A very old Establishment down the Skulls head yard (Part 1)

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 9:00 pm

From my pictures of the yard can you show me (try explain) were there were originally Drapsey?

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 9:04 pm

Phill_d wrote: Wow that's amazing. What are they doing here? I can't believe it either. Thanks for that forgetful cat. Can you see these from the roadside Drapsey or do you need to go round the back?? You need to go round the back - the office building is next to door to National tyres.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 9:10 pm

Phill_d wrote: From my pictures of the yard can you show me (try explain) were there were originally Drapsey? Very hard to say Im afraid Phill. It was many years ago - there was an article in the Yorkshire Evening post and I remember going to look at them - must have been around 1969/1970. A few years later I went back to show them to somebody to find a bricked up section in the wall where they had been. I went back again a few months ago but couldn't relocate the place - there was a locked alleyway that I suspect is the one you photographed - perhaps you're right about that render. I have a gut feeling and a vague memory that it was a smaller/narrower yard or alley than the one you photographed - posibly running at right angles off it??I'll try again sometime if the alley is now accessible.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 9:41 pm

Ok cheers Drapsey. So the skulls weren't actually on the pub wall then and they would have been moved 70-75(ish) when this new building on Buslingthorpe lane was built then? I wonder what the connection is if any? I can only see one possible small yard and that's behind the old cafe running towards Kirkgate on the Google shots.

Barwicker · Post by **Barwicker** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 9:45 pm

Phill_d wrote: This ones especially for Simonn. I know he'll love this!!A very old Manchester establishment is once again proudly on display in Leeds. I'd be interested to hear if anyone can recall what this shop sold and was called. Probably not a Manchester establishment. A Manchester Warehouse was a shop which specialised in selling Cotton and Linen goods. Apparently at one time Cotton cloth was known as Manchester cloth as most of it was woven in the vicinity of Manchester. Try Manchester Warehouseman on Google fpr a fuller explanation.I too pass the site regularly and am appalled at the state of dereliction.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 9:53 pm

Well that's looking spot on there Barwicker. It looks like the A is missing on this sign, but I think your right. It takes the S.L gang a while but they always crack the puzzle in the end 2 solved in one night here!

Forgetful Cat · Post by **Forgetful Cat** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 10:04 pm

In the surrealist pamphlet, Gareth Brown says that the original location was occupied by a company called Ion Dyson, which relocated to a purpose built office block on Buslingthorpe lane in the 1970's, taking the skulls with them.Thishttp://www.leedsonline.co.uk/info/938/suggests the building still bears the company name, though they are no longer there.Gareth states that he tried to contact Ion Dyson without success. A quick google and companies house check shows that they are now registered at a pub in York, and still trading.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 10:08 pm

This is all fascinating stuff. So they weren't actually on the pub then? Even the fella who wrote the book Haunted Leeds didn't know what happened to them.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Fri 11 Apr, 2008 8:39 am

Phill_d wrote: This is all fascinating stuff. So they weren't actually on the pub then? Even the fella who wrote the book Haunted Leeds didn't know what happened to them. I think its hard to say where the pub actually was Phill. The wall the skulls were on is/was old and could have had various uses/owners over the years. I think the skulls were somewhere here;

Si · Post by Si » Fri 11 Apr, 2008 9:38 am

Some great Secret Leeds detective work there! Well done to everyone involved, especially Phill, Drapesy and Forgetful Cat. I'm thoroughly enjoying this thread!!! Reminds me of the great Phill-v-Drapesy railway bridge debate of '07!