Leeds Pubs bygone

A few bygone pubs of Leeds Yorkshire.

[@csbenson1960]

I used go to The Albion on Armley Rd, just outside the Greenbat factory gate. I was an apprentice there from '77 to' 80, it went under as part of Fairbairn Lawson. We used to have a pint and pie n peas for lunch, shandy of course!

[@Capillus]

Sad to see the PackHorse gone... we used to go there as students in the 90s.

[@angelique___5607]

Fforde Grene. Nowt better. Dire straits, Hank Wangford, Sex Pistols, Every frikkin group/band you could EVER imagine played there. Only place you could go in with £2.50 to your name, get pissed, watch a Tyson fight, play Hot Chocolate on the jukebox and come home with half a leg o’lamb for Sunday’s dinner, 3 DVDs (that weren’t at the cinema yet, probably still in production) and three pound change (and the taxi was only 0.80p home!😂 Best pub, EVER. EVER. Long live the Ffordey.

[@elephantsmemory3142]

I saw Bo Diddly there

[@hereandthere4763]

Late seventies - Spider Blues Band every Sunday dinner time in the basement.

[@napoleoninrags3050]

@@hereandthere4763 Yep I remember them they used to play every Friday night in a basement wine bar on Park Row I think. Always finished with a spectacular "Hey Joe", brilliant band. I think it was spelled "Spyder".

[@hereandthere4763]

@@napoleoninrags3050 Yes , now you've reminded me it was Spyder.

[@hereandthere4763]

@@napoleoninrags3050 Was it Grobs Wine Bar? Just found a CD I thought I still had. Spyder Blues Band "Live at Grobs Wine Bar Leeds" recorded in 1976.

[@grahamb5930]

The 4th one shown on the corner of Lovell Park Road and Lovell Park Hill reminds me of the Jockey in Shameless.

[@paulwilliams5296]

Little Londoner. I had my first mad Friday in there Xmas 1990 I was an apprentice for Haden young working on lovell Park Leeds permanent head office as it was back then.

[@eugenemorice8545]

The New Roscoe Worked behind the bar there for a wee while 30 yrars ago.. Barn of a place. Great live acts on a Thursday night (esp a soul band from Wakey called "The Solicitors ") and Friday and Saturday nights were grand. Noel snd Joyce now retired to Spain I'm led to believe...

[@dougieroberts7045]

Spent many an 'hour or three' in lots of these pubs, and many more not shown here. No idea why so many pubs closed in such a short space of time.

[@alisonlee3314]

Part of traditional British life.....which is being obliterated

[@paulmcdonnell8304]

Miggy arms. Toughest of all

[@joaquinguzman8315]

Full of big girls more like.

[@brucekilby9957]

It started with the Shaftsbury and ends with The Shaftsbury. A metaphor for all the pubs in Leeds that were Shafted? ⚽️🏏🍺🇬🇧

[@leedswiggy]

It starts with the fairway not the shafts

[@Robby334]

Very sad all these pubs have gone - A sign of the time I guess.

[@csbenson1960]

Also remember going to Otley, Westbourne Arms, run by the Poole family (Glyn Poole-All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth) Drinking games to win more drinks etc

[@edwardbarr1533]

A citywide decimation of the local pub and the suburban superpub .Leeds is not alone in this ,the same has happened to Nottingham and is perhaps the most pronounced in Wolverhampton and down the road in South/South East Birmingham.

[@joaquinguzman8315]

It's called immigration and white flight.

[@ChantingInTheDark]

Used to walk past the Hobby Horse all the time!

[@davidgibbs7232]

I have been in all of them at one time or another.Not many pubs left these days.All bleedin wine bars.

[@johnmack6308]

Or Tesco's

[@wellyftw]

Or Wetherspoons.

[@davidgibbs7232]

@@wellyftw one of my old haunts is now a McDonalds.

[@wellyftw]

@@davidgibbs7232 one of my old haunts is a Tesco and another is a Co-op. 👎

[@davidgibbs7232]

@@wellyftw sad world we old boozers exist in eh. 😊 😔 😷

[@SeekTruth300]

On one hand it’s sad. But people have voted with their feet. The pubs simply don’t have the demand they once did. A lot of young men will head to the gym now rather then sit in a pub.

[@bravo2966]

They didn't so much vote with their feet, more forced to vote financially because of the government imposed high prices. You used to be able to go in any of these pubs with a fiver and have a good night. That price trebled and more over a few short years and people simply didn't have the disposable income any more.

