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Posted: Sat 09 Feb, 2008 12:18 am
by Tel. 0532
Knocked down to make way for the A64/A58M fly-over near the DSS building coming into Leeds Not a great pub but a real Leeds landmark.
Posted: Sat 09 Feb, 2008 2:13 am
by liits
liits' partner said that his post was disgusting and that he should remove it. So I have done.
Posted: Sat 09 Feb, 2008 10:59 am
by zip55
The Woodpecker was a pub you went past on the 67 / 68 bus on your way in to town.
Posted: Fri 07 Mar, 2008 3:14 pm
by Laz
zip55 wrote: The Woodpecker was a pub you went past on the 67 / 68 bus on your way in to town. No I think you are wrong. The 67/68 went down Easterly road and down Rounday Road - past the Fforde Green and the Gaiety.The one that went from Seacroft past the Woodpecker was the Number 16. (and the 11) I used both on my way into town - happy days
Posted: Fri 07 Mar, 2008 4:53 pm
by wiggy
the woodpecker was pulled down in the late 80s,the old one has been gone donkeys years.the flyover was built in the early 70s.
Posted: Fri 07 Mar, 2008 5:03 pm
by drapesy
Here's a Leodis pic of the Original Woodpecker - the later pub was rebuilt on the opposite side of York Road.
Posted: Fri 07 Mar, 2008 5:06 pm
by drapesy
An even earlier pic from Leodis - I would guess from c1900. The building at the left is another pub - the 'Shoulder of Mutton'.
Posted: Fri 07 Mar, 2008 6:19 pm
by chameleon
wiggy wrote: the woodpecker was pulled down in the late 80s,the old one has been gone donkeys years.the flyover was built in the early 70s. Sounds right to me wiggy - it survived and sat, dwarfed, next to the flyover for many years.
Posted: Sat 08 Mar, 2008 8:35 am
by tyke bhoy
Remember the fly over only originally went out of Leeds. Coming into Leeds you had to come off the a64 at the Woodpecker junction and then join the a64(m) which then became almost immediately the a58(m). I can't remember the exact time line but the flyover was probably completed inbound around the time the Kremlin was being built.
Posted: Sat 08 Mar, 2008 11:41 am
by chameleon
tyke bhoy wrote: Remember the fly over only originally went out of Leeds. Coming into Leeds you had to come off the a64 at the Woodpecker junction and then join the a64(m) which then became almost immediately the a58(m). I can't remember the exact time line but the flyover was probably completed inbound around the time the Kremlin was being built. Quarry house opened in 1993; The inner Ring Road at that point was there long before that.Here are a couple of links witha little bit of the history:
http://www.leedsconstructionlink.co.uk/ ... mleeds.htm