Its amazing that thread theres pubs on there that i never knew existed, then a tap on the shoulder and me old man starts bangin on how he used to drink in there and once went in there.



Superb!!

rlas discussedrl

that's the one - does anyone know when it disappeared?

this rlolder onerl says 2000.

I remember the fountain thing opening in 2000 but I’ve got the feeling that the garage had been closed for a while before that but I could be wrong.

It was closed for many, many years, I used it when I got my first car in '75 but I don't think it was around for much longer than that.

We used to go in the Marquis of Granby for a stale pork pie before catching the bus home on college night school nights - I swear it was the same pork pie from under a plastic dome that I ate every week.

rlHunslet Lakerl

rlhow low rise does the city centre look hererl

I've just spent a very enjoyable couple of hours this afternoon a-wandering the streets of Leeds photographing pubs & bars for a little painting project, including...

Bourbon (Cookridge St), Casa Mia, O'Neils, The Vic, Scarboro Taps, The bottom of Mill Hill, The Hogs Head on Lower Briggate, Three Legs & The Vine.

The latter two I took the precaution of keeping the width of The Headrow between me, the camera and the clientele lest they think I was gathering evidence...



There are dozens of great old pub buildings in Leeds city centre and dozens more that were obviously pubs in the past and are now something else - Storeys amusements opposite the markets for instance ???

So when will there be an exhibition of the works of J. Chicken

There's a couple of drawn ones rlhererl that were done a while ago, but these ones are going to be watercolour - have nearly finished The George tonight so will upload it soon.

This was the public bar of the Merrion Hotel.

If you were in there around 82/83, I may well have served you.