Lost Leeds pubs and night clubs of the 80s

[@smiler6284]

Barbarella’s, the precinct, the bank , martine’s nightclub and foxes , all bars and clubs that made nights out in the city fantastic , great memories 👍

[@Mystical_Awakening_444]

I absolutely love your videos on the history of Leeds. Extremely interesting & beautifully made. Thank you

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@tonycallaghan170]

Yes you're doing a fine job sir my compliments ...how time flies...

[@pollyester6639]

One missed Chaplins in the merrion centre. It might have been known as Swiss Cottage. It had cottage windows.

[@bravo2966]

A lot of those were my haunts, though a bit disappointed Hollywood Days and Nights wasn't on there.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you. I will look to include it if I do a follow up / part two.

[@UTubeAngelique]

Foxes used to drop house music strictly at 1am on Monday night after listening to Luther Vandross and Macy and The Macks.

[@antrog1895]

Madisons ‘strict entrance code’ you had to look like a bank manager - shirt tie trousers. One night they were even checking under your jacket to make sure your shirt had long sleeves.

[@GeogJuice]

Ha ha, that made me laugh. Thank you

[@UTubeAngelique]

My cousin used to be on the door at Martine’s. I remember getting in on my 16th birthday!😂

[@darransykes2540]

I always met up with my mate at the Pig and Whistle and Charlie's Bar round the back but that was in the 90s. In the 80s, myself and my mates always met up at Tiffany's Nightclub every Saturday night. Sometimes we would start off at Maddisons in Infirmary Street and work our way from there, up to The Bank and then on to Tiffs to round off the night. The 80's was awesome for a good saturday night out! An not forgetting, Scrumpy's, that was a downstairs club, rough as hell but a good place to go for a nightcap.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you Darran

[@pauljames1258]

chaplins

[@Robby334]

Thanks, I find your channel very interesting having lived in Leeds since 1973 and remembering many of these places.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@ianvincent69]

Boy, does that bring back some memories. Cheers mate.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@ianvincent69]

@@GeogJuice although you didn't mention Hoagy's Piano Bar at the bottom of Eastgate, but great selection. You had a picture of the Three Legs, I used to go in there with my girlfriend as it was near the red bus station (she lived in Yeadon) and have a pint of Tetleys. Ahh, I do miss Tetleys.

[@daraghcorcoran6587]

Great stuff. I arrived in the 90s and recognised loads of these locations. Great to see the old entrance doors in the present day.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you Daragh

[@melvinturner6654]

Great stuff...was hoping for the Dutchess Pub...live music.

[@GeogJuice]

I planned to include it Melvin and even videoed outside it, but I decided to include it in a future video.

[@melvinturner6654]

@GeogJuice That would be great,although when I posted comment I immediately thought its not quite a night club...more live music band place. Sadly there's lots you can do on Pubs going.You would think that a Pub such as The Victoria, just down from lgi would be listed, the brass bar rails in the shape of elephants and the old style layout should be of national importance .Love your work,doing a great job 👏 👍

[@trevormegson7583]

A proper nostalgic trip. Many Thanks. Glad my local 'Upstairs-Downstairs' or the U D as we called it made it into the selection.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you Trevor

[@UTubeAngelique]

Le’Phonegraphique was to the LEFT of that picture and downstairs. I DJayed there. It was sort of in the centre, middle bottom.

[@BattlesDiplomacy]

An amazing video! More social history/geog videos of the 80/90s please

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@Leeds-Lad-in-LA]

Fascinating look at Leeds nightlife. I did my partying in the 70’s and remember vividly getting off the 53 bus from Morley and heading over to the Pig n’ Whistle in the Merrion Center. What a great pub. We only occasionally went to Cinderella Rockerfella’s as it was a tad pricey…we were more the Mecca (in the Merrion center) crowd and a quick trip to Wimpeys Burgers afterwards.

