Leeds lost pubs

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Mon 10 Aug, 2009 6:31 am

drapesy wrote: stutterdog wrote: What a shame ! I'd like to have seen that! Having recently retired and having a bit more time to go into Leeds with my wife.We went down to Briggate a few weeks ago and found a pub called the Angel up one of the alley's of which there are a few .I was a constant visitor in my late teens to most of the pubs in this area i.e The Ship, The Piccadilly Bar but I can never remember a pub called the Angel in this particular place. I can remember another pub at the bottom end of Briggate called the Angel but it was frequented by the non hetro-sexuels in Leeds around 1958 to early 60's and possibly beyond, but it closed ,I know not when.Can any one remember this pub? The answer to your first question is in the description of this leodis pic. it has been on secret leeds but I can't remember exactly where!!http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 11854189In answer to second part - are you thinking of the "Mitre", perhaps?? Thanks Drapesy, you are correct! It was the Mitre,not the Angel.My memory is terrible. I can remember walking in to this place about 7pm one Sat. night about 1960 with a few lads .There was a big fat fellow lounged on one of the seats. Must have been the landlord. We walked in and he promptly pointed to the door,so we turned round and walked back out!I didn't want to go in anyway,I think we only did it as a dare!

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Mon 10 Aug, 2009 6:32 am

drapesy wrote: stutterdog wrote: What a shame ! I'd like to have seen that! Having recently retired and having a bit more time to go into Leeds with my wife.We went down to Briggate a few weeks ago and found a pub called the Angel up one of the alley's of which there are a few .I was a constant visitor in my late teens to most of the pubs in this area i.e The Ship, The Piccadilly Bar but I can never remember a pub called the Angel in this particular place. I can remember another pub at the bottom end of Briggate called the Angel but it was frequented by the non hetro-sexuels in Leeds around 1958 to early 60's and possibly beyond, but it closed ,I know not when.Can any one remember this pub? The answer to your first question is in the description of this leodis pic. it has been on secret leeds but I can't remember exactly where!!http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 11854189In answer to second part - are you thinking of the "Mitre", perhaps?? Thanks Drapesy, you are correct! It was the Mitre,not the Angel.My memory is terrible. I can remember walking in to this place about 7pm one Sat. night about 1960 with a few lads .There was a big fat fellow lounged on one of the seats. Must have been the landlord. We walked in and he promptly pointed to the door,so we turned round and walked back out!I didn't want to go in anyway,I think we only did it as a dare!

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Mon 10 Aug, 2009 9:45 am

Chrism wrote: stutterdog wrote: The Parksider wrote: uncle mick wrote: Cardiarms wrote: http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... AY=FULLThe White Bear - where was it? 1872 Leeds Directory White Bear Inn J.L. Smith George and Dragon Yard Briggate Cracked it Well done,you win a ceegar..... Great research there! Is the yard or the building still there? 7th July 1956. Elevated view looking south down Trinity Street. On the left are numbers 29 to 30, N.G. Bailey & Co. Ltd., electrical engineers; numbers 26 to 27, Blakeys Wallpapers; then George And Dragon Yard; number 34, J. Graham (Leeds) Ltd., home furnishers; numbers 35 to 36, Baker's Household Stores. On the right a sign for Johnson's Engravers (Leeds) Ltd (number 12) can be seen. The street is crowded with shoppers. NG Bailey are still going today, I believe.Blakeys Wallpapers - I though he was On The Buses..?

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Mon 10 Aug, 2009 10:21 am

stutterdog wrote: drapesy wrote: stutterdog wrote: What a shame ! I'd like to have seen that! Having recently retired and having a bit more time to go into Leeds with my wife.We went down to Briggate a few weeks ago and found a pub called the Angel up one of the alley's of which there are a few .I was a constant visitor in my late teens to most of the pubs in this area i.e The Ship, The Piccadilly Bar but I can never remember a pub called the Angel in this particular place. I can remember another pub at the bottom end of Briggate called the Angel but it was frequented by the non hetro-sexuels in Leeds around 1958 to early 60's and possibly beyond, but it closed ,I know not when.Can any one remember this pub? The answer to your first question is in the description of this leodis pic. it has been on secret leeds but I can't remember exactly where!!http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 11854189In answer to second part - are you thinking of the "Mitre", perhaps?? Thanks Drapesy, you are correct! It was the Mitre,not the Angel.My memory is terrible. I can remember walking in to this place about 7pm one Sat. night about 1960 with a few lads .There was a big fat fellow lounged on one of the seats. Must have been the landlord. We walked in and he promptly pointed to the door,so we turned round and walked back out!I didn't want to go in anyway,I think we only did it as a dare! I believe The Mitre was just off Briggate on Commercial Street.It stood where Thorntons chocolate cabin is or was

