Leeds lost pubs

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sat 05 Jul, 2008 10:09 pm

Catweazle wrote: I've had a pretty good look through the pages and don't remember seeing these which I've noticed boarded up on my travels round town....apologies if any were mentioned or have reopened...Kirkstall Lightsthat pub with one of those eighties/early 90s names (ie rat and parrot, ferret and firkin etc) at the town end of on Burley Roadalso has anyone mentioned that pub in the sort of Kirkstall Hill/Burley road area in the trees (going up towards Headingley) which has been derelict since at least the start of the milleniumGlobe- Sheepscar and in town...Big Lil'sNags Head... Ok...1.Kirkstall Lights has its own threadhttp://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Messages.as ... adID=10062 .You are referring to the Fax and Newt, formerly Ruland HotelIts on the pubs worth celebrating thread here (page4). It seems to be being renovated at the moment - dont know if its going to reopen as a pub or not.http://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Mess ... ghLight=13. The Boston Exchange/Boston Diner/ St.Anne;s pub has been demolished - it has been mentioned a few times. There's a pic of it when derelict halfway down page 2 of this thread. Now demolished and the site is empty.4. the Globe - now residential - there's a pic of it being converted on Page 1 of this thread.5. Big Lil's - this has been mentioned on the 'Town centre pubs' thread - but only in passing.6. Nags Head, Vicar Lane. Now a bookmakers - couple of Pics halfway down page 4 of this thread.

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » Sat 05 Jul, 2008 10:43 pm

Ta for the info to my rather clumsily worded post (eg mentioning Nags Head being boarded up when it shut years ago etc). Also a coincidence as I was going to mention the Ancestor when I next came on here but have been beaten to it!On the Kirkstall Lites thread someone mentioned the problem of a dodgy pub closing and the clientele all moving to one nearby and eventually getting that closed.I spent a few years living in one of London's satellite towns and this happened to such an extent that in about 4 or 5 years (in the late 80s/early 90s) about 5 (1 closed twice!) of the town centres' most popular pubs lost their licenses and closed when the drug dealers moved in!You just knew that when one closed one of the nearby pub's life could be measured in months.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sat 05 Jul, 2008 11:40 pm

raveydavey wrote: Brandy wrote: SHAFTESBURY GONE! Well, thats that then.Don't they have to get permission to knock places down?Slightly further up York Road, it must be two years now since the Lion and Lamb was also demolished, supposedly to be redveloped as an Aldi (or similar budget supermarket) and nothing has happened... Here's a photo I took shortly after it closed

ackers72 · Post by **ackers72** » Sun 06 Jul, 2008 12:56 am

I passed the Shaftesbury last night or should I say the pile of rubble, and as I drove further down the old City Lights was on fire too!!!I also notice the Wheatsheaf on Geldard Road is boarded up!!!!Are we gonna have any pubs left come 2009????

Ward Cleaver · Post by **Ward Cleaver** » Mon 07 Jul, 2008 3:50 pm

ackers72 wrote: I also notice the Wheatsheaf on Geldard Road is boarded up!!!!Are we gonna have any pubs left come 2009???? This was taken shortly after it closed. It is now a bit more trashed and has better metal type sheeting at the doors and windows.Picture used with permission from http://www.urbexforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=250

jamesy08 · Post by **jamesy08** » Mon 07 Jul, 2008 7:50 pm

does anyone remember the cambrian pub use to be the ex libary in ninvah road in holbeck around about 1987 use have a fire in main room didnt last long

FLOJO · Post by **FLOJO** » Tue 08 Jul, 2008 7:43 am

jamesy08 wrote: does anyone remember the cambrian pub use to be the ex libary in ninvah road in holbeck around about 1987 use have a fire in main room didnt last long Hi Jamesy08, I used to work next door to the cambrian at Kays in the eighties we finished work at 1 pm and went in for lunch, the odd nights we went in there was not many people in,but at the time there was travellers parked opposite so maybe people were afraid. I think the owner was an irish guy from Beeston.

Ruffarse · Post by **Ruffarse** » Tue 08 Jul, 2008 1:05 pm

Hullo JAMESY 08, The old Library on Nineveh Rd, or Cambrian, is now an office HQ for one of these arty farty graphic design companies. I used to do express deliveries for them and I can assure the fire place is still in situ, but only as a feature.Anyone remember the Crystal Palace which if memory serves me well was on Sweet St, opposite Meadow Lane gas works?

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 08 Jul, 2008 9:13 pm

Ruffarse wrote: Hullo JAMESY 08, The old Library on Nineveh Rd, or Cambrian, is now an office HQ for one of these arty farty graphic design companies. I used to do express deliveries for them and I can assure the fire place is still in situ, but only as a feature.Anyone remember the Crystal Palace which if memory serves me well was on Sweet St, opposite Meadow Lane gas works? Aye, I remember the Crystal Palace, which I think is listed somewhere on this thread. I never went in, mind, but I can remember it being opposite the LA Bowl - which is now also gone, completely flattened and the site cleared.There is an article in the YEP tonight that the near legendary Josephs Well is also closed. Apparently the licencee simply had enough and shut up shop! The owners (Enterprise Inns - again - is this merely co-incidence?) say the reopening is "imminent", but we shall see.

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Tue 08 Jul, 2008 9:34 pm

A workmate was in The Wise Owl in Cookridge on Saturday night,as he left-around 8.30-the landlord was locking up,the pub was empty.