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Lost Leeds pubs and night clubs of the 80s

Geography Juice
2023 ж. 1 Жел.
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This video takes a look at 29 lost Leeds pubs and night clubs of the 1980’s. Using old photographs and current video clips to provide snapshot of a night out in Leeds in the 80’s. Whether you were lucky enough to be there then or not, it is brilliant to see where people used to go out in town!
Included is:
Pig and Whistle, Wayfinder, Nautical Wheel, Oscar’s, The Bond, Ostler’s, The Bank, Stumps, Harveys, Barney’s , Sunset and Vine, Cullen's, Upstairs Downstairs, Richmond, Foxes, Adam & Eve’s Martine's, Madison, Digby’s, Len’s Bar, Top Cats, Mr Craig’s, Rockshots, Le Phongraphique, Tiffany’s, Panama Joe’s, Ritzy, Central Park, Warehouse. Plus, fast food at Ranchburger and The Alternative.
Thank you to GLEN MINFORD for his knowledge and advice.
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  • Barbarella’s, the precinct, the bank , martine’s nightclub and foxes , all bars and clubs that made nights out in the city fantastic , great memories 👍

    @smiler6284@smiler62845 ай бұрын

  • A lot of those were my haunts, though a bit disappointed Hollywood Days and Nights wasn't on there.

    @bravo2966@bravo29665 ай бұрын

    • Thank you. I will look to include it if I do a follow up / part two.

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

    • Oh my God i remember that place! On Boar lane wasn't it upstairs?

      @user-qk7vv3mx1s@user-qk7vv3mx1s5 ай бұрын

  • I absolutely love your videos on the history of Leeds. Extremely interesting & beautifully made. Thank you

    @newtok444@newtok4445 ай бұрын

    • Thank you

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • I always met up with my mate at the Pig and Whistle and Charlie's Bar round the back but that was in the 90s. In the 80s, myself and my mates always met up at Tiffany's Nightclub every Saturday night. Sometimes we would start off at Maddisons in Infirmary Street and work our way from there, up to The Bank and then on to Tiffs to round off the night. The 80's was awesome for a good saturday night out! An not forgetting, Scrumpy's, that was a downstairs club, rough as hell but a good place to go for a nightcap.

    @darransykes2540@darransykes25405 ай бұрын

    • Thank you Darran

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

    • chaplins

      @pauljames1258@pauljames12585 ай бұрын

  • Madisons ‘strict entrance code’ you had to look like a bank manager - shirt tie trousers. One night they were even checking under your jacket to make sure your shirt had long sleeves.

    @antrog1895@antrog18955 ай бұрын

    • Ha ha, that made me laugh. Thank you

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Foxes used to drop house music strictly at 1am on Monday night after listening to Luther Vandross and Macy and The Macks.

    @UTubeAngelique@UTubeAngelique3 ай бұрын

  • Thanx for that Leeds was Ace in the 80s

    @nicenichols9493@nicenichols94935 сағат бұрын

  • A proper nostalgic trip. Many Thanks. Glad my local 'Upstairs-Downstairs' or the U D as we called it made it into the selection.

    @trevormegson7583@trevormegson75835 ай бұрын

    • Thank you Trevor

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • My cousin used to be on the door at Martine’s. I remember getting in on my 16th birthday!😂

    @UTubeAngelique@UTubeAngelique3 ай бұрын

  • Late 80s into early 90s as well as the Warehouse I use to go to the Gallery a lot . Then in the 90s use to go to Back to Basics , can't remember the name of any of the streets even though I worked in Leeds for nearly 20 years but Wakefield born and bred.

    @jeremywentworth1833@jeremywentworth18335 ай бұрын

    • Thanks Jeremy

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

    • I know.its not the 80s but remember due to working in Leeds going in that he'll hole of a dump Big Lil's in the 90s and 2000s until it closed and the other rough hole the 3 Legs god they were toughest/roughest pubs in not just Leeds but West Yorkshire.

