Mystery Ginnel in Bank

[liits]

drapesy wrote: Super stuff this - well done allThe Smith's Arms certainly survived into the 80's = I remember going in c 1987, if memory serves me right I had sort of convinced myself that it did last at least that long, thanks for corroborating it. Does anybody remember the Tetley Pub Hunt and the Tetley Pub Enquirer [1982 &83, buy a pint in twenty different pubs, get you card stamped in each and get a free pint and a T shirt at the end]? It was this that got me into the Smith’s , Woodpecker, Whip and Mucky Duck, not places I would normally go!

[The Parksider]

liits wrote: drapesy wrote: Super stuff this - well done allThe Smith's Arms certainly survived into the 80's = I remember going in c 1987, if memory serves me right I had sort of convinced myself that it did last at least that long, thanks for corroborating it. Does anybody remember the Tetley Pub Hunt As I worked there and a mate was in Marketing I remember it well.Didn't you just have to buy a half (so the ladies could join in) I dunno.The Smiths was a grand tiled building IIRC and was an old Ind coope pub with that emblazoned across the top of the frontage. It may be the scarboro taps also still has that "emblazoned".Hey Liits - whilst we automatically think that the number of pubs is dropping like a stone as they close and are knocked down, there must be pubs that closed years ago but still remain as a building??I remember walking up from the bus station along where the front of the meat market was (New York St) looking up and there was a sign - Westminster Arms.Do you know of any old pubs - perhaps pre-1960 that are still intact as building for other uses??The one up Buslingthorpe lane also come to mind (have I got that right - from the thread the other month?)

[Si]

Here's the Silk Mill from Liits Leodis link. I thought I'd record it on here, as IMHO, it's an interesting looking building.

[Si]

The Parksider wrote: Hey Liits - whilst we automatically think that the number of pubs is dropping like a stone as they close and are knocked down, there must be pubs that closed years ago but still remain as a building??I remember walking up from the bus station along where the front of the meat market was (New York St) looking up and there was a sign - Westminster Arms.Do you know of any old pubs - perhaps pre-1960 that are still intact as building for other uses??The one up Buslingthorpe lane also come to mind (have I got that right - from the thread the other month?) There must be dozens, Parksider. I can think of several in Otley alone - Queens (shops), New Inn (Superdrug), Half Moon (shop), Leeds House (cafe), Royal Oak (solicitors), etc.

[Chrism]

liits wrote: drapesy wrote: Super stuff this - well done allThe Smith's Arms certainly survived into the 80's = I remember going in c 1987, if memory serves me right I had sort of convinced myself that it did last at least that long, thanks for corroborating it. Does anybody remember the Tetley Pub Hunt and the Tetley Pub Enquirer [1982 &83, buy a pint in twenty different pubs, get you card stamped in each and get a free pint and a T shirt at the end]? It was this that got me into the Smith’s , Woodpecker, Whip and Mucky Duck, not places I would normally go!

[Chrism]

Si wrote: The Parksider wrote: Hey Liits - whilst we automatically think that the number of pubs is dropping like a stone as they close and are knocked down, there must be pubs that closed years ago but still remain as a building??I remember walking up from the bus station along where the front of the meat market was (New York St) looking up and there was a sign - Westminster Arms.Do you know of any old pubs - perhaps pre-1960 that are still intact as building for other uses??The one up Buslingthorpe lane also come to mind (have I got that right - from the thread the other month?) There must be dozens, Parksider. I can think of several in Otley alone - Queens (shops), New Inn (Superdrug), Half Moon (shop), Leeds House (cafe), Royal Oak (solicitors), etc. The Little Park, in Hyde Park, is now apartments. The Precinct is Superdrug(?), The Robin Hood/The Duchess is Hugo Boss, The Nags Head is a bookies... ... ... this deserves a thread of it's own.    

[Cardiarms]

The King Edward on King Edward Street is now a Halifax.Fforde Green = SupermarketDuchess/Robin Hood = shop (wasn't there another one next door Pack horse?)That McDonalds up on Easterly Road.The Chained Bull = flats?

[tyke bhoy]

Cardiarms wrote: The King Edward on King Edward Street is now a Halifax.Fforde Green = SupermarketDuchess/Robin Hood = shop (wasn't there another one next door Pack horse?)That McDonalds up on Easterly Road.The Chained Bull = flats? The Chained Bull was demolished some of it may have been built on but it is mainly car park.A recent pub that has succumbed is the Rose and Crown which is now Lofthouse mini mart including a cafe

[liits]

Chrism wrote: liits wrote: drapesy wrote: Super stuff this - well done allThe Smith's Arms certainly survived into the 80's = I remember going in c 1987, if memory serves me right I had sort of convinced myself that it did last at least that long, thanks for corroborating it. Does anybody remember the Tetley Pub Hunt and the Tetley Pub Enquirer [1982 &83, buy a pint in twenty different pubs, get you card stamped in each and get a free pint and a T shirt at the end]? It was this that got me into the Smith’s , Woodpecker, Whip and Mucky Duck, not places I would normally go! By God! I thought I could get some wear out of clothes but 26 years out of a freebie T shirt, it must be a record!I remember, probably wrongly, that the Pub Hunt T shirt was white and that the Pub Enquiry shits were a cram / magnolia colour with a picture of a magnifying glass on it.

[tyke bhoy]

How did Liits' typo get passed the censors and I am not talking about cram