Leeds lost pubs

LS12 · Post by **LS12** » Wed 14 Jan, 2009 2:51 pm

I have noticed the Victoria at the beginning/ end of Roundhay Road had closed and all the windows have been boarded up with metal sheets!

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Wed 14 Jan, 2009 10:13 pm

LS12 wrote: I have noticed the Victoria at the beginning/ end of Roundhay Road had closed and all the windows have been boarded up with metal sheets! Thats a real shame , it was a fine old pub - there are some 'then and now ' pics on the 'Pubs worth celebrating' thread. The nearby Pointer is closed too at present,, the Skinner's Arms is open again though.

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 15 Jan, 2009 8:41 pm

Do I remember someone suggesting a Blue Plaque for The Duchess?One of the few actual news items in the Leeds Weekly News this week is about a community campaigner lobbying the Civic Trust to recognise the old place and errect a plaque.

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » Sat 17 Jan, 2009 9:09 pm

I noticed that the Station in Yeadon is up for sale and was shut at midday today as was the Rag and Louse which i thought had reopened but looked dead as a dodo at around half one.Pubs shut at Saturday dinnertime - you wouldn't have believed it would ever happen just a few years ago.To be honest I can't believe anyone in their right mind would bother trying to reopen a pub which has shut and has obviously financialy failed considering the sad but obvious permanent shift in the viability of a lot of types of pubs. Surely it's just throwing good money after bad and commercial suicide.Unless a prospective new owner has some really novel ideas to attract new punters and make their boozer stand out from the crowd .

mariner74 · Post by **mariner74** » Mon 19 Jan, 2009 5:02 pm

Fingers crossed for the Engine in Hunslet - any updates? Used to go in for the quiz on a Wednesday night up to about 3 years ago (coinciding with the birth of my first!), and the quiz was run by a fellow mariner. Think the landlord was known as Millsy. Sad news that the Miggy Arms may be demolished soon too, according the YEP. Bit of a hole but a fabulous looking building, a victim of clientele. Maybe this is the future for the classic british boozer - i.e. there isn't one unless the diversification is made into offering more than pie & peas and pork scratchings. Mariner.

Beadleem · Post by **Beadleem** » Tue 20 Jan, 2009 11:04 pm

Good news on The Engine, Hunslet - I am told it has been bought (rumour is by a Bradfordian) and is currently being done up ready for opening - was a bit of a mess inside apparently!

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Wed 21 Jan, 2009 11:10 pm

Doesn't seem much sign of life at the Nelson in Armley (or the one in Holbeck either for that matter) - its not looking good for British heroes / heroines over the last few months with the Wellington on Low Road and the Victoria(Roundhy Road) closing and the Florence Nightingale blowing up!!!Good new on the Engine though - its a really old pub -at least 180 years old - originally called the 'Locomotive Engine'.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Thu 22 Jan, 2009 12:22 am

A friend in the know reckons that a lot of the problem is that most of the "Pub Co's" that own the premises are massively in debt - we're talking billions of pounds for some of the bigger ones - and in order to service that debt they are tying the leaseholders into buying all their drink from them at prices which means that they simply can't compete with the supermarkets or the likes of Wetherspoons.I didn't know for instance that not only do the terms of the lease mean that you have to buy from them, but that they also tell you what price it is to be sold at over the bar. No wonder so many pubs are failing.Then there is the issue of the actual lease, with many pubs re-opening on short term leases of 6 months or so. A cynic might think that is just long enough to see if trade can be built up before it's time to renegotiate whats paid....

jas · Post by **jas** » Thu 22 Jan, 2009 3:00 pm

[quotenick="wayniac"][quotenick="Ollie"] raveydavey wrote: wiggy wrote: Trojan wrote: drapesy wrote: The Former Victoria (latterly the'Trotters') on York road- now a pet shop. Quite a good name for a pub "The Fish and Reptiles" a better name for that hole would of been'the bulletts and blades'. ... Next door to Danny Greens was a wallpaper shop and above was my tooth saving dentist after I fled the dental school, Melvyn Sumroy. He was a great dentist. Melvyn Sumroy is my dad ... now retired. Not only a great dentist, but also a great dad! He will be pleased to read this.

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 22 Jan, 2009 6:57 pm

Have you noticed how many views this thread has had? Only the Skulls comes close at a rlatively meagre 184, 000.Does the popularity of it say something about us