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good morning all
is there any truth in the rumour that wetherspoons have bought that big old building on the left hand side between hyde park traffic lights and the skyrack pub, I was always led to believe that area was known as the dry mile as there was some old rule about selling alcohol in that area.also does any-body remember what the old building was used for?it seems to have been empty and for sale for years.
regards to all
sm1

Looks like it: http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... -1-6992609

I may have got the wrong building, but wasn't it originally a Christian Science Church ??

blakey/new shoes
thanks for info guys and the link to the yep report,in the report it states they have one pub in headingley????
regards
sm1

So is Buckingham House and Elinor Lupton the same building?.

Don't forget the new Wetherspoons in Morley "The Picture House"

Can't win can you?... People bemoan the pubs closing down, now there's a new one opening and they're still not happy!

snowman1 wrote:blakey/new shoes
thanks for info guys and the link to the yep report,in the report it states they have one pub in headingley????
regards
sm1

Is the spokesman being confused by the Hedley Verity a name that could be considered synonymous with Headingley but firmly in Leeds City Centre. It, Stick and Twist the Three Hulats in Chapel Allerton and the Old Unicorn (Bramley town street) opening soon are the nearest pubs owned by the Wetherspoons group as far as I am aware.

hi tyke bhoy
I bet its the hedley verity,after all it was the Y.E.P. I have long since given up buying that paper.
looking forward to trying the unicorn its supposed to open tomorrow.
regards
sm1

snowman1 wrote:hi tyke bhoy
I bet its the hedley verity,after all it was the Y.E.P. I have long since given up buying that paper.
looking forward to trying the unicorn its supposed to open tomorrow.
regards
sm1

I know it's the YEP but they are supposedly quoting a Wetherspoons spokesperson. Neither the Llloyds no7 or wetherspoons web sites calim any pub in Headingley and the only place I could think of remotely like one of their pubs is Arc but that appears to be aprt of an entirely different chain.