Leeds lost pubs

liits · Post by **liits** » Thu 06 Oct, 2011 9:29 pm

The Seacroft Hotel [opened on 5th September 1956] was a Davenports pub. Some time in the very early 80's, after a majo refub and a take-over by Mansfield's, it reopened as the Lion & Lamb. The original Lion & Lamb building still being in existance next door. The building has now gone. Situated at the juntion of York Road [the old bit], York Road & the [new bit of] Barwick Road the picture would have been taken from outside what is now Aldi.

jdbythesea · Post by **jdbythesea** » Thu 06 Oct, 2011 9:37 pm

I can vaguely remember the Davenports sign outside the pub. Didn't they used to deliver ale house to house like a milkman from the Seacroft/Lion and Lamb?

ceejaylufc · Post by **ceejaylufc** » Thu 06 Oct, 2011 9:37 pm

Sorry Phil you're wrong about the Gate, it's on Kentmere Avenue, not the Approach and yep, the Seacroft was where the Lion and Lamb was. There used to be a separate entrance where the offy part was where I used to get pop and those little packets of cheese and crackers with the pickled onion in after brownies at Seacroft Methodist church just up the road - god memories !!!!!definitely getting old now remembering all this lol

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 06 Oct, 2011 9:58 pm

raveydavey wrote: Phill_dvsn wrote: The Fairway is a different style Ravey, you can see it herehttp://tinyurl.com/5ummsueIt has similiarities, but it's noticeably different. I was born & bred in Seacroft and I never heard of the Seacroft Hotel before. The Fellmonger was my local in the early 80's too. The pub looks familiar, but I can't place it, unless it's the Gate on Kentmere Approach, I'll have to check that out now No you're right - it's not the Felly. Looking on Streetview, it's definitely not The Gate either.However, a bit of digging and I think I've got it - it's the "new" Lion and Lamb that stood on the junction of York Road and Barwick Road, where the Aldi now stands. The school at the rear must be Parklands.So, a different pub, but again I've never heard of it referred to as The Seacroft.So it is a "lot pub" after all!Recent pic here: http://www.queensview.co.uk/images/lion&.JPG Yes! Of course it is. Funny how you know a picture in your mind, get one idea and can't see round the corner. It was built as the new Lion & Lamb originally wasn't it on the site of the old Pak Farm once thrun by the Townend family, at the junction of the old village road where Yoek Road suddenly bedomes Baewick Road before the roundabout.Those trees are so characteristic too - even though I pass there every day - it still passed me by.

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Thu 06 Oct, 2011 10:02 pm

Yep, the Seacroft was definitely on (old) York Road just after the turn off from the outer ring road. It used to be fairly popular with the bikers in its last years before the name change, when we weren't in the Travellers at Crossgates. Many pubs banned bikers outright back in the 70s and 80s, and of those that didn't, very few pubs actually welcomed them - if you walked up to the bar in a leather jacket, you usually got some kind of verbal warning before you were allowed a drink.I think I remember that subsequent to the name change, (maybe not immdiately after, probably more towards its closure) it was run by a single lady who gained quite some publicity for introducing a 'hands-on' zero-tolerance policy towards drugs, anti-social behaviour, any sort of criminal activity in fact. She stayed there for several years despite a constant campaign of vandalism, arson attacks and threats against her intended to drive her out. I'm sure someone on here with know-how on searching the YEP archives will be able to find something about that.

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Fri 07 Oct, 2011 1:47 am

While we're in this area, was there another pub further up North Parkway from the Felly on the same side of the road but before you hit Seacroft Centre? I recall having a few pints near there with my brother in 1995 (and a huge slab of concrete flew in through the window and landed next to the pool table where we were playing).

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Fri 07 Oct, 2011 8:42 am

zip55 wrote: While we're in this area, was there another pub further up North Parkway from the Felly on the same side of the road but before you hit Seacroft Centre? I recall having a few pints near there with my brother in 1995 (and a huge slab of concrete flew in through the window and landed next to the pool table where we were playing). That was The Pathfinder, a Tetleys pub, flattened along with the rest of Seacroft Centre to make way for the Tesco Extra. I'm sure it's mentioned previously on this thread if you've the time to hunt through the previous 95 pages... Funnily enough, the property developers who own the current Tesco site put in planning permission for a new pub, roughly where the Pathfinder once stood a few years after the Tesco was built, but the plans were rejected.

Bracken · Post by **Bracken** » Fri 07 Oct, 2011 8:57 am

The Bay Horse in Town Street Farsley appears to have closed.It was in darkness when i drove past at 2020 last night.

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Fri 07 Oct, 2011 4:30 pm

liits wrote: The Seacroft Hotel [opened on 5th September 1956] was a Davenports pub. Some time in the very early 80's, after a majo refub and a take-over by Mansfield's, it reopened as the Lion & Lamb. I had a niggling thought that The Seacroft used to have a fair size concert/function room. I've dug out a list of gigs I went to in those days (I kept a record of all of them, however insignificant). I can therefore confirm that the pub was still known as the Seacroft Hotel when I was there to see that famous band 'Blossom at the Reins'. I can't make out the exact date on my document due to fading, but I can say with certainty that it was between March and July 1982.

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Fri 07 Oct, 2011 5:17 pm

Bracken wrote: The Bay Horse in Town Street Farsley appears to have closed.It was in darkness when i drove past at 2020 last night. Beware false prophets! Or in this case potential false signs/indications. The Vine and the 3legs (Headrow) are often closed when I pass on foot at around 10.00pm most Wednesday nights. I then get on a bus in the bus station and the Mulberry on Hunslet Low Road (in front of CostCo) is closed as often as its open.I suspect when it gets down to one or two punters the Landlord/Manager encourages those punters to leave and then shuts up early. Having said that more than 2hours 40 before closing time is a bit early to decide you won't get enough trade for the rest of the night to merit staying open.