Aeldfrith · Post by **Aeldfrith** » Mon 10 Aug, 2009 10:33 am

zip55 wrote: Just been reading an old thread on pubs of the 70's ... can anyone tell me what year the Red Bear on Skinners Lane shut up shop ..? Don't know exactly, but I think it was around 1973-4. It stood empty for years and years (someone has told me it was listed, but I'm not so sure) before it was finally demolished recently. I remember going past it after it had closed and it had the old "brown" Tetley signs on it.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Mon 10 Aug, 2009 10:46 am

The Angel in Briggate was run, at the end of the 1800s, by the father and son Ledgards - young Samuel was soon to move to The Nelson in Armley, and the famous transport and brewing and quarrying and catering empire was born, to survive until 14th October 1967. Apparently in the late 1800s/early 1900s The Angel was quite a notorious "rough hole" where, apart from ale and food, ladies could rent upstairs rooms where they could keep their friends/clients out of the cold and rain - very kind and cosy

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Mon 10 Aug, 2009 11:09 am

BLAKEY wrote: The Angel in Briggate was run, at the end of the 1800s, by the father and son Ledgards - young Samuel was soon to move to The Nelson in Armley, and the famous transport and brewing and quarrying and catering empire was born, to survive until 14th October 1967. Apparently in the late 1800s/early 1900s The Angel was quite a notorious "rough hole" where, apart from ale and food, ladies could rent upstairs rooms where they could keep their friends/clients out of the cold and rain - very kind and cosy That is very interesting. Sounds like a wild west saloon!

Bert · Post by **Bert** » Mon 10 Aug, 2009 3:17 pm

Back as a kid in Crossgates in the 1950s I remember often being puzzled by mysterious references to "The Mitre" by grown-ups, usually along the lines of "He'd go down well at The Mitre". Only years later did I discover what they had meant.

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Mon 10 Aug, 2009 5:28 pm

Bert wrote: Back as a kid in Crossgates in the 1950s I remember often being puzzled by mysterious references to "The Mitre" by grown-ups, usually along the lines of "He'd go down well at The Mitre". Only years later did I discover what they had meant. I wonder what they did mean Bert? Are you going to expand on that?

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Mon 10 Aug, 2009 8:00 pm

uncle mick wrote: stutterdog wrote: drapesy wrote: stutterdog wrote: What a shame ! I'd like to have seen that! Having recently retired and having a bit more time to go into Leeds with my wife.We went down to Briggate a few weeks ago and found a pub called the Angel up one of the alley's of which there are a few .I was a constant visitor in my late teens to most of the pubs in this area i.e The Ship, The Piccadilly Bar but I can never remember a pub called the Angel in this particular place. I can remember another pub at the bottom end of Briggate called the Angel but it was frequented by the non hetro-sexuels in Leeds around 1958 to early 60's and possibly beyond, but it closed ,I know not when.Can any one remember this pub? The answer to your first question is in the description of this leodis pic. it has been on secret leeds but I can't remember exactly where!!http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 11854189In answer to second part - are you thinking of the "Mitre", perhaps?? Thanks Drapesy, you are correct! It was the Mitre,not the Angel.My memory is terrible. I can remember walking in to this place about 7pm one Sat. night about 1960 with a few lads .There was a big fat fellow lounged on one of the seats. Must have been the landlord. We walked in and he promptly pointed to the door,so we turned round and walked back out!I didn't want to go in anyway,I think we only did it as a dare! I believe The Mitre was just off Briggate on Commercial Street.It stood where Thorntons chocolate cabin is or was Ther's apic I took of the Mitre a couple of years ago on page 4 of this thread- about half way down