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Found this on the latest planning applications whenI was looking for something else.20.10.10Changeof use from a working mens club(sui genens)to form public house.Former Torre Social clubApplicant.Orbis Management,L.McWilliamsPO Box 368HarrogateAnyone heard of these people and what doessui genens mean please ?

Sorry,its SUI GENERIS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generisSee the Town Planning bit.

Il give it a week lol.

Chrism wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generisSee the Town Planning bit. I've just looked that link up and I'm totally baffled (that's easily done I admit).

Brandy wrote: Il give it a week lol. Any advance (or revised downward bid) on a week?.AND - what might it be called ?

The Optimists Arms ?

Tory Harms (Torre Arms). Apologies for apparently bringing politics into the forum as the name is only meant as a joke. I wonder how the name Torre for the area came about?Though I did not live particularly close to the area, as a child in the late 1940s to early 1950s I used to sometimes play around there. Sneaking into the tram depot was great fun. I can still mentally smell the gorgeous aroma of bread and other things being baked at the nearby Stokes & Dalton. I think there used to be a pub that may have become (or was) the social club but I never went into that.

Leodian wrote: Tory Harms (Torre Arms). Apologies for apparently bringing politics into the forum as the name is only meant as a joke. I wonder how the name Torre for the area came about?Though I did not live particularly close to the area, as a child in the late 1940s to early 1950s I used to sometimes play around there. Sneaking into the tram depot was great fun. I can still mentally smell the gorgeous aroma of bread and other things being baked at the nearby Stokes & Dalton. I think there used to be a pub that may have become (or was) the social club but I never went into that. You will be thinking of The "New Eagle" a John Smiths pub of some repute, which was next door to the Torre Club. The club started life as a bus mans club in a Nissan hut.

Thanks barneyrubble. The name 'New Eagle' does sound familiar.