The George on Great George Street central Leeds, being opposite the Leeds General Infirmary makes this a popular local for medical students and assorted medical-eze staff in general, so much so that one of the entrance doors has the sign “Ward 13″ hung above it presumably because the hospital is superstitious and doesn’t have one, “Just popping down to Ward 13″ must be a fairly well worn excuse by now.
Hog’s Head Bar, Lower Briggate, Leeds – one of a new generation of “bars” that have sprung up in Leeds in the last ten years, it looks like an old pub but its not, its one of a national chain of bars that now deliver corporate beers and corporate lunches in pseudo “old pub” surroundings – but I liked its treatment of the old building anyway and the red frontage brightens up what used to be a very dreary part of Leeds city centre – right next door to what was Watson & Cairns bike shop.
PS – Presumably the franchise owners use of the apostrophe in the word “Hog’s” means that they are using the literal “hog” or “swine” or “pig” version of the word and not the “hogshead” barrel size in the brewing industry ?
Why wouldn’t it surprise me if a national chain of bar owners didn’t know what a hogshead was ?
The Laurel Inn at Robin Hoods Bay – about halfway up the winding “New Road” which winds its steep way up the cliff face from the small landing stage, and which was probably new 200 years or so ago after the old road “King Street” fell into the sea, is The Laurel Inn, crammed into as small a space as possible in the same manner as the rest of New Street – how fortunate we are that town planners and local authority building inspectors didn’t exist in those days or we would not know of the randomness of such villages.
Casa Mia, Millenium Square, Leeds. An imaginative conversion of the old Electric Press building right in the city centre has led to this mediterranean style bar and restaurant together with a theatre and nightclub in the same building – a far better use than if it had been demolished and some concrete monolith erected instead.
The Three Legs and The Vine, neighbours on The Headrow in Leeds, “spit and sawdust” pubs of at least 100 years vintage.
Excellent work! Boy, does it bring back memories.
- Brutus
Cheers !
Next up, in a few days, a pub called hogshead, which you won’t recognise because I certainly didn’t, its the building next door to what used to be Watson & Cairns though.
My dad bought my first bicycle for Watson and Cairns. I remember it well.
A collection of such paintings would make a nice calendar. Thanks for the pics.
Thanks for the comment, there’s a few others in the series to finish – and who knows what may happen after that !
Very nice indeed. If I were you I’d try to sell images through some of the stock photo sites.
Thanks for the comment, I hadn’t thought of that route, I may investigate a little further !