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Mystery pub needs identifying in a new picture recently added.http://www.leodis.net/searchResults.asp ... RPAGE=1But it gives me the opportunity to query what happens with this feature. If you look at previous photos in that section, loads of people write in with suggestions but nothing ever seems to come of it.

At risk of sounding 'bewildered' I couldn't see a mystery pub. It's a mystery to me.

Behind the gentlemen in the charabanc in the top picture.

This one?http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL

Sorry I see it now but don't know that one.Hat shops did ok back then.

Geordie-exile wrote: Mystery pub needs identifying in a new picture recently added.http://www.leodis.net/searchResults.asp ... RPAGE=1But it gives me the opportunity to query what happens with this feature. If you look at previous photos in that section, loads of people write in with suggestions but nothing ever seems to come of it. Bentley's pubs in Morley that I remember were The Nelson - clearly not: the Carriers Arms (the old one on Old Bank Street): the Hembrigg - High Street - I don't think so: and the Sportsman on Hungerhill - I reckon that is the pub

majorhoundii wrote: Geordie-exile wrote: Mystery pub needs identifying in a new picture recently added.http://www.leodis.net/searchResults.asp ... RPAGE=1But it gives me the opportunity to query what happens with this feature. If you look at previous photos in that section, loads of people write in with suggestions but nothing ever seems to come of it. Bentley's pubs in Morley that I remember were The Nelson - clearly not: the Carriers Arms (the old one on Old Bank Street): the Hembrigg - High Street - I don't think so: and the Sportsman on Hungerhill - I reckon that is the pub I don't understand where 'Bentley's' comes into it - am I missing something? The signs above the windows say 'Home brewed ales' and 'Bottled Guiness' The signs on the side reveal that it was the 'something' Hotel- and the proprietor it would seem was a Mr or Mrs Hobson. I would have thought a trawl of directories of Morley could reveal more.

The building behind looks pretty distinctive too.

The photo was taken outisde the Fountain Head, Beckett Street before the outside was remodled by Melbourne [whotook the pub on in 1923]. Prior to that it had briefly been a Hemingways pub. Before 1921 it had brewed its own beer. This ties in with the “Home Brewed Ales” sign.Edwin Hobson was Licensee of the Fountain Head from 1904 through until 1913 [when he moved up the road to the Cemetery Tavern]. I you look at a later picture of the premises, it is possible to see that the adjacent building, St Agnes’ Church Sunday School [which was between Museum Street & Museum Terrace] is exactly the same in both photgraphs.Of the two small photo’s, the one of the left is culled from Ancestry.com, the one on the right, a very poor enlargement of, I believe, the same person – Edwin Hobson. [This also ties in with his name being painted on the wall to the left of the charabanc.    

Time and again this place astonishes me.Fantastic work there liits.Would you kindly put a link to this page on leodis? Or I can do it if you'd rather.