[@GeogJuice]

Good memories. Thank you

[@Ghengiskhansmum]

There was also the "Heaven and Hell" and "Intime" in the Merrion centre in the 70's and another club next to the Mecca but can't remember the name.

[@karengill8234]

Brilliant, thank you so much for bringing back such good memories. ……….

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you Karen

[@frogandspanner]

I am originally from Leeds (to age 16), and returned there to university in Leeds in the '70s. Forgive me for spilling my mental seed while I can still remember. A favourite pub was Whitelocks, which granddad called _the Turk's Head_ . All other Leeds folk I knew pronounced it as _Wittlocks_ . I remember _Brahms and Liszt_ (well, I remember going to a pub with that name). I was a member of a charity, _Bacchus_ , that would go around pubs and collect for the poor. We would also get drunk. (Every penny we collected went to charity, and we would top it up). B&L had among the most generous clientèle. _Last orders_ in the '70s was 22:30. [Not Leeds related: A friend's father (a retired Air Commodore) could charm _any_ publican into removing towels from the beer engines and reopening the tills. I was with my pal Stewart and his dad Sir Sid at a Christmas Eve soiree in the local , and noticed it was now Xmas morning. I turned to the group and said "It's lucky the village policeman isn't around", and one of the group retorted "I _am_ the village policeman" . We went on for another couple of hours] As a postgrad I lived close to the Ffffforde Grene (no longer with us), and saw some interesting bands there. One band was the Sex Pistols - a few months before they became famous. I think it was there that I saw Dire Straits and Ultravox (the problem is I saw so many bands in the Leeds University Infectory that I get confused). In the days of 22:30 last orders (22:40 chucking out) is was virtually impossible to go the the _Last Continuous Performance_ at the cinema and have a drink after, so it was necessary to go to the pub beforehand, and either cater for bladder needs by uncomfortable containment, inconvenient container, or in convenience visits. The White Swan (or whatever it was called in the '70s) was a popular haunt for such pre-cinematic imbibulation. One early evening, before the 17:30 opening time, we arrived to find a small, chunky gentleman there waiting for the doors to open. He looked rather familiar, and we got chatting with him. The conversation continued when the doors were opened, and we had a very interesting hours' drink with Les Dawson. I remember going to the basement club in the Merrion Centre. A friend from Wishaw invented the _Wishaw Stomp_ , which consisted on one foot being the pivot point, while the other stomped a circumference more or less in time to the music (less, as alcohol consumption increased), while yelling out in a broad Scottish accent with Yorkshire tints. I often had Saturday lunch at _the Athenaeum_ opposite the town hall. I believe it became a lap-dancing club. I often met friends at the _New Prospect_ in Belle Isle, later renamed _the Omnibus_ , now demolished. My school X-country run route took us past _the Myrtle_ , and older looking pupils claimed that they called in for a swift one on the run. I believe it's still there. I also got so drunk in the Hofbrauhaus that I lost two days. That's gone. The pub, I mean, as well as the two days.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you for sharing those memories

[@neilhawkins9017]

I used to work at Rockshots and the bar below it called Bananas in 1988 through 1990. Great times. Good to see so many old places I used to use. Especially The Alternative and Alternative 2.

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks Neil

[@BettySwollocks13]

Thanks for the film, great memories.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@Pelt101]

Great vid… brilliant memories

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@michaeldibb]

Thanks for bringing back memories of Leeds nightlife for me. Do you remember The News nightclub in the Queen's Hotel?

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks Michael, and yes, I do. I am not sure if it was open in 1987, which was the year I based this video on - I used the 1987 phone book as a source. I remember going in, around that time though. The revolving dance floor was fun!

[@Sharon-marie]

I remember the night club under the queen's Hotel but can't remember it being called ' the news' x

[@SarahW-j7d]

It was definitely "the News" in 1986/1987, I remember it well. Revolving dancefloor. I remember the start of House Music there, hearing Jack Your Body, Steve Hurley! All the dancers giving it their all trying to out dance each other.

