Old Red Lion

[The Parksider]

This pub on Meadow Lane is meant to be very old. I thought Whitelocks was the oldest and maybe the odd other down Briggates yards?Anyone know the age of this.........and which may be our oldest pub.May have been done before in which case someone should know!!!

[Phill_dvsn]

I believe one of the upstairs rooms is supposed to be haunted according to the Keneth Goor Haunted Leeds book. Apparently a ghostly apparition looks out of an upstairs window.I'm only telling what i read, so sceptics please don't shoot the messenger     

[Si]

I can't find any old pics of this pub on Leodis, so this 1999 one will have to do. According to Leodis, it is one of the oldest surviving pubs in Leeds, being late Georgian (1800-1830ish?)Someone has posted saying their parents were the publicans from c1955-c1965. She says it had the longest bar in Leeds, and had a six day license, closing all day Sunday. Whitelock's still wins, being granted it's first license in 1715.Googling "Old Red Lion Leeds" suggests it's now a gay bar.    

[Richard A Thackeray]

It was a 'coaching inn' wasn't it?

[Chrism]

There's a programme on TV soon about pubs called The Red Lion.

[sirjohn]

Si wrote: Googling "Old Red Lion Leeds" suggests it's now a gay bar.     ... not a very nice one though...

[Steve Jones]

those of you who looked up the story in "Haunted leeds "will have realised that ken Goor got his information from yours truly.I have already mentioned this pub on the Haunted Pubs thread.The present pub is actually two pubs knocked into one as what is now the function room on the left as you look at the pub was actually an eentirely seperate pub as shown on earlier maps of Leeds.I have been down into the original cellars as well as into the disused 3rd storey on a ghost hunt.The cellars clearly show it was two buildings but the stonework also looked to me as though it was much older than the pub now above ground so I wondered if it had an earlier pub on the site.The ghost upstairs haunts the end room where the clock is visible on the gable end.A very eerie atmosphere here as well as a large hook in an overhead beam where the barmaid allegedly hung herself from.In the pub itself I personally witnessed along with a room full of people a splash of what appered to be blood hit a womans hand (this was after we had been discussing the ghost earlier).there was nowhere it could come from.She wasn't bledding,did not have a nosebleed and was not drinking any red drink.it looked like blood and stained her hankie when she mopped it off the back of her uninjured hand!A loudspeker was also wrenched off a wall and thrown at someone without anyone being near it apparently.I would love to do a proper ghost vigil here sometime although sam smiths do not like this type of thing(it was a previous licensee who had just been told he was not getting the pub who let the Pagan moot look around).Leeds Pagan Moot used to meet there.It was not strictly a gay pub unlike others in the area being about 60:40 gay/straight.I haven't been in it for about two years now so maybe it is entirely a gay pub now.

[Brandy]

Bloooming hell steve blood squirting on hands,speakers getting ripped from walls and you say you want to do a 'proper' ghost vigil??sounds to me like you witnessed a full blown haunting right there mate lol

[Steve Jones]

The upper corridor was interesting as you could walk in and out of an area that sent chills up the spine.Not just myself but all who went on the walk round during the evening had the same experience.the top floor is derelict and has bedrooms that haven't been used since at least 1940's if not earlier.they had old wallpaper and lino in them.didn't feel anything spooky though.never been allowed up there since that night which was about 10 years ago.

[The Parksider]

Brilliant....Let's have a secret leeds ghost meeting there...........