Inn, The Morning Star and the Woolpack(another one) Also the Yorkshire Rose is on the other side of the road to what you seem to think it is. Catweazle !    

drapesy wrote: [Also the Yorkshire Rose is on the other side of the road to what you seem to think it is. Catweazle !     In days of yore, the Yorkshire Rose was called "The Commercial" and its nickname, for obvious reasons, was "T' Long Sign."