[@adeledeblansec2907]

Meeting at the Pig and Whistle or the Duchess of York before going to Adam and Eve ,or the Phono or the Warehouse.These were my regular places. Memories of my misspent 20s in Leeds...I've also ended (usually by chance) in all the other places mentioned in the video. So interesting to see how it's all changed. Thank you

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you Adele. I plan to include the Duchess of York in a future video. It was a great place!

[@belleooo]

We stuck to mainly the out of town venues, but was known to venture into Leeds to visit Tiffanys.

[@DarrenLeathley]

Some of these staggered on to my nascent drinking days in the mid 90s, even into the early 00s. And boo to dress codes!

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks Darren :)

[@mollepolle]

Thank you for your time and effort. Very interesting, even for a foreigner.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@MrDodgedollar]

Brilliant night out for all !

[@badgermoring5290]

Great video, my family moved from America to run a pub called "The Chained Bull" in the 90s. Are you gonna do a video on former 90s pubs? I miss that place, and Leeds very much. Again, great job!!

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you. I considered including The Chained Bull in this video. I will look to include it in a future one.

[@julian-xd6iz]

Yes! Chained Bull R.I.P

[@eugenemorice8545]

Sadly the Chained Bull in Moortown is no more. Home of the "Beckies" ( Jewish lasses out and about on the lash) and opposite a decent bagel shiop as I recall which used to open in the early hours of Sunday morning !!

[@gailhorner30]

A new subscriber loved looking at my old haunts, Best Night Outs in the 80s, Kings Arms on Meanwood Road was our meeting place if any was late met at The Little Londoner in Little London.

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks for commenting and subscribing Gail.

[@rjt3476]

So I'm randomly looking at videos of Leeds on KZbin and find out its made by my old manager! Not what I was expecting!!! Glad to see your doing well!

[@GeogJuice]

RJT? Rob Thornton?

[@TheCrimsonAvenger]

The Ranchburger establishment was previously the Ceylon tea , which provided the opportunity to taste and enjoy all types of tea.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you. I think I just remember that now.

[@andrewroberts2930]

Brilliant Bryan ... thank you as always

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you Andy

[@rodneyhull9764]

We must be of a similar age....Cullens,best memories. Thanks

[@GeogJuice]

Yes, good times. Thank you

[@andyhudson3495]

It was Leeds in the’70’s for me. Three legs , vine , Gemini bar , the precinct and then on to the central soul club 😁👍

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks Andy

[@magnuscarter9195]

A very interesting and nostalgic video. Many thanks from an old Leeds Lad.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@walkingthedogwithdji]

fabulous as always, thank you

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks Ben

[@thefrecklepuny]

Not a pub goer myself. However, I do recall many of the pubs, clubs and hostelries in this video.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@johnmackintosh3952]

Love your videos more plz keep up the great work

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you John

[@garyoates7474]

Leeds fan from Newcastle, used to meet at Three Legs and then The Vine and Nellies in the 70's and 80's, brilliant.

[@juliehubbard9752]

Hells bells, that was a blast from the past! My friends and I would often take a change of clothes to work on Fridays and go straight out from work! We’d make a beeline for something to eat, then do the rounds at a few pubs then, over the years, visit so many of the clubs mentioned here! The wasn’t a great deal of trouble back then and knife culture was unheard of. Crack was something you found in a mirror. Spice was a a bag of sweets from the corner shop, and smack was something you had on the back of your legs as a kid! How things have changed.

[@leegoodwin3466]

Another magnificent vid 🏆

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you Lee

[@jeremywentworth1833]

Late 80s into early 90s as well as the Warehouse I use to go to the Gallery a lot . Then in the 90s use to go to Back to Basics , can't remember the name of any of the streets even though I worked in Leeds for nearly 20 years but Wakefield born and bred.

