Leeds lost pubs

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Mon 18 Jun, 2007 11:26 pm

Wow!I wonder how many people knew this was here??For some strange reason it looks like something's been fastened over the 'iv'(that looks almost like iii) at some stage. wonder why?

FarnleyBloke · Post by **FarnleyBloke** » Tue 19 Jun, 2007 11:26 am

Drapesy i noticed in last weeks YEP whilst browsing through the planning applications (I know, but i like to know whats going on) there has been an application to extend the pub so not sure if it just having a refurb and will reopen again soon.Also can you and your camera get up to Pudsey? The weasel and boars head on Roker lane are both currently boarded up.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Tue 19 Jun, 2007 8:05 pm

FarnleyBloke wrote: Drapesy i noticed in last weeks YEP whilst browsing through the planning applications (I know, but i like to know whats going on) there has been an application to extend the pub so not sure if it just having a refurb and will reopen again soon.Also can you and your camera get up to Pudsey? The weasel and boars head on Roker lane are both currently boarded up. That would be good - let's hope they dont spoil it.I'll keep my eyes open next time I'm in Pudsey. I remember going in a tiny pub near Roker Lane was it the Ivy? I wonder if its still there - I think there was another one further up the hill as well.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Tue 19 Jun, 2007 9:55 pm

On the 'Green Man' thread TabbyCat and Parksider mentioned a pub called the 'Kossuth' I have to admit I'd never heard anything about it before - and what a weird name!!!Anyway Leodis came up with goods yet again - heres the Kossuth in 1959. Apparently it was 4 back-to backs knocked into one - 2 on Rigg Street 2 on Hampton Street.(this is Rigg Street - the front)It also explains the name thus:Louis (Lajos) Kossuth (1802 - 1894) was the governor of Hungary during their fight for independance and is known as the Father of Hungarian Democracy.So now you know!!It does beg the question though -who thought it would be a good idea to name a pub after him!? and why!????

stevief · Post by **stevief** » Tue 19 Jun, 2007 10:31 pm

This'll test you drapesy.I've been looking through a 1975 good beer guide,fortunately most of the entries for Leeds are still surviving but there's one strange inclusion.Jessie Robinsons off-licence273 Beeston Road.Described as a traditional off-licence selling draught beer.Does it stir any memories???

Clankylad · Post by **Clankylad** » Wed 20 Jun, 2007 8:43 am

Another brain teaser - when I was a kid I used to read my dad's old glory years Leeds United programmes which regularly featured an advert for a nightclub called 'Carolines'. It sticks in my mind because the advert used the name as an acronym, which started 'Cool Atmosphere Raving On Late Into Night-time...".Anyone remember where it was (or how the acronym finished!)?

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Wed 20 Jun, 2007 2:48 pm

stevief wrote: This'll test you drapesy.I've been looking through a 1975 good beer guide,fortunately most of the entries for Leeds are still surviving but there's one strange inclusion.Jessie Robinsons off-licence273 Beeston Road.Described as a traditional off-licence selling draught beer.Does it stir any memories??? 273 beeston road is still an off-license (according to lcc's licensing) although 6 years after leaving the area having spent over 20 ther I can't quite place it.Off licenses have changed quite considerably in the last 20 - 30 years. Circa 75 I should think the only beer you would get in cans were party packs. Most came in bottles. From memory and I was only about 11 at the time. Sherry came in a great big barrel which you refilled bottled from ("Tio Pepe"?) and beer would probably be sold the same way. Wine would be virtually non existent as would alcopops with the possible exception of babycham. Perhaps 'arry 'awk and some of the other older posters can confirm this.

munki · Post by **munki** » Wed 20 Jun, 2007 3:02 pm

The Ale Shop on Woodhouse Lane sold beer from barrels until about ten years ago. They would pour it into plastic gallon bottles for you.

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Wed 20 Jun, 2007 4:45 pm

Not a lost pub but maybe a lost window.I don't often pass it but from memory the Wrens (New Briggate) this morning looked like ithas had its outside refurbished since last I passed by.I also noticed quite clearly something that must have been there before but I hadn't taken much notice of. One of the leaded windows on Merrion Street has "smoke room" embedded in it. Will this survive June 30th as it might be taken by some as permission to ignore the law?

TABBYCAT · Post by **TABBYCAT** » Wed 20 Jun, 2007 10:14 pm

Hi all Tyke Bhoy if memory serves, the off licence on Beeston rd you refer to was owned during the seventies by the late Dennis Pedder (a former member of leeds city council if, again, memory serves correctly)He sold hand pulled beer as well as all the usual beverages and I remember on quite a few occasions going in with an empty pop bottle and asking him to "fill 'er up" although the shop still exists the structure was altered both inside and out, and you would not recognise it, as it once looked in the past.