Leeds lost pubs

godfather · Post by **godfather** » Mon 08 Sep, 2008 6:53 pm

Over the road from the Shaftesbury, is the Starlight bar, still open and trading. they have three football teams playing saturday and sundays, a pool team and a darts and doms team. sat evening there is a early evening disco playing rock n roll and sixties. a very good welcome from a nice crowd.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Mon 08 Sep, 2008 8:46 pm

BLAKEY wrote: I've just driven down North Street and glanced at the White Stag - although the windows are boarded up I'm sure there was a prominent sign saying something about "new management." The 'new management' sign dates from last year , when it briefly reopened !(only for 2 or 3 months I think)

Bramley4woods · Post by **Bramley4woods** » Tue 09 Sep, 2008 1:45 am

drapesy wrote: BLAKEY wrote: I've just driven down North Street and glanced at the White Stag - although the windows are boarded up I'm sure there was a prominent sign saying something about "new management." The 'new management' sign dates from last year , when it briefly reopened !(only for 2 or 3 months I think) My grandmother lived in the house next door (Behind, as it were) to the Stag. During the war her air raid shelter was the cellar of the Stag. It was there that she aquired her taste for Guinness, or so I've heard ... It looks like it will soon be gone.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 09 Sep, 2008 9:59 pm

Truly sad news - it looks like the Prince of Wales at the bottom of Mill Hill in the city centre has finally closed.Drove past and there is newpaper taped up at the windows along with stickers saying "Another Pub Co failure" and "This landlord threw in the towel after 21 years", or words to that effect.I was in there a month or so ago and although the place wasn't what it used to be, they had the full range of Leeds Brewery beers on and were doing a good trade for a lunchtime.Sad news indeed, especially as it seems desined to become another city centre theme bar / vertical drinking establishment, full of super chilled lager and "smooth" bitter that has suffered a similarly frosty fate it would seem.It does look like we're destined only to have a handful of "showpiece" pubs like the Scabby Taps, Adelphi and Queen Vic left in a few years, with the others being tossed aside or re-opening as this weeks flavour of souless theme bar.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Wed 10 Sep, 2008 9:18 pm

The Wellington on Wellington Street IS closed- but it has the look as if it will reopen, if you know what I mean.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Wed 10 Sep, 2008 9:24 pm

....and there goes another one.... the achingly familiar sight of another shutterered pub - this time the Duttons on Queenswood Drive.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 10 Sep, 2008 10:31 pm

BLIMEY DRAPESY - I only live quarter of a mile away and I'm sure it was open just a few days ago ?? As I drove past I was just thinking that it must be over twenty years since I went in - funnily enough, daft as it seems, I rarely go up Queenswood Drive except when driving past.

jeffn · Post by **jeffn** » Thu 11 Sep, 2008 12:11 pm

Rushers wrote: First visit to this site and I haven't read every thread but of the numerous ones I have read I haven't seen mention of The Courtiers (later called the Oak Tree) at Oak Tree Drive in Gipton. A bit of a troublesome pub as I recall and I think the bar at Moss Isley in the Star Wars film was modelled on it. remember it well, used to call in and get a pint while waiting for the bus to come down the hill, get said bus to the top of the hill to the fairway (early 70's ) . . .

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Fri 12 Sep, 2008 10:27 am

I hear some bad romours about the Woodlands in Rothwell and the White Hart in Woodlesford - anyone got any more info?

Squatch_11 · Post by **Squatch_11** » Fri 12 Sep, 2008 10:34 am

I was having a look on a Leeds United forum this morning at the Woodlands was being discussed on there. Apparently it is boarded up, with rumour of daft rents being requested.Shame really, I've a few mates in Rothwell and have had a few good nights in there....