The Florence

kierentc · Post by **kierentc** » Fri 25 Apr, 2008 12:14 am

magic wrote: Looks like it will end up another over priced car park! hhhhhmmmm. yes. how convenient...<strokes chin and adopts a cynical expression>

magic · Post by **magic** » Fri 25 Apr, 2008 12:20 am

kierentc wrote: magic wrote: Looks like it will end up another over priced car park! hhhhhmmmm. yes. how convenient...<strokes chin and adopts a cynical expression> Maybe the Fountain Head next! Then the Shakespeare flats, what a gold mine of a car park that would be.

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Fri 25 Apr, 2008 9:40 pm

my dad lived with his grandparents,just round the back of the cemetary tavern on barrister place..his gran would often send him with u jug to it filled with bitter.he was only between 5 and 12...how times have changed,i think my gran would of got life if she had sent him in todays p.c world.

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 12:11 pm

magic wrote: kierentc wrote: magic wrote: Looks like it will end up another over priced car park! hhhhhmmmm. yes. how convenient...<strokes chin and adopts a cynical expression> Maybe the Fountain Head next! Then the Shakespeare flats, what a gold mine of a car park that would be. the fountain heads windows were bloen in-Seamus is not too pleased

skippy · Post by **skippy** » Sat 26 Apr, 2008 12:28 pm

hi everyone had to have my say obout the pub blast,i used to live in roxby close, which wasn't far from the florence,just over beckett st, i remember it being the cemetery tavern,my mum used to be a early morning cleaner in the 6o's i'm pleased that no one lost there life in the blast, it was a friendly meeting place in it's day

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 27 Apr, 2008 9:50 pm

The rubble- pile that is all that is now left of the Florence Nightingale

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 27 Apr, 2008 9:53 pm

Another shot with the 'Fountain Head' in the distance

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 27 Apr, 2008 9:57 pm

Once the street on the North Side of the pub was called Recorder Street - it was all demolished many years ago but the sign remained on the pub wall - here it is..

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 27 Apr, 2008 10:00 pm

Stray, pathetic reminders - a broken bar-stool and a beer crate.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 27 Apr, 2008 10:08 pm

The Florence Nightingale [formerly the Cemetery Tavern], 132 Beckett Street , Leeds. Destroyed by gas explosion 22/4/2008.R.I.P.