Hand pulled?

There are too many incidents to identify the specific one to which you seem to be referring, I have needed assistance in leaving many pubs in the past, some voluntarily, some not so, and in one bar in a country a long way away I needed help in finding the door after walking around said bar three times trying to find somewhere to leave by.

I don't touch the stuff now.

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In 1974 ?

You must be joking.

People don't believe me when I say there were only two pubs in Leeds still with hand pumps in 1974 - the one behind the fire station on Burley Rd (The Highlander ?) and Whitelocks.

Bradford had loads, but then electricity hadn't found the city at that time.

I bought my first ever pint in The Crown at the bottom of Tong Road.

I was always more grassroots than you to be fair.

The Regent in Chapel allerton also kept hand pumps when all the others went electric.

Thats true.

There were a handfull left in Leeds, we used to make special trips to them, around '78 or so we bought a copy of the CAMRA guide - there was I believe only one pub in Leeds in it, The Eagle at Sheepscar.

There was a whole chapter for Bradford and the Halifax section just said "all of them"

I remember when Boddingtons switched over to electric pumps. They had a glass cylinder on top of the pump which drew your beer in and then released it half pint by half pint. A sad day.
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Yes.

Used to be beloved of bus drivers IIRC.

No. Not now anyway, couldn't tell you about back in t'day.

Ah, The Eagle Tavern. Happy memories of that place, but have you seen it these days? What a dump it is. Tragic when you consider how good it once was.

Its probably 25 years since I last went in there, I recall a heaving pub full of genuine beer drinkers - this is probably a good time to mention The White Stag next door - my great grandfather was the landlord there in the days when he used to brew his own beer.

Is that the one with the sinking car park out front.

In the late 70s the Eagle was the first pub to be owned by CAMRA

The White Stag used to do cracking lock-ins...erm...allegedly! Had many a good night in there.
I also bought my first pint in the Woodman, again, long before my 18th...again, allegedly.

Seems like a few of you are from the Leeds 16 area , did any of you go to Iveson House junior school ? I got my 1st season ticket for Headingley there, it cost 10 shillings.John Atkinson was a former pupil and used to live just over the road.

I am LS16, but I did junior school in the North West, then straight to Prince Henrys in Otley.

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What was the name of the pub opposite the bus station that was demolished to make way for the road changes??

Smyths or Lloyds arms ?

Are you thinking of The Woodman/Woodcock, something like that? It was further down York Road and was demolished when they put the fly-over in that comes into Leeds.

That would be The Woodpecker i think

That's the one. It was the woodpecker junction as well. For some reason I can never remember the name of the place. Am I right in thinking that was one of the regular haunts of the Monday club, featuring Schofield, Creaser, et al?

woodpecker bottom of york road
the smyths and lloyds arms were over near the new developments near royal armouries