No its usually "ooh look, its Alan Carr"

Paul sykes the ex boxer was the glass collector in the gaiety just before it closed and the strippers were dogs! What was the name of the big white pub further up in Chapeltown that got closed after a shooting? was well dodgy, also the Market tavern was very lively in my youth

not when i was there..... unless he'd just taken over .

I remember him running warrens @ armley around that time just near the barcelona another quality establishment.

protection via a load of city centre doorman looked to be ongoing for a few days , was 20 years ago now

The hayfield! ta for that. Got refused service in there before a yorkshire cup final at headingley. the barman said it wasn't the right sort of place for us wakey fans and he wasn't wrong!

The madhouse! Now that was a rough pub...

He was, We had to play pool there the following thursday, I say we, I let one of the other lads have a game that night, I'm all for squad rotation. I'm generous like that.

it certainly was and the after hours drinking club across the road was crazy. you went down steps into a cellarbar and entered another dimension!

Snakepit??

is that what it was called? was too

to remember, don't think i'd have dared go in otherwise!

Fford Grene anyone?

I went there a couple of time as a kid – a continental supermarket these days I believe.

went there a few times and never had any hassle.

was with a guy who drove into the hayfields car park, only time i went there, and it was like rourkes drift with zulus running at you!

i sh*t myself

Cost me £8 to get in there a few year back. Had some right times though. Mainly watching what other people get upto in their including a mate who ruined some artwork by writing a long winded poem on it.

Yup it’s a bit more upmarket these days. (how do I get in these situations?)

My dad mentions fondly of Woodway in Horsforth, Milford in Burley, Villeger in Bramley and Precintt in Leeds as rough dives that no long exist.

pmsl. stop throwing those bloody spears!

Correct. Looks alot better thesedays too

Oh yes it could be fun and games in there, then if you still had not had enough, down to the upstairs downstairs ( u.d ) or if you were really brave the barcelona. Oh happy days

Thought I'd google the hayfield, just reading the search results is bad enough.

Drug dealing, killings, yorkshire ripper

The car park of that pub was more dangerous than the pub itself.

It was the RFL's local too. Can just imagine David Oxley popping for a quiet half at lunchtime.

Oh the Bar 'C'


That was certainly an eye opener mind you the lights wasn't much better.
I also remember the Pathfinder a very memorable drinjking experience as was the aforementioned Market Tavern on a saturday dinner time

i can't get this thing to quote more than one quote , help.

the landlord when i was there was a little bloke who i couldn't imagine arguing or fighting ,explains why things might have started with a dispute with the landlord if a much bigger bloke in residence

Maurice Lindsay frequented though......or was that the gayfield??

I bet the heat has really come off Carlos, now that Osama Bin Laiden has come on the scene ....

Alledgedly quite handy with a baseball bat? The old sidewinder. Last seen being sacked from Bison Concrete?

Rumour has it that the police burnt it down - qute a good deterrent.

The old RFL building is a community One Stop centre or something like that now.

The cheap sods still haven't replaced the windows though, got the XIII logo engraved on them.