Caffs & Greasy spoons

[Trojan]

simonm wrote: I don't remember a Betty's, but would it be the same as the Harrogate one? I do remember the ranchburger joint as the Ceylon tea room. To get to it you had to go downstairs, I can't remember what was on the ground floor!     I remember having a snack in Bettys Leeds around 1968. I think it closed shortly afterwards - they said they couldn't afford the rent increase - this was at the time of the first property boom. In those days I don't think it was as posh as it's now become - or I wouldn't have been able to afford to eat there!

[wiggy]

[quotenick="Trojan"][quotenick="wiggy"] Reginal Perrin wrote: wiggy wrote: rikj wrote: Yes, eap. i am angry with labour as a matter of course,look at the state of this once green and pleasant land...they are running the country...and they sold out the labour dream. All probably true and justified - but they are better than the alternative. If they'd stayed in there'd be no health service left today for starters. It was they who destroyed British manufacturing industry, it was they who brainwashed the majority of the electorate into thinking that taxes should only go one way, it was they who sold off the council house stock at a discount and didnt' replace them, it was they who privatised hospital cleaning giving us the dirty hospitals they had the cheek to complain about at the last election. I've been a Labour supporter all my working life. New Labour are not all they ought to be but when I think back to the Thatcher era, and I see Cameron smirking his oily smile, I shiver and opt for voting for them again. selling off the council houses was a disgrace,i must concur and with that the power of the unions decreased...not many folk with a mortgage can afford to go on strike.me? well i was born over a hundred years too late,the great days of great britain are gone and so has our culture....my thoughts,others are available.

[stevief]

Trojan wrote: simonm wrote: I don't remember a Betty's, but would it be the same as the Harrogate one? I do remember the ranchburger joint as the Ceylon tea room. To get to it you had to go downstairs, I can't remember what was on the ground floor!     I remember having a snack in Bettys Leeds around 1968. I think it closed shortly afterwards - they said they couldn't afford the rent increase - this was at the time of the first property boom. In those days I don't think it was as posh as it's now become - or I wouldn't have been able to afford to eat there! Tsk Tsk Tsk The management of 'Betty's' would be mortified to discover they'd been included in a thread entitled 'Caffs and greasy spoons'

[spongebob]

Ah good old David Street caff, used to get fish and chips from there most days when we had the garage round the corner on Water Lane, so greasy you could scrape it off and lube wheel bearings with it. In fact their spam fritters were so greasy you could feel the fat lining your arteries as you ate it.I believe they were offered the option of a unit in whatever phase of Holbeck urban village it is to become but only if they became a swanky bistro. Just realised its over 6 years since they booted us out of Water Lane, hardly recognise the site now either.

[rangieowner]

I saw a van on Davis street on monday morning had DAVID ST CAFE written on the side

[simonm]

A few more photo's of old Leeds cafes, courtesy of Arry Awk.

[simonm]

A few more photo's of old Leeds cafes, courtesy of Arry Awk.

[simonm]

Courtesy of Arry Awk

[simonm]

Courtesy of Arry Awk

[arry_awk]

Thanks for those posts Simon!Betty's was on the corner of Lands Lane and Commercial St(Now a 'chain' Card Shop!)Arry.PS I hope the Albion St ones were of help?