Yuppie flats and a working brewery was never going to be a good match, and when you add in Leeds Council's desire to change the city's image, then Carlsberg were laughing all the way to the developers bank.

A sad day for those of us who remember the horse drawn drays in the city centre, so, Leeds Pale it is then!

Sam Smiths still do weekly deliveries to Tadcaster pubs using Horse and Dray

Tad Rhino works (occasionally) for Sam Smiths and can vouch for this. He can be found on delivery days walking behind the dray with a shovel and a bag.

Has he been promoted ?

A good pint of Tetleys is as rare as rocking horse doo doo anyway. Plastic pubs don't want actual beer anyway, they just want something fizzy with 5% alcohol in it.

Things have never been the same since the "Tetley Bar" at Leeds Uni was re-branded the "Old Bar" and they covered all the seats in green velour.

There's heaps of ales around nowadays and Tetley's hasn't been any good for years. I used to like a decent pint of it but haven't had one since the early 90s. Shame as a good pint of Tetley's was pretty good and was a decent session ale.

Leeds Brewery has taken over as the best brewery in the city now.

Tetley's has always been overrated, and that's before Carlsberg took over. During the 70's and 80's there was only ever the obvious handful of pubs where you would be served a decent pint of the stuff... at the rest it generally tasted absolutely disgusting, and there was never any other beer that was quite as disgusting as a bad pint of Tetley's.

Like Bullseye, I quit drinking Tetley's a long time ago.

My wife used to run Tetleys pubs,its how we met (her on one side of the bar and me on the other) and she kept an outstanding pint, she was taught properly by John Armitage the landlord of The Plummet Line in Halifax during the 1980's. All this reminiscing about Tetleys had us talking, and i think it is the 1980's when i last had a truly decent pint of Tetleys. After the closure, I wont ever touch the stuff again.

Norman the Landlord in The Fox at Horsforth always kept a good pint of Tetley's as did Graham Eccles when he took over the place.

Its still a good few years since Graham Eccles left Horsforth.

I thought that the Adelphi supplied an excellent pint of Tetley's Real Ale.
It must be 20 years since I last had a pint there so that will have been my last pint of Tetley's.
I'm a wee bit sad to see it go since it was the first bitter I ever drank in the Mucky Duck in Frizinghall.
However, I've since discovered infinitely superior pints so my sadness is very temporary & I'm not in the least sorry to see the brewery go.
The current site is no longer suitable, pull it down & redevelop the whole area including the ex chemical factory.
What a planning & development opportunity.
Any new brewery should be sited in the Aire Valley enterprise zone.

Its a hell of a lot more since Norman retired



Those were the good old days of pubs, the days when a pub WAS the hub of a community and if you walked in at 12 noon on a sunday lunch you knew who would be in there, where they would be sat and what they would be drinking, the landlord knew you and he knew what you were drinking and on any Sunday lunchtime in the 1970s after Sunday League football the tap room in The Fox would be ram packed, two football teams to serve in the two hour Sunday lunchtime opening slot then home for your mothers roast beef dinner



Some things have changed for the worse.

Still a difficult trade to operate in, the recent success of the micro brewery's is down to scale and servicing what is really a small market.

For instance there is currently a micro brewery for sale in West Yorkshire, we've half-joked in recent months that we should all chip in and buy it and get our ex-Tetleys brewer mate to run it for us, fact is that it currently brews German lager beer under licence and is obviously struggling in the market.

Those small and micro brewery's that are currently enjoying success will find all the same problems when they decide to re-finance and bring in outside investors who want to see a decent return on their money, while they are happy to brew for the love of it and for a wage every week, when you introduce investors and start talking about expansion then it fails to be a love of beer and becomes a love of money and your clientele will notice,

Leeds Brewery Midnight Bell in the Whitelocks is a good replacement for Tetleys. Fantastic pint.

Isnt it a listed building or something? It has already been said - prime land - new yuppie flats - equals big profits for some property developer!!

The Adelphi's Tetley's isn't much to write home about any more. You'd be better off with a pint of Taylors.

I agree with you there,I think the demise of pubs came with the introduction of all day drinking.Going for a pint now on sundays lunch is depressing.

Yes it is,but is is a good session drink?I think its about 4.8%?bit too strong for most people who want more than just a couple

Years ago The Whip down in lower Briggate served a cracking pint.

They had the weirdest clientele of any pub I've ever been in though!

That was the last pub in Leeds where women were'nt allowed.In about 1969 when the law's came in a group of liberated ladies came in and they must have thought ugh they can keep it

.Yes it was a great pint of Tetley's construction worker's used get in a lot especially after their saturday morning shift

Problem with the Carlsberg boycott with us being rugby league fans is that Carlsberg/Tetley is the only beer served at grounds.

Wouldn't it be good if no-one bought any though, because lets be honest, its p1ss-poor.

And expensive.

and we would'nt any drunken incidents that are creeping into our game

My Grandad used to work there for over 20 years till retiring around 1987.He told me that it was the best place in Leeds to work for and they even told him after offering the job .."the only way you'll leave is if you sack yourself..keep your nose clean and you've got a job life.."
The stories that came out of that place were fantastic and when he retired they put on a weekly Friday afternoon session for all the old workers in the bar on site.Free beers for all!!! Regularly he came out after a skinful with his mate ran for the bus,sat down huffing and puffing, only to realise they'd got on the wrong one and ended up in east Leeds rather than Moortown!!
One great story is when a mate of his went for a job there, in the stables looking after the shire horses..Mild & Bitter
" Right you've got the job,starting time is 7.When you first get in sweep the yard and clean up..but make sure you do it quietly till 8"
Mate replied " Quietly?? why must i do that?"
"Because the horses dont get up till then"
You couldnt make it up

Ive heard story's like that too ,brilliant,and sad now

My friend who has taken forced retirement from Tetleys on Friday used to ride his bike to work most days as part of his job was tasting the beer, yes its true

you can take him into any Tetleys pub and he'd tell you when the beer was brewed.

They used to get a weekly allowance of cans and he'd save them up until he had a case of 24 then stick them in his backpack and ride his bike home.

Coming up to the traffic lights outside the Merrion Centre one evening with a back load of cans he stopped in front of the bus stops outside the College of Technology, forgot about the backpack, leaned back and toppled over backwards with the weight, he said he laid on the road like a tortoise unable to get up and not one person stood waiting for a bus helped him up, lots of them nearly wet themselves laughing though.