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks Jeremy

[@jeremywentworth1833]

I know.its not the 80s but remember due to working in Leeds going in that he'll hole of a dump Big Lil's in the 90s and 2000s until it closed and the other rough hole the 3 Legs god they were toughest/roughest pubs in not just Leeds but West Yorkshire.

[@OoohAaah6603]

I use to work at basics and ronson at the pleasure rooms...great times.

[@anton71888]

They were the days. I think i went in every place you mentioned. You could go out with 20quid back then? With that you could get taxis everywhere. Buy rounds and if you didn't like one nightclub you just went to another couldn't you. Remember getting told when you were a kid what your parents got for a quid and you were like,right ok. Now looking back and seeing what I was getting for a fiver in the eighties the youngens wouldn't believe me today. But watching that brought back some good memories i know that so cheers for the video

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks for adding that comment. So true. Thank you

[@booties8]

really well done . thank you .

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@aaronwright8406]

Great video! You mentioned one of the clubs needs a blue plaque. I think The New Penny, the oldest Gay Bar in Leeds would be a great addition to your compilation. It actually has a blue plaque and offered a sage space for the LGBTQ+ community.

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks Aaron, I was joking that The Alternative fast food take away should have a blue plaque, but you have made a great suggestion there.

[@dervxerox]

Before I became a regular at the Phono, I think an average Saturday would be Jacomelli's, The Bond, sometimes Oscars, sometimes the Conservatory and always the Bank. If we didn't pull, Tiffany's. My friends would laugh at the freaks coming out of the Phono but was so impressed, I ended up joining them. :) I also remember TC's near by and Stallone's. I think it was upstairs near the Superdrug on Kirkgate.

[@markmjames66mj]

Thanks for the old memories, i knew Leeds City Centre (town) like the back of my hand in the 80s. Now i can hardly find a parking spot let alone anything else. Town has gone for the likes of me, ho well it was wicked whilst it lasted.

[@deanfoster1158]

Nostalgia overload after watching that. Used to go in sunset and vine early doors mid week with work pals (and future wife). Trebles and a mixer for £1.00. Those were the days, getting off the train at 7pm after an early doors midweek visit absolutely ratted 🥴

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks Dean

[@simonrhodes848]

Brilliant...Sunset and Vine....in for about 6.30pm on a Wednesday, emerge absolutely rattled on trebles and off to The News nightclub....great days

[@asleeds]

Great video. Some great memories. A few notable mentions to lost classics: Lichfields (opposite Stumps and formerly The Atheneum), Q's (now the Head of Steam in Mill Hill), Chaplin's (Merrion Centre), The Victoria (soon to re-open in late 2024), Jubilee (Headrow) and the original Yates's Wine Lodge under the Bond Street Centre.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you for the suggestions. I plan to do a follow up video.

[@josephbryanmitchell5938]

I remember, (I think it was called, The King Charles) on Lands Lane opposite Queens Arcade. it was on a corner under Schofields department store where now stands Foot Asylum

[@GeogJuice]

There is a picture of it on Leodis.

[@theoneforgaveme]

Thankyou for posting. I miss my leeds 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@misterprecocious2491]

There was a pub in Leeds which they did live music, cannot remember the name but remember they introduced me to my favourite band of all time 'Daisy Chainsaw'

[@fulltiltboogiewoogie]

The Duchess ( of York ).. on Vicar Lane. Daisy Chainsaw played there as did Therapy and Hole😊

[@misterprecocious2491]

@@fulltiltboogiewoogie really? Courtney Love played there, missed that one.

[@fulltiltboogiewoogie]

@@misterprecocious2491 Yeah sure did. Those were the days!!

[@myzigc3036]

@@misterprecocious2491nirvana played the duchess too ;D

[@Smylexxia]

cheers for the nostalgia trip!