[@leedswiggy]

My local. My beloved Fairway 😢

[@miagroves1230]

My dad used to own the old oak tree in bramley it got demolished was wondering if anyone here used to go there?

[@yorkshirepudding6980]

There goes my youth , went or worked in most of these pubs. Really sad .

[@csbenson1960]

Another pub now long gone was the Peacock at Yeadon, a pub, and ight venue, saw the Marmalade play there, those were the days eh?

[@hebicat]

I guess there are no photos of the Piccadilly Bar (Next to the City Varieties ticket office) off the Headrow.

[@Catmanyorkshire]

Sorry mate, can't help you with that one.

[@aaddrriiaannful]

SO SAD HAD SOME GREAT TIMES IN THEM THERE PUBS

[@user-xb3oy3vk7v]

Sad to see all them pubs gone been in most of them

[@davidwrighton3914]

no pubs -----no England

[@daleHarrison93]

Hi, Have you got any pictures of The Seven Sisters pub in potternewton? i think it was on miles hill, my family owned it cant find pictures anywhere cheers

[@Catmanyorkshire]

Hello, Bit of an elusive pub the Seven Sisters, off the beaten track. Do not have picture and cannot find one. Could possibly have changed its name to the Hill top inn. If so it was on Beckhill grove, miles hill Meanwood. It was demolished 2007 Cheers

[@fezhat7096]

The Seven Sisters was a working mens club, it became the Hill Top pub in mid 1980 and then changed its name again to something like the Park View towards the end of its life. Now gone and houses on the site.

[@daleHarrison93]

ah thanks for the help everybody!

[@hcv500]

drank in a fair few of them

[@Robby334]

Very sad - its the signs of the times as they as

[@claire9547]

Lot of my teenage and twenties there

[@archstanton8670]

Leeds is now in name only. The character of the place has been sucked dry. There’s a few old remnants here and there. They only serve to remind you how the city once was. It’s sad.

[@johngrves3156]

All them up Cross Green/ East Street ...GONE .....You go in town ..how much a pint ,? Only a few proper Leeds pubs left now...Town is for the Daytrippers now

[@Catmanyorkshire]

Off the top of my head, I recall the following, The Black Dog, The Bridgefield, The Cavalier, The Cross Green, The Hampton, The Fisherman’s Hut, The Richmond, The Shepard, The Slip Inn, The Spring Close, The Waterloo, and The Yew Tree.

[@amarillagriffin7427]

I've been in most of those pub's putting alcohol in to supermarket's and high rent's have rung the death knell for pub's also people not happy with just drink including drug's too.

[@Catmanyorkshire]

Sadly, you are right I wonder what this virus is going to do to the rest of them.

[@wellyftw]

Wetherspoons and people who go to Wetherspoons have a lot to answer for this. They want cheap beer and cheap food. If you don’t support your local then this is what happens.

[@adamdennison80]

Exactly, imagine having a weatherspoons as your local.

[@ssbraga]

The internet is killing public life.

[@Catmanyorkshire]

I agree

[@sidewaysaction9983]

Where's us old miggy lads supposed to go to fight now the arms has gone

[@spongebob8678]

bell isle 😅😅😅😅😅

[@Rob_Walker.]

When weed is legal here I shall name my shop The Heyfield in memory

[@MrG-wq5pb]

Thought White lion on tong road might of been on there

[@Catmanyorkshire]

Hello Mr. G. Happy to inform you that the White Lion is included in Leeds Pub bygone 2 Thanks for watching it.

[@mk2dubster]

Sad to see

[@davidpetty4456]

Cardigan Arms is still going

[@uncleloves9375]

Skinners arms

[@algizmo7079]

Just to say The Leeds Rifleman is still alive, barely. Afternoons til early evening. Rumours of it's demise premature.

[@karengill8234]

So sad. …..

[@ssbraga]

Internet is killing the public life.

[@mk2dubster]

It's not just the internet that's killing socialization, prices and the change in the demographic of communities

[@Rob_Walker.]

People don't want to physically socialize no more so sad

[@indysingh6145]

This video made me laugh.. You are all crying about Pubs that are no longer there! Grow a pair of balls guys!! Whats wrong with you.. lol...:D

[@bravo2966]

You clearly don't understand, you think a pub is somewhere to just go and sit. Pubs were the heart of British community, it's where people from all over the community got together, had fun together, had birthdays, engagements, weddings, socialising, resolved community disagreements, a job centre, crimes solved, the list goes on. The destruction of pubs is the destruction of traditional British communities. That makes you laugh because you had no idea.