Pubs worth celebrating

[Rodley_Girl]

Another classic - The Adelphi!!!

[Scandy Bramley]

Rodley_Girl wrote: Another classic - The Adelphi!!! If you scroll back, I'm sure the Adelphi has been mentioned? But WELCOME to the forum anyroad, RG!

[Scandy Bramley]

FFS!!!

[simonm]

Chill man!!!! I suppose you didn't manage to get a hold of some calming baccy when you were last over?

[arry_awk]

eeeeh, Scandylad!tha duz tek on so! I'll hide the lunatic broth,riggwelternext time ure home! N'Mek ya sup JS Smooth instead!A fate wuss than Beard's Sussex Ale!We knaw it's a bit slapdash but think of all the luvly fowkwe've met on here this past Three months!Cheers!Arrydad.

[wiggy]

drapesy wrote: The wonderful Eagle on North Street - for many years an oasis of real ale in a desert of keg - it belonged to Camra at one stage I believe. Its a very old building - pre victorian. and now stands alone when once it was surrounded by houses and shops.According to Leodis it became a pub in 1832 Originally it was called the Builder's Arms, then the Ordnance Arms, then the Golden Eagle then the Eagle. i had my first lgal pint in here,i think it was about 38p....oh happy happy days!!

[stevief]

drapesy wrote: The Highland- I love this pub - it's TINY inside!!! It used to be even tinier before it went 'open-plan' do you remember drapsey? Also,it took a bit of finding for my first visit.It was completely obscured from Kirkstall Rd.by the old Royal Mail depot.There was the briefest of glimpses available from Burley Rd.if you were on the top deck of a bus looking over the hoardings.This was one of the 'oases' pubs I referred to in another thread.Years ago it was known colloquially as the Highland'Laddie' orsometimes just the 'Laddie' although to the best of my knowledgeits always officially been The Highland.I've looked on leodis for old B&W photos without any success-perhaps they couldn't find it!

[drapesy]

Further to a posting on the new Roscoe thread here's a pic of 'the Pointer' in Sheepscar - not the most ''salubrious" pub in the world perhapsbut a remarkable survivor nonetheless. (there's a "Two Pointers" in Woodlesford, funnily enough)

[cnosni]

drapesy wrote: I have some pics of the Swan but am unable to upload them at the moment due to deficiencies on the site.I've heard this "nicks/necks" thing before and frankly I think its a load of rubbish. An expert on pub names did some research a few years ago and found many pubs throughout the country - going back hundreds of years in some cases - with this name, but no evidence that any had ever been called by the name "Swan with 2 nicks".it seems plausible at first - It might have happened at one pub - but lots of them? and they all changed their name? and none retained the original? No its not on. The author believed that the name comes from heraldry and is a misunderstanding of a drawing of two swans one behind the other. just a little side line on the Swan with two Necks in Woodhouse,it was built on an area of Woodhouse called Swan Green.Sounds nice but it was a bit of a dump in the 19th century (even by the lowly standards of the time!!) as it was a location for shanty housing around an area of an old bit of marshland immediately to the south of the pub.So perhaps the name not only comes from the tradition of "Nicking" the beaks of swans but that it is possible that the Nicking actually took place in the immediate vicinity.

[cnosni]

drapesy wrote: And here's the same shot approx 100 years ago. It was called 'the Cemetery Tavern' at that time Woodhouse cemetery was /is on the sight of the present university.It was one of the first municipal cemeteries in the world.I believe that the actual location of the cemetery is a bit of open grass land in the university grounds