Torre Road Social Club is to become a Pub

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Wed 03 Nov, 2010 4:44 pm

Found this on the latest planning applications whenI was looking for something else.20.10.10Changeof use from a working mens club(sui genens)to form public house.Former Torre Social clubApplicant.Orbis Management,L.McWilliamsPO Box 368HarrogateAnyone heard of these people and what doessui genens mean please ?

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Wed 03 Nov, 2010 4:45 pm

Sorry,its SUI GENERIS.

Chrism · Post by **Chrism** » Wed 03 Nov, 2010 5:43 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generisSee the Town Planning bit.

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Wed 03 Nov, 2010 6:28 pm

Il give it a week lol.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 03 Nov, 2010 6:46 pm

Chrism wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generisSee the Town Planning bit. I've just looked that link up and I'm totally baffled (that's easily done I admit).

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Thu 04 Nov, 2010 12:37 am

Brandy wrote: Il give it a week lol. Any advance (or revised downward bid) on a week?.AND - what might it be called ?

anthonydna · Post by **anthonydna** » Thu 04 Nov, 2010 12:40 am

The Optimists Arms ?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Thu 04 Nov, 2010 12:51 pm

Tory Harms (Torre Arms). Apologies for apparently bringing politics into the forum as the name is only meant as a joke. I wonder how the name Torre for the area came about?Though I did not live particularly close to the area, as a child in the late 1940s to early 1950s I used to sometimes play around there. Sneaking into the tram depot was great fun. I can still mentally smell the gorgeous aroma of bread and other things being baked at the nearby Stokes & Dalton. I think there used to be a pub that may have become (or was) the social club but I never went into that.

barneyrubble · Post by **barneyrubble** » Thu 04 Nov, 2010 2:12 pm

Leodian wrote: Tory Harms (Torre Arms). Apologies for apparently bringing politics into the forum as the name is only meant as a joke. I wonder how the name Torre for the area came about?Though I did not live particularly close to the area, as a child in the late 1940s to early 1950s I used to sometimes play around there. Sneaking into the tram depot was great fun. I can still mentally smell the gorgeous aroma of bread and other things being baked at the nearby Stokes & Dalton. I think there used to be a pub that may have become (or was) the social club but I never went into that. You will be thinking of The "New Eagle" a John Smiths pub of some repute, which was next door to the Torre Club. The club started life as a bus mans club in a Nissan hut.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Thu 04 Nov, 2010 2:21 pm

Thanks barneyrubble. The name 'New Eagle' does sound familiar.