Leeds lost pubs

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sat 24 May, 2008 8:05 pm

Its still " Hoagy's Piano bar"

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Sat 24 May, 2008 11:11 pm

Great memories of the Hussar's back in the sixties..used to start our Saturday night crawl from there, in the big bar upstairs. Happy days

Starbuck · Post by **Starbuck** » Wed 28 May, 2008 12:55 pm

Has anyone any information or pictures of The Albion on the corner of Jack Lane and Grape Street in Hunslet. It had been my Mum's "Grandad's"(step grandad or something) pub and my parents had their wedding do in there (Feb 59) after which I think it soon closed. Can't find anything on Leodis. Pubs must have been in the family - Mum was born in the Waterloo on East Street in 1940

jam · Post by **jam** » Thu 29 May, 2008 9:37 pm

Just seen the demolition signs up at the Chained bull in Moortown!

jam · Post by **jam** » Thu 29 May, 2008 9:47 pm

drapesy wrote: jam wrote: yeah the skinners is on scott hall rd. i'm talking about a red and white building on buslingthorpe between the skinners on the junction of scott hall rd and the grove pub at the bottom end on the junction of meanwood rd I think you mean "Primrose " not "Grove" yeah your right, don't know where i got grove from

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Fri 30 May, 2008 8:57 pm

I don't know if it is a case of them standing out because of the brightly coloured signs they are using, but lots of Enterprise Inns pubs seem to be "To Let" at the moment.Mind you with the supermarkets selling booze as a loss leader to attract folk in, who can be surprised at the parlous state of the English Pub? Practically every pub I pass between work and home now is either closed, demolished or To Let. Will there be any left in a few years?

EllyG · Post by **EllyG** » Sat 31 May, 2008 12:09 am

Starbuck - I could not find any records for "The Albion" on Jack Lane. But there was mention of a public house called "The Boyne".

johnnyg · Post by **johnnyg** » Sat 31 May, 2008 4:02 am

Starbuck wrote: Has anyone any information or pictures of The Albion on the corner of Jack Lane and Grape Street in Hunslet. It had been my Mum's "Grandad's"(step grandad or something) pub and my parents had their wedding do in there (Feb 59) after which I think it soon closed. Can't find anything on Leodis. Pubs must have been in the family - Mum was born in the Waterloo on East Street in 1940 I have attached a photo from "The Hunslet Engine Works: over a century and a half of locomotive building" by D. H. Townsley, published by Plateway Press in 1998 (ISBN 1 871980 38 0), page 153. The photo is of the Hunslet Engine Co, on Jack Lane which runs left to right across the lower part of the photo. The white building on the right of the row of terraced houses is, I think, The Albion that you refer to. This photo is from 1949. The building in the centre on the right-hand edge of the photo (just creeping into the picture) is the British Queen on Grape Street.

Starbuck · Post by **Starbuck** » Mon 02 Jun, 2008 9:54 am

johnnyg - Thanks. What a great picture of Hunslet. I'll show the picture to my mum, she'll know, but it looks like the correct location as described - I was told it was replaced by a small clothing factory and it was "up the road" from the British Queen - which of course is still there ( but sadly no longer a pub). It seems that in the 40's and 50's - and perhaps right up to the time when all the terrace houses were demolished in the slum clearence programmes that this area of Hunslet ( well all Hunslet) had loads of pubs. Even up to the 1990s the Tetley's bitter in the Brassmoulders always tasted better than anywhere else.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Mon 02 Jun, 2008 10:59 pm

It seems the 'grand reopening ' of the Malvern was to no avail - the metal shutters are back up.