Leeds lost pubs

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Mon 26 Dec, 2011 8:45 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Jogon wrote: Did anyone snap 'The Ostlers' between Turks Head Yard and back of M&S? Gone now with the Trinity Mall thing I think.Or did I dream it. You didn't dream it Jogon - it was there and I've been in it many a time in my "City centre" days. I used to be a regular at the Ostlers too. It closed for a time while it was refitted into the 'bomb shelter' look it had from around 1973 or so. Anyone confirm when it was redone?

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Mon 26 Dec, 2011 9:08 pm

BlakeyThanks - beggining to think I had early onset there, no-one had heard of it. I used to enjoy it circa 76 to 80summat?Oh happy days. Saturday job at 'a well known department store on the headrow' (that wasn't as posh as Schofields), then kick off in the City Varieties Bar (what was that called), then by gravity down alley pubs of Briggate & the Ostlers.Bus home.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Mon 26 Dec, 2011 11:19 pm

Jogon wrote: BlakeyThanks - beggining to think I had early onset there, no-one had heard of it. I used to enjoy it circa 76 to 80summat?City Varieties Bar (what was that called), then by gravity down alley pubs of Briggate & the Ostlers.Bus home. I believe the pub next to The Varieties was called the Swan in those days. In connection with the recently completed superb refurbishment of the theatre it is now part of the complex and is excellent.

iansmithofotley · Post by **iansmithofotley** » Tue 27 Dec, 2011 12:07 am

BLAKEY wrote: Jogon wrote: BlakeyThanks - beggining to think I had early onset there, no-one had heard of it. I used to enjoy it circa 76 to 80summat?City Varieties Bar (what was that called), then by gravity down alley pubs of Briggate & the Ostlers.Bus home. I believe the pub next to The Varieties was called the Swan in those days. In connection with the recently completed superb refurbishment of the theatre it is now part of the complex and is excellent. Hi Chris/Jogon,In the 1970's, when Wilf Scott and his wife ran the pub it was known as the Picadilly Bar. It has changed names several times and is now the White Swan again, it would appear:http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 3731109Ian

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Tue 27 Dec, 2011 9:42 am

iansmithofotley wrote: BLAKEY wrote: Jogon wrote: BlakeyThanks - beggining to think I had early onset there, no-one had heard of it. I used to enjoy it circa 76 to 80summat?City Varieties Bar (what was that called), then by gravity down alley pubs of Briggate & the Ostlers.Bus home. I believe the pub next to The Varieties was called the Swan in those days. In connection with the recently completed superb refurbishment of the theatre it is now part of the complex and is excellent. Hi Chris/Jogon,In the 1970's, when Wilf Scott and his wife ran the pub it was known as the Picadilly Bar. It has changed names several times and is now the White Swan again, it would appear:http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 3731109Ian I can remember that the Picadilly bar being known as that from as early as the 1960's as thats what my drinking mates called it in those days.

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Tue 27 Dec, 2011 11:48 am

One long gone watering-hole (that I never managed to visit) was Polly's Bar. By chance I saw the obituary of its owner in the Yorkshire Post some years ago. He was a Polish immigrant named Polowny who loved being called by his diminutive.ISTR the bar was advertised by a flashing neon sign somewhere near the old Leeds, Skyrack & Morley branch in Commercial Street, up near the Park Row end. But I add the disclaimer that my memory of location isn't too clear.It also reminds me that there was an oyster bar somewhere near Boar Lane, probably bottom of Basinghall Street. Does anyone else remember it? I stuck my head round its door when I was about 15, but lacked the courage (and probably funds) to go in. OK, it wasn't a pub, but probably licensed to sell drink to accompany the shellfish.(My apols if Polly's has been mentioned before, but 90-odd pages is a long trawl).

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Tue 27 Dec, 2011 11:53 am

Wasn't it Powolny rather than Polowny?

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Tue 27 Dec, 2011 12:12 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: Wasn't it Powolny rather than Polowny? By gum, Geordie-exile, you've spotted my "deliberate" mistake! I was trying so hard to spell it so it didn't look like "Polony", or should that be "Poloni", that stuff in red sausage skin.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Tue 27 Dec, 2011 1:45 pm

IanOtleyThat's it - the Picadilly Bar !I cannot trawl through all of this post but another I remember was Brahms & Lizt on down East Parade what is now Zurich building.The Hoffbrauhaus at Merrion Centre too.

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 27 Dec, 2011 1:58 pm

Jogon wrote: IanOtleyThat's it - the Picadilly Bar !I cannot trawl through all of this post but another I remember was Brahms & Lizt on down East Parade what is now Zurich building.The Hoffbrauhaus at Merrion Centre too. they are there