Does anyone know where the name Little London came from? I gather it must because it's as hospitable as Tower Hamlets?

[url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2008523_166785&DISPLAY=FULLcivic hall 1947[/url

Booo - gerroff....

Another good photo, the site mentions all of the housing at the top left which was demolished for the Uni and inner ring road but also the bit in the bottom right is what used to be the civic theatre and above that is what was demolished to make way for Kitson College.

When you see photos like that you realise just what was ploughed down in the 1950's and 60's around there - far more than the building work that is going on now, and thats saying something.

Is that the approved school Blenheim to the top of the picture

It would be



The raggy-d kids from Blenheim were moved to Lawnswood while I was in the fifth form when Blenheim closed - you can only imagine the culture shock



The school stayed closed fo at least three years after that because when I was at Kitson College of Technology faking interest in the subject we took one of our exams in the upstairs hall of the now deserted Blenheim school and whie we were in the middle of the exam a huge piece of plaster (like six foot square) fell off the ceiling and just missed the lecturers head.

The exam was abandoned and that was the only reason that I passed the first year of the ONC course - the following year in true eurovision stylee I scored one point in the actual ONC because I remembered to write my name at the top of the paper - its a record that still stands and I was drummed out of the college in disgrace and not a minute too soon.

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Not sure if anyone else has linked to the above site but it seems to list almost every ex-pub that ever existed in Leeds.

Be warned, looking at that site may make you cry. It's tragic.

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!!

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

this [url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200279_82644290older one[/url 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.

[url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2004316_97370548&DISPLAY=FULLHunslet Lake[/url

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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 [url=http://jerrychicken.wordpress.com/drawn-artwork/here[/url 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.

The threep`ny bit pub........

given all the talk of lost pubs, just been talking to these [url=http://www.midnightbell.co.uk/these people[/url, nice to see a new independent pub from the [url=http://www.leedsbrewery.co.uk/Leeds Brewery[/url

forgot about [url=http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/screen/18/9618.jpgthis one[/url

Eeh, you bugger, Flipper!

There was a model shop down that arcade, wasn't there?

That looks a very decent.

I'd never heard of the brewery until a few weeks ago when I was in a pub in Nottingham where they had several of them. I had to text El Barbudo who looked them up - they were news to him too.

A visit may be in order. Though I still need to find out when the Grove does it's bluebeat night too.