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After the Leeds game last night I heard two guys mention that the Lord Nelson in Holbeck had been burnt out and was being demolished. Not seen it mentioned anywhere. Anybody shed any light ?

http://www.westyorksfire.gov.uk/incidents/378Not a lot of info

That's a shame if so. Last time I looked at the place it was like a ghost town down there, you could just imagine seeing a tumbleweed blow past. I have a shot of it taken about three months ago herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/569825 ... hotostream

YEP report here: http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... _1_3685816

I passed the site this morning. Just a couple of seven foot walls and a pile of rubble.

Funny that isn't it? Another historic building that the owners have vacated and have been trying to sell (unsuccessfully) for ages mysteriously catches fire and has to be demolished.Seems to happen a lot in Leeds, doesn't it..?

raveydavey wrote: Funny that isn't it? Another historic building that the owners have vacated and have been trying to sell (unsuccessfully) for ages mysteriously catches fire and has to be demolished.Seems to happen a lot in Leeds, doesn't it..? The fired Regent a few weeks earlier as well.

Here's a few different faces of the Lord Nelson over the last 40 years.

Until the freehold was bought by the Armley Brewery [sometime around 1898], the pub was owned by Mrs Emily Maynell Ingram of Temple Newsam House.

I didn't know the pub as a customer but only saw it when out of use - I have to say that the dazzling white finish and the "typewriter" pale blue lower case name sign, the latter particularly, were really incongruous and took away all its Old World and local charm.