The Roscoe is dead-long live the roscoe

[Hats Off]

wiggy wrote: LS1 wrote: You can see the building marked PHH in the top right. Dount it was the roscoe as it is on the corner and I think the Roscoe was in a terrace. I'll ask my grandparents tonight, they are in their 90's so will remember I hope! hey ls1,where can one precure a copy of that map? The map is from The Godfrey Edition collection. They can be purchased at places such as Waterstones or even the Leeds Civic Trust shop just by the Parish church. Here is the web address where you can also buy them direct :http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/leeds.htm

[wiggy]

Hats Off wrote: wiggy wrote: LS1 wrote: You can see the building marked PHH in the top right. Dount it was the roscoe as it is on the corner and I think the Roscoe was in a terrace. I'll ask my grandparents tonight, they are in their 90's so will remember I hope! hey ls1,where can one precure a copy of that map? The map is from The Godfrey Edition collection. They can be purchased at places such as Waterstones or even the Leeds Civic Trust shop just by the Parish church. Here is the web address where you can also buy them direct :http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/leeds.htm thank you very much hats off,i'll have a couple of them.do the group,'the solicitors' still play at the roscoe??

[drapesy]

Further to my Pic of the Queen's above - here's an even better one from Leodis - taken in 1961

[Phill_d]

Saturday night done & I've just ingraciated myself to the man himself Andy Gibney in the Roscoe & thanks to Tony who mailed me during the week we are now on a mission to track down the missing plaque. I must say the power of the internet is awesome as Andy G had heard about my write up & interest of his model making skills & thanked me most profusely for my interest & article written about him. Many tales were told of the old Roscoe & as soon as we find the old plaque then pictures & old stories will be told in this thread! All will be revealed soon!

[Tony]

Did he show you his latest work?

[Phill_d]

No he didn't Tony. We were having a smoke under the new masterpiece Noels had erected. Andy was umistakeble by the description i got! Very friendly chap!

[Tony]

You were in fact sat under his latest work!Noel's Ark it's been dubbed. I've watched Andy putting it together all week, he's not just a dab hand at small things.

[Phill_d]

Oh right. I didn't know he'd done that! It's a bigger scale than his usuall stuff. I like the name tag too! It's gonna have sides on Although if a smokers shelter is too enclosed you can't smoke in it no more to stop us getting each others 3, 4 & 5th hand smoke! Bring back common sense i say )

[LS1]

Hats Off wrote: wiggy wrote: LS1 wrote: You can see the building marked PHH in the top right. Dount it was the roscoe as it is on the corner and I think the Roscoe was in a terrace. I'll ask my grandparents tonight, they are in their 90's so will remember I hope! hey ls1,where can one precure a copy of that map? The map is from The Godfrey Edition collection. They can be purchased at places such as Waterstones or even the Leeds Civic Trust shop just by the Parish church. Here is the web address where you can also buy them direct :http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/leeds.htm Well, I had a copy of a map that I copied from the library so the pedant in me says this is not strictly true, but yeah I keep a copy of the Godfrey maps at work (such a loser!) so what Hats Off said...Phil, the plaque was there a short while ago. I definately saw it there as I was walking into town. Is it covered by the grass/ trees? Maybe it might be visible in a couple of months when autumn sets in.

[Phill_d]

I'll deffo have another look. Good job i can look inconspicous poking around in the middle of a busy roundabout! Some little tricks we've learned from exploration jaunts