[HELP]Viaduct Showbar which used to be a football pub

[BIG N]

raveydavey wrote: BIG N wrote: liits wrote: I wonder why it was known as the Viaduct in 1850, 16 years before a viaduct was built? Maybe - in best Leeds Council tradition, the railway viaduct was announced twenty years before they managed to secure funding and start building it, so they named the pub in anticipation of the event. Of course if that was the case I guess the planned viaduct would have been an eight line wide, double deck affair but what we see now is a much watered down version.walks away whistling quietly     Looking back through council records, you are right - the council initially planned a network of viaducts that would criss-cross the city and provide a fast and efficient transport system for all the citizens of Leeds. However they eventually just built the one viaduct. Despite promises to expand the system and radically upgrade the existing viaduct when more funds became available, this never happened. HA HA HA - sits here looking smug lolWhat is it they say about history repeats itself lol

[Phill_dvsn]

Actually this city would have nothing if it didn't grow in the Victorian era, they gave us magnificent buildings like the town hall, and built all those viaducts bringing the railways into Leeds. The station itself supported by 18 million bricks.It got me wondering when ''Lets hold this City back ineffective Leeds City Council'' came into creation and started mismanaging this City. I was surprised to see it didn't come along until 1974http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_City_CouncilIt looks to me as if it were the Municipal Borough of Leeds, in place before them.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Bor ... _LeedsIt's before my time, can anyone remember how this city was run?    

[Catweazle]

I went in a few times early part of the millenium and it was just like a typical workingmans boozer (which there are now in 2012 very few left in the city centre) with obviously the football connection.What stands out in my mind most about it is the 9-day wonder "campaign" in the Evening Post (probably about 8 or 9 years ago) to keep this "famous Leeds United" pub out of the hands of the developers. If the OP wants some info there'd be a few articles in the Evening Post around that time.In retrospect the campaign was probably nothing more than a coincidence of a paper desperate to fill some space and a regular maybe the landlord who wanted to get some publicity for the place. With this borne out when it became a gay cabaret venue without the merest whimper.

[45man]

I used to work near the Merrion Centre and frequent the Wrens pub occassionally.The landlord was a colourful character,'Keith' I think was his name.I seem to recall him wearing fluffy slippers regularly.This must have been in the 90's.My understanding is that the 'Gay Village' was just developing.I think Tetley's moved Keith to the Viaduct ,with the idea of trying to attract the pink pound.For whatever reason I don't think this happened.It must have been after Keith left,that the pub became a Leeds United enclave.Although I prepare to be proved wrong!.

[Tasa]

45man wrote: I used to work near the Merrion Centre and frequent the Wrens pub occassionally.The landlord was a colourful character,'Keith' I think was his name.I seem to recall him wearing fluffy slippers regularly.This must have been in the 90's.My understanding is that the 'Gay Village' was just developing.I think Tetley's moved Keith to the Viaduct ,with the idea of trying to attract the pink pound.For whatever reason I don't think this happened.It must have been after Keith left,that the pub became a Leeds United enclave.Although I prepare to be proved wrong!. I wondered what had happened to Keith when he left the Wrens. I also remember him as the landlord of the Ship on Briggate, with his partner Cliff, in the late 1970s, before they moved to the Wrens.