[@eugenemorice8545]

Really enjoyed this.. Lived in Leeds from 1985 to 2003 ( now live in Cornwall) so remember quite a few of these. .The one time I knowingly drank and drove was coming out of Stumps when I then drove back to Chapel Allerton . I was stupid..and bloody lucky. Didn't Harvey's have a huge stuffed rabbit in the window at one point ? Once watched my 30 year old mate ( I was 31!) pull in Foxes in Chapel Allerton..smoking a pipe. Worked for a year at the New Roscoe at one point ( down the bottom of town I know..but still miss the old place which is sadly gone). Finally, does anyone remember Hoagy's at the bottom of the Headrow?

[@timduncan9745]

Yes I used to go in hoagys a fair bit early doors

[@MegaVector2011]

Fabulous memories. I was into rock& roll and used to frequent the Whip on Duncan Street and the Palace at weekends that both had rock&roll nights. If I was going out with workmates we would meet at Whitelocks and take it from there frequenting many of the places you mentioned, usually ending up at Chakwals curry house on the side of the Merrion Centre which was very cheap and sold excellent curries. Thanks for the upload, happy days.

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks for adding your memories

[@jm252]

Jacomelli's 1984 used to go every week! 🙂

[@TheCrimsonAvenger]

Had many a nice evening in the Way finder Pub. Would receive comments about the large Cabbages that we bought from the market and placed beside us on the seats. Happy days.

[@GeogJuice]

:)

[@nicenichols9493]

Thanx for that Leeds was Ace in the 80s

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@cariboorombald110]

Great vid…Adam and Eve’s was one door down from that shown …now the Hifi Club.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you, I see now.

[@Sharon-marie]

Wasnt there a small nightclub under the queens hotel too

[@jeremylister89]

Nice one. I suggest additions. The Guilford on the headrow with its snooker upstairs and many pool tables down stairs. Decimated now. Just a bar. Leeds poly disco followed by chip butty over the road at Terrys all time now demolished. The Vic of course behind the town hall.

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks for the suggestions Jeremy, I intend bringing out a follow up later in the year.

[@wakeywarrior]

Went in Lens bar a lot as it was close to our office, didn’t even realise the building had been knocked down. When I started working in Leeds, back in the early 90’s there wasn’t the choice there is now, it was quite poor in a way, compared to other cities.

[@UTubeAngelique]

Peter O’Toole used to go to The Adelphi pub.

[@banner4141]

Litchfields .. opposite stumps .. and the big pub opposite the town hall ? It was circus circus at one point? Conservatory Triples for a £1 in sunset and vine 😊

[@leesmusic1]

Very interesting

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you

[@bolshevikproductions]

Big Lil”s. Formally Jacko Mellies. And The Whip pub and Yates wine lodge all Leeds city centre

[@iansaxby729]

Great night in Len’s Bar after Leeds beat QPR in FA Cup QFs

[@GeogJuice]

I was at that game Ian, but couldn't get in.

[@UTubeAngelique]

Marc Almond, Tainted Love, Warehouse.

[@reddishtykes]

I saw Bad Manners at the Bali Hai (87?) Loved Phonos and the News

[@gord2510]

Before the Alternative and Alternative 2 takeaway was the very first kebab shop, Costas. This was situated where Alternative 2 ended up. These were the best kababs ever. Pitta bread cooked over the coals and the meat, hand cooked and caught in a half a frying pan. Bloody big chunks not wafer thin like it is today.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you for adding that detail.

[@pkinnit]

The Precinct…Tuesday nights. Pizzaland on Briggate The White Swan when it was the Piccadilly Bar

[@OLDGOLDDREAMER]

1980’s Living in the Plastic Age ! ( I’ve also compiled the full 70’s yrs & decade too 🤓🎶👌🏻) 1980 CHART HITS ( Everything...All In Weekly Chart Entry Order ) kzbin.info/aero/PLbO1DMzDZcphfjcVulJ5jsP3oHslGjCuc

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks Andrew. There's some great songs in that playlist!

[@louispks]

The Bank used to get raided at least once a month. The Richmond was a great little nightclub £1.50 entry fee bottles of Skol £1.50 cheap night out.

