aye you get a few but i know a couple of lads that live just down so it doesnt bother us. food is better now i'd say. glad it reopened though as like emma said, on a summer evening there is nowt better than been on the decking looking out to howden clough

Can you tell me where the pub avoid in the summer is i might give it a try next time i am in the area?

I stand corrected.



Wasnt there another pub on the other side of the road further up maybe I am getting it mixed up with that.

Box, Arc, Taps and Oak are my favourite places when I head back home.

Box do a decent pizza deal that can come in handy before Friday night games but Arcadia followed by the Taps has the better beer near to the ground.

It's a pity they don't do those before 5pm, I'm always there for dinner.

I was around mid 80's and it did have a bit of a rep then. Queens guys were always in there in the tap room usually, but I hardly ever saw any trouble. We started going down there with several of the Leeds Uni League team who we were mates with (who knew several Queens players) and just got known. Plenty of students wouldn't go anywhere near it though. I didn't think it was possible but they actually managed to serve a good pint of Stones. The day we all graduated we all went down there with our Mum's and Dad's at lunchtime, suits, gowns the lot - happy memories.
I heard it officially changed it's name to the Little Park (from The Park) after I moved away, and I had heard that it was no longer in existance. Shame.

Needless, as mentioned before, is a bit cliquey for my liking. Also, due to the golf club connection, one of my best mates refuses to go in.

The Royal I used to frequent very regularly on a Friday/Saturday night, as did most of Morley, and from there it was often into The Brunswick, when that was open and before they opened up the pool room and it went downhill.

As for the people going into The Rock, I think I know a few of them too. What sort of age group are we looking at here? I left school in the late '80's and some of them were at school with me.

We went most friday evenings last summer, as Emma said the back is great when its sunny, some off the the staff are very ignorant to non clique members but others are fine.

Will have to frequent this summer then.

We can form our own anti-clique, clique and be rude to the rude staff.

Ah forgot the Brunswick. The youth club. used to go in when I was 17. rough as knackers as was the nelson but i know most of the lads in the Nelly. The kids from the Rock i know will have left in 2000 and beyond. You might know Simon Burnley? Known him for years. he is a regular

Every time you mention a pub it's one I know! Nelson's about 50 yards from my current abode. I don't go in often, usually just after LUFC games, but it's a much changed place from the one I remember. It used to be full of kids, but whenever I've been in on a Saturday recently it's been packed, and not with football fans. I think it gets quite a bit of trade from the new part of the Springfield estate.

The Brunswick - back in the late 80's/early 90's it used to be a cracking little pub, but then they opened up the pool room, the beer went downhill and that was the beginning of the end. It's last days were awful, an absolutely disgusting place.

As for Simon Burnley, the name doesn't ring a bell, but I'd hazard a guess I'd know the face. One guy who I do know from the Rock is Jason Thompson, who I was at school with and is now my window cleaner.

Agree with that Flipper - great boozer full of fantastic student totty. What level does the cricket team you mention play at ? Are you looking for players for the coming season ?

That was the Newlands (later re-named The Jolly Brewer). It was fire-bombed and burned to the ground in the afor-mentioned riots of '95, as it was rumoured that the landlord was an ex-copper who had provided the police with information on estate drug dealers. The raids on said drug-dealers is what kicked off the whole riot.

All you need to know about the decline of Headingley boozers! Like so many, I first encountered the wonderful world of drinking in the Woodman (as it was). New Inn was alright but the Three Shoes always felt like drinking with your Dad and his mates (full of Rah Rahs as well).
The students never really bothered me when they were still duffel coat wearers planning 'sit ins' etc.
Slightly OT, but the East Street Crawl was always a laugh (hardly any of it left). We ended up including the Trotters and the White Horse at one stage.
We once tried a pint/half in every pub in town ( we managed 25-26ish - memory not so clear for obvious reasons) with The Pack Horse, The Market Tavern and the General Elliot being 'stand outs'


I've mentioned it before but can anyone remember the name of the pub that very briefly occupied what, I think became Casa Loco (just down from the Chinese Supermarket)? It was on the said town run and was truly odd.

Arcadia is that strange place in the Arndale Centre isn't it ?

Just doesn't feel right having a pub in a shop unit, especially in a soul-less concrete shopping development - a bit like the pub that used to be inside The Merrion Centre, its not right, should be illegal.

SAG?

Chaplins?

Chaplins was the one, opposite the shop on the corner with arguably the strangest stock combination, gas fires and swimming trunks!
Seem to remember going to plalce called 'Baccus' round the back by the bowling alley. Bertie Wooster's at the other end with the wonderfully named 'Sin Bin Crew' scrawled on the side (was there for years).

They usually did as most of them had burnt theirs

It doesnt feel right

When it opened it prided itself on being a non smoking bar with quality lagers


now its a bar with very expensive lagers

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I remember that shop now, I actually bought some swimming trunks from there

Did they try and sell you a gas fire to go with it?

No, but it was the late 80's, around the time of my 18th, so my figure was somewhat different to now. Suffice to say, the trunks were a slightly different style to what I'd wear to swim in these days.