Solicitors/Barristers... Pfft!



I whole heartedly agree about the Scottish lass.

Remember that york road is now raised.

Where were you hiding in the 1970's then ?

I went to the racing there once

I went there once back in '73 to see the FA Cup Final edition of It's A Knockout, Leeds vs Sunderland.... I think we lost that as well!!!

I was in the North West, moved here in 80.

[iThe General Wade[/i, a pub, might have been another name later.

Just the once in my case too, took so long to exit from there that I never bothered again.
Not everywhere had five-star petrol.

Ah ... the Morris Marina TC saloon that I had back then, in Black Tulip with red seats.
Fond memories.

Didn't Hunslet play there for a while?
Or is my memory playing tricks?

Yes they did, so no it's not.

They had "tuning fork" NFL-style goals and you could watch the game from behind glass while eating sausage and chips.

New Hunslet's largest single expense was the amount of strapping needed to prepare Geoff Crewdson to play.

Wooed Mrs Flipper at Hoagy's just of that lovely round about, offered to buy her a drink, she had no cash, not taking no for an answer I said I'd pay, she then proceeded to demolish 11 pints of cider, I was impressed.

I think its previous incarnation was the Tam o'Shanter which was our boozer of choice after college on a Monday evening, it was awful, cheap furnishings and lino floors, I can't think why we ever used to go in there apart from the fact that it was easy to run for your bus in the Central Bus Station because you could see it on its stand and if it started to move you had about 30 seconds to down your pint and run for the bus stop outside Kennedy's record shop 100 yards away up Eastgate.

"Catering" in pubs in those days meant a pie of some description underneath a plastic dome on top of the bar and I curse every last cornish pasty I had in the Tam o'Shanter, I don't think any of them were younger than me.

early ventures into Leeds drinking normally started with a few games of pool [url=http://www.leodis.net/GuidedTour.aspx?ORDER=10&ID=9at[/url

now its a "trendy" bar

[url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20031031_16135806Where I did my schooling[/url now no more

Sorry to be pedantic but in the 70’s it was the 93 to Cookridge and 96 to Tinshill – I remember if you missed the 93 you’d have to catch the 96 get off at Tinshill Top and walk down the hill.

Me too.

But it was Leeds Modern then.

<Puts on his geek spectacles>

You are correct, but only partly, in the early seventies it was as described by Mr Pidbar-Smith, I got my first car around '75 and the numbers were still 33 etc at that time, after that I never caught another bus again until earlier this year when I found that you had to get on at the front - how strange.


AAAAAAAGH!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M DISCUSSING BUS ROUTE NUMBERS !!!

I bet it was the conductor's day off too and you had to pay the driver?

I walked straight past the driver and sat down - he had to stop the bus and come and collect my fare



Theres nowhere under the stairs to leave your shopping trolley either.

I stand corrected - I was sure it was the 93 by 78/9 but then again I’m finding it hard to remember where I put the garage keys last night let alone what a bus number was 30 years ago.

Me too.

In fact, I would have been there when that picture was taken - March 1963 - in the middle of a traumatic first year.

When it was announced it was being demolished I wrote to Jim'll Fix It asking to be allowed to depress the plunger but he didn't get back to me.

John Craven - the jumper sporting kiddies news-reader and Country File host also went there.

As did Alan Bennett

Apparently copies of his school reports got buried with the rubble.

Flipper and a few others might recognise [url=http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2005114_4372805&DISPLAY=FULLthis one[/url although in 1979 it seemed to be populated by insurance brokers and bankers, rather fitting for Adel, what, what ?

My office is now behind that building.