Pubs closing NOW- in our time.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Wed 28 Mar, 2012 8:50 pm

Boards have gone up around the Queen on Burley Road, soon to be a mini Tesco's I believe.Work is going on at the Cask and Brewer/Rag and Louse/Oddfellows in Yeadon, whether it will remain as a pub I dont know.

HelenG · Post by **HelenG** » Wed 28 Mar, 2012 9:29 pm

Think the Rag and Louse is going to be two houses.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 28 Mar, 2012 10:40 pm

Hope this hasn't been on before - apologies if it has - but to my surprise the Mulberry on Hunslet Road is boarded up and to let. In recent times it has always looked, from outside at least, to be doing OK.The Punch Clock is also closed and boarded up - Hunslet ain't what it used to be !!

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Wed 28 Mar, 2012 10:51 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Hope this hasn't been on before - apologies if it has - but to my surprise the Mulberry on Hunslet Road is boarded up and to let. In recent times it has always looked, from outside at least, to be doing OK.The Punch Clock is also closed and boarded up - Hunslet ain't what it used to be !! It sure isn't Blakey.....guess the only boozer thereabouts still going will be the crooked billet ??????? (at least on main road).

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 28 Mar, 2012 11:10 pm

somme1916 wrote: Hunslet ain't what it used to be !! It sure isn't Blakey.....guess the only boozer thereabouts still going will be the crooked billet ??????? (at least on main road). I also remember, many years ago now, the Red Lion being demolished at incredible speed - that was unbelievable !!Incidentally, deviating just briefly, My Dad fought on the Somme in WW1 and was wounded as far as I can ascertain at Serre when the Leeds Pals were decimated to some tune.

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Wed 28 Mar, 2012 11:22 pm

BLAKEY wrote: somme1916 wrote: Hunslet ain't what it used to be !! It sure isn't Blakey.....guess the only boozer thereabouts still going will be the crooked billet ??????? (at least on main road). I also remember, many years ago now, the Red Lion being demolished at incredible speed - that was unbelievable !!Incidentally, deviating just briefly, My Dad fought on the Somme in WW1 and was wounded as far as I can ascertain at Serre when the Leeds Pals were decimated to some tune. The Red Lion was one of my favourite pubs in Leeds.I started going in when landlord was Laurie Graham(before he went to the (garden) gate and subsequently the THT (town hall tavern) from where he retired.After he left the Lion,it was run by Alfie Barron who I believe was the last man behind the wickets prior to its untimely demise to make way for the widening of Hunslet Rd.Yes,the Somme story is a never ending one,being myself fascinated by this and similar campaigns in WW1.

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Wed 28 Mar, 2012 11:41 pm

The writing's on the wall folks..........it's only a matter of time before all that will be left are a sprinkling of superpubs in the suburbs with slightly more in the town/city centres.The speed of demise of the typical pub has staggered me,taking just a few short years.An industry(if you like) that took centuries to build up.To my mind,it all sped up once the ties between brewery and pub chain was lost enabling a small number of greedy entrepreneurial chains to emerge whose sole interest was to make quick bucks.This punished managers,tenants in particular,who found their rents,beer prices become extortionate.It was a standing joke about buying into a pub being the kiss of death.Sad,but true.Their properties were bland,poorly maintained, run by staff without the necessary motivation due to their property landlords impossible impositions.These same chains,themselves found life tough as their financial revenues became squeezed,mostly due to their unreasonable practises in the industry.Only those,financially stronger institutions,who diversified into gastropubs,plastic restaurant type lookalikes and other ideas, survive.So,it all goes full circle.....the ordinary pint lover inevitably losing out to corporate greed.Tetley's was a both local and national institution..........chances are in 10 years,it will be no more than a memory.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Wed 28 Mar, 2012 11:46 pm

Part of the problem is that the pub management co's used their 'property portfolio' as a vehicle for investing/borrowing etc and they've been caught out by the credit crunch. If the pub can't pay the mortgage the management co has on it, it's toast.

Si · Post by Si » Thu 29 Mar, 2012 9:40 am

Cardiarms wrote: Part of the problem is that the pub management co's used their 'property portfolio' as a vehicle for investing/borrowing etc and they've been caught out by the credit crunch. If the pub can't pay the mortgage the management co has on it, it's toast. Or if it's a gastropub, melba toast.

yorkiesknob · Post by **yorkiesknob** » Thu 05 Apr, 2012 10:55 am

Miggy arms meets its fate.http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... -1-4417614