What & Where? Birthday Special

kierentc · Post by **kierentc** » Wed 13 Feb, 2008 10:50 pm

looks a bit like red chilli (where i went for a meal tonight :-p)i bet it isn't though. i'm rubbish at these!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 13 Feb, 2008 11:13 pm

I don't know why I am writing this as I think it is totally wrong, but at the moment I'll plump for the griffin hotel?

Post by **cnosni** » Thu 14 Feb, 2008 12:16 am

Im going for the building on the corner of Park Row and south Parade.Even if im wrong,i think its on Park Row judging by the falling gradient to the left.if not then it could be the old queens hotel.

chomic · Post by **chomic** » Thu 14 Feb, 2008 11:31 am

Munki wrote 'Where IS it?' not where was it, does this mean it still stands perhaps?

munki · Post by **munki** » Thu 14 Feb, 2008 1:36 pm

Oh dear, I have actually managed to confuse myself slightly here. & I've underestimated you lot, of course.Was there an old Queen's Hotel? The current building was celebrated its 70th birthday last year. Was there a hotel on the site before?

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Thu 14 Feb, 2008 1:46 pm

Does that mean it has been mentioned? It doesn't look like the old Queens, the entrance was on the front rather than on the corner on the pics I've seen.

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Thu 14 Feb, 2008 2:28 pm

munki wrote: Oh dear, I have actually managed to confuse myself slightly here. & I've underestimated you lot, of course.Was there an old Queen's Hotel? The current building was celebrated its 70th birthday last year. Was there a hotel on the site before? yes there was, there's a lithograph of it in the illustrated history of Leeds. It stood on the present site! Looke a bit like your picture, but there are some major differences!!

simonm · Post by **simonm** » Thu 14 Feb, 2008 2:30 pm

cnosni wrote: Im going for the building on the corner of Park Row and south Parade.Even if im wrong,i think its on Park Row judging by the falling gradient to the left.if not then it could be the old queens hotel. Now Iv'e taken an enlarged look at it I may agree, however, south parade has an incline away from Park row, if I'm not mistaken and on the piccie it looks flat, or is it my eyes?

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Thu 14 Feb, 2008 2:41 pm

The old Queens viewed from Bishopgate in 1935 just before it was replaced. Courtesy of Leodis

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Thu 14 Feb, 2008 2:45 pm

Definatly not something standing on Park Row at the moment.