THE PROSPECT OF LEEDS FROM THE KNOSTROP ROAD 1715

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sun 09 Sep, 2012 4:53 pm

This picture/painting/drawing by Francis Place has appeared on this site before. My title should've read "1715"It is the fourth illustration down on the right of this page of Leodis 'Discovering Leeds'.http://tinyurl.com/9le57v2A Thoresby Society book (circa 1987) by Prof M Beresford 'East End, West End..etc'[ISBN 0900741236] the author seems to have tracked down the vantage point, Cavalier Hill.He writes:- "On the plateau top, just off the York Road, stands a public house that has survived the demolition of Victorian streets to minister to the thirsts of the new industrial buildings. It is the Prospect Inn: from it's back door the ground drops almost vertically towards the railway cutting, still giving that uninterrupted view into central Leeds which attracted artists in the past."In Place's picture the houses in the foreground are on the Bank; below them is Fearne's Island, the Nether Mills and the Navigation lock at Crown Point Weir.I can't find the pub.Does anyone have a current image of the same view?

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 09 Sep, 2012 9:32 pm

This is the pub. It threw me for a bit as I only remember it as the Richmond, its later namehttp://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIde ... SPLAY=FULL

Si · Post by Si » Mon 10 Sep, 2012 10:15 am

drapesy wrote: This is the pub. It threw me for a bit as I only remember it as the Richmond, its later namehttp://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIde ... SPLAY=FULL Love the story posted by a Dave Wharton (13th post) of when the Prospect had a Western theme!

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Mon 10 Sep, 2012 12:00 pm

Thank you drapsey. Still no wiser where it is but the changed name may help track down.

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Mon 10 Sep, 2012 12:55 pm

Jogon wrote: Thank you drapsey. Still no wiser where it is but the changed name may help track down. Don't you mean 'where it was' Jogon?The Leodis text for the picture is....Undated, Image shows a front view of the Prospect Hotel. During the war static water tanks were located at the front of the pub. This Tetley house became 'The Richmond' before being burnt down in the early 1990s and then flattened.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Mon 10 Sep, 2012 2:27 pm

I'm after the location. Does anyone have the pub's address from an old phone book/trade journal - in the hope that it's not developed and the view blocked ...."from it's back door the ground drops almost vertically towards the railway cutting, still giving that uninterrupted view into central Leeds which attracted artists in the past"Would like to take a pic "now" of the 1715 view.

Hats Off · Post by **Hats Off** » Mon 10 Sep, 2012 2:42 pm

Jogon wrote: Thank you drapsey. Still no wiser where it is but the changed name may help track down. The pub was on Upper Accommodation Rd where the junction with Richmond Hill Approach is now. The car park from the pub front can still be seen but it is overgrown with greenery now.Regards.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Mon 10 Sep, 2012 4:04 pm

Thank you, v helpful.

beast · Post by **beast** » Mon 10 Sep, 2012 5:45 pm

Hats Off wrote: Jogon wrote: Thank you drapsey. Still no wiser where it is but the changed name may help track down. The pub was on Upper Accommodation Rd where the junction with Richmond Hill Approach is now. The car park from the pub front can still be seen but it is overgrown with greenery now.Regards. you can still get around the back of it now and look down Railway Street towards the city centre,although houses have been built at the back of it now. I used to go in when it was the Richmond. Can't for the life of me remember what it was called when it had its Wild West theme though !

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Mon 10 Sep, 2012 5:55 pm

http://goo.gl/maps/Vl9KX