[@MsBabster]

you missed out the F Club based at what became Brannigangs ..us yooth saw U2,B52s.The Specials,madness,toyah,Adam and the antz,+echo,teardrops,human league,ultravox nd many may more

[@DroneShots_UK]

Oscars - my first pub that I started drinking in aged 16. I was working at IBM next door and often we'd head there after work. Being only 16, there was no chance of me getting served so all the other "grown ups" would buy my drinks. Happy days.

[@GeogJuice]

Thanks for sharing your memories. I liked Oscars and I was 16 when I first visited it. Good times.

[@tonyhobson9677]

Wow that took me back

[@JohnnyWaterbucket]

Night Rider, should been Fight Rider 😂

[@UTubeAngelique]

Barry on Briggate, AKA Rip Off on Briggate.

[@claire9547]

Wow I wondered what had happened to “ the box office “ I worked at … General Wade!! Off Merrion hotel

[@NSYresearch]

If I remember rightly, Harvey's was owned by an American chap who ran the American Football Club, Leeds Cougars...

[@rickyraw5457]

Loved leeds back then ....Todays Leeds is much changed city....and none of the changes have made it better only worse....

[@bobstermaher]

Apart from the fact you were alot more likely to get your head kicked in or glassed but yeah I see your point 😔

[@richardpaterson4627]

See.you.filmed.at.the.most.busiest.time.ghost.town 😊

[@anthonymorrison2117]

At 2am it was time to go to terry's all time cafe(caf) .

[@kirkhunter146]

You got Adam & Eve's (Scrumpys) wrong. It was where the Exchange is now, the right side of the yard not the left side next to the haberdashery shop.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you. You are correct.

[@bolshevikproductions]

Was also another white swan aka the Mucky duck

[@UTubeAngelique]

Fforde Grene - Dire Straits, Buzz Cocks, Hank Wangford…

[@bolshevikproductions]

Photographic under merrion centre

[@OoohAaah6603]

I remember my friends 21st birthday party at Digbys in 1989 and my friend spiking his stepdads drink with an acid tab...funny qs fuck watching him talk to his business associates that were there.

[@UTubeAngelique]

Alternative 1 and Alternative 2.

[@paulwilliams5296]

Alternative kebab shop ❤❤❤. The owner owns La Bella Vita in Garforth I'm led to believe

[@andywarrington4738]

Confettis Merrion centre

[@UTubeAngelique]

The Conservatory and the Observatory.

[@MsBabster]

almost right

[@bolshevikproductions]

Alternative and Alternative 2. Kebab houses. 😂

[@artisansportsman8950]

Fight rider bus service if my memory serves me right 🤣

[@martinwalker7452]

What happened to the gaiety

[@GeogJuice]

It has been knocked down Martin

[@briangreaves8236]

Great video, and remember them well, it's strange how many of them had previously in the late sixties mad other names, and who can forget the hoffbrauhouse!!!

[@allotmentuk1303]

I was a Whitelocks man

[@Fred-rj3er]

What! No Scrumpies!!?? No Headrow crawl? No pubs or clubs that were FUN?? What a sanitised view! I'm guessing, rather confidently, that you didn't actually LIVE IT? Leeds Polly! Brannigans when it became ROCK for a period with separate nights for the gays. FROG AND TOAD, but then again, that was Bradford lol. Ah well. Such is the woke, sanitised version of history now. After all. Long hair and Black Leather Jackets are always evil.

[@GeogJuice]

Thank you for the comment and suggestions. I can assure you I did 'live it' :) The video is set in 1987. Wasn't Scrumpies and Brannigan's before that?

[@helenwalker5432]

OMG ! Everyone mentioned I visited. We also went to the Bank, that too was downstairs. I grew up thru youth club,to Goth, to regular niteclub & finally to .... 'God I feel old & look like a perve stood here these days' 🫣😳 xh