      @jeremywentworth1833@jeremywentworth18335 ай бұрын

  • I am originally from Leeds (to age 16), and returned there to university in Leeds in the '70s. Forgive me for spilling my mental seed while I can still remember. A favourite pub was Whitelocks, which granddad called _the Turk's Head_ . All other Leeds folk I knew pronounced it as _Wittlocks_ . I remember _Brahms and Liszt_ (well, I remember going to a pub with that name). I was a member of a charity, _Bacchus_ , that would go around pubs and collect for the poor. We would also get drunk. (Every penny we collected went to charity, and we would top it up). B&L had among the most generous clientèle. _Last orders_ in the '70s was 22:30. [Not Leeds related: A friend's father (a retired Air Commodore) could charm _any_ publican into removing towels from the beer engines and reopening the tills. I was with my pal Stewart and his dad Sir Sid at a Christmas Eve soiree in the local , and noticed it was now Xmas morning. I turned to the group and said "It's lucky the village policeman isn't around", and one of the group retorted "I _am_ the village policeman" . We went on for another couple of hours] As a postgrad I lived close to the Ffffforde Grene (no longer with us), and saw some interesting bands there. One band was the Sex Pistols - a few months before they became famous. I think it was there that I saw Dire Straits and Ultravox (the problem is I saw so many bands in the Leeds University Infectory that I get confused). In the days of 22:30 last orders (22:40 chucking out) is was virtually impossible to go the the _Last Continuous Performance_ at the cinema and have a drink after, so it was necessary to go to the pub beforehand, and either cater for bladder needs by uncomfortable containment, inconvenient container, or in convenience visits. The White Swan (or whatever it was called in the '70s) was a popular haunt for such pre-cinematic imbibulation. One early evening, before the 17:30 opening time, we arrived to find a small, chunky gentleman there waiting for the doors to open. He looked rather familiar, and we got chatting with him. The conversation continued when the doors were opened, and we had a very interesting hours' drink with Les Dawson. I remember going to the basement club in the Merrion Centre. A friend from Wishaw invented the _Wishaw Stomp_ , which consisted on one foot being the pivot point, while the other stomped a circumference more or less in time to the music (less, as alcohol consumption increased), while yelling out in a broad Scottish accent with Yorkshire tints. I often had Saturday lunch at _the Athenaeum_ opposite the town hall. I believe it became a lap-dancing club. I often met friends at the _New Prospect_ in Belle Isle, later renamed _the Omnibus_ , now demolished. My school X-country run route took us past _the Myrtle_ , and older looking pupils claimed that they called in for a swift one on the run. I believe it's still there. I also got so drunk in the Hofbrauhaus that I lost two days. That's gone. The pub, I mean, as well as the two days.

    @frogandspanner@frogandspanner5 ай бұрын

    • Thank you for sharing those memories

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Great video, and remember them well, it's strange how many of them had previously in the late sixties mad other names, and who can forget the hoffbrauhouse!!!

    @briangreaves8236@briangreaves82368 күн бұрын

  • Some of these staggered on to my nascent drinking days in the mid 90s, even into the early 00s. And boo to dress codes!

    @DarrenLeathley@DarrenLeathley5 ай бұрын

    • Thanks Darren :)

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Fascinating look at Leeds nightlife. I did my partying in the 70’s and remember vividly getting off the 53 bus from Morley and heading over to the Pig n’ Whistle in the Merrion Center. What a great pub. We only occasionally went to Cinderella Rockerfella’s as it was a tad pricey…we were more the Mecca (in the Merrion center) crowd and a quick trip to Wimpeys Burgers afterwards.

    @Leeds-Lad-in-LA@Leeds-Lad-in-LA5 ай бұрын

    • Good memories. Thank you

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Meeting at the Pig and Whistle or the Duchess of York before going to Adam and Eve ,or the Phono or the Warehouse.These were my regular places. Memories of my misspent 20s in Leeds...I've also ended (usually by chance) in all the other places mentioned in the video. So interesting to see how it's all changed. Thank you

    @adeledeblansec2907@adeledeblansec29073 ай бұрын

    • Thank you Adele. I plan to include the Duchess of York in a future video