The Fforde Greene!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 08 Feb, 2010 7:02 pm

I've done my best to highlight that brick structure, it's deffo where that air vent is today.Maybe someone can post the pic here for me, it is only small though.http://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn ... ecretleeds

Post by **chameleon** » Mon 08 Feb, 2010 7:06 pm

Jak wrote: Phill_dvsn wrote: Jak wrote: Yes it was under the car park and you could smell it from a mile away. No wonder it has the air vents in still, I'm presuming it's all intact and still under there then.Jack hammer anyone? I dont thnk iwould want to go down there after all them years. Nahh! would be a piece of urine eh Phill

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 08 Feb, 2010 7:09 pm

chameleon wrote: Jak wrote: Phill_dvsn wrote: Jak wrote: Yes it was under the car park and you could smell it from a mile away. No wonder it has the air vents in still, I'm presuming it's all intact and still under there then.Jack hammer anyone? I dont thnk iwould want to go down there after all them years. Nahh! would be a piece of urine eh Phill LOL

Post by **chameleon** » Mon 08 Feb, 2010 7:15 pm

Hey Phill, thought I remembered seeing something - wiggy's lost loos:wiggyUser Location: essexJoined on: 26-Jun-2007 14:09:49Posted: 1065 posts # Posted on: 25-Aug-2007 08:19:53. Edit | Quote well folk keep threatening,so i shall kick off with mine;the ones on briggate,nr boar lane junction,i never used these,but i remember the railings with their chain and padlock;the ones over the road from the dock green;the ones next to the fforde grene on easterly road;the downstairs toilets in harehills park;the downstairs ones next to the library on harehills lane and the ones in the subway on the east side of the merrion centre......okay that's my number one,anyone got a number two? ( sorry, couldn't help that)

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Mon 08 Feb, 2010 7:17 pm

Nice find Chameleon. I'm just womdering why there still vented? It must mean they simply blocked off the stairways and infilled just the top part of the stairs, all the loos still intact past the wall would you say? I wonder when they closed.

Post by **chameleon** » Mon 08 Feb, 2010 7:32 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: Nice find Chameleon. I'm just womdering why there still vented? It must mean they simply blocked off the stairways and infilled just the top part of the stairs, all the loos still intact past the wall would you say? I wonder when they closed. I've a vague memory of their existence though not of using them but that must be from my youth so probably not more than a couple of years ago

Jak · Post by **Jak** » Mon 08 Feb, 2010 8:13 pm

i remember them being there in the late 60s.

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Tue 09 Feb, 2010 2:26 am

I'm pretty sure Les Dawson's character 'Superflop' was seen coming out of these toilets ... anyone confirm?

wayniac · Post by **wayniac** » Tue 09 Feb, 2010 4:49 am

zip55 wrote: I'm pretty sure Les Dawson's character 'Superflop' was seen coming out of these toilets ... anyone confirm? Yes I'm sure you are correct.I remember that toilet block...I believe the entry was directly off the pavement on the junction at the foot of Easterly Road. All the years I lived in Leeds, don't think I ever went in the Fforde Greene unless I was at the end of a pub crawl and forgot.I remember doing the Tetley T-shirt challenge and we did 20 pubs in a night, splitting the pint's into halves so we only drank 10 pints each.Had three curries on the walk up Roundhay Road. There used to be a curry house opposite about where the Harehills Cinema stood but the Greene was closed as it was after midnight...

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Tue 31 Jul, 2012 4:32 pm

zip55 wrote: I'm pretty sure Les Dawson's character 'Superflop' was seen coming out of these toilets ... anyone confirm? Yes, I think our hero went down as an ordinary toilet cleaner bloke and came out superflop.Here's a good oldie of the Fforde Grene before my time:-" Leeds car no. 221 on reversing stub, Harehills, where Upland Road (just off to the right of the picture) joins Easterley Road; the Clock Cinema is just off the picture. The building with the tall chimney on the left is the Fforde Grene pub and partially obscured by the tram is the Yorkshire Bank, which closed a few years ago. Photographed on 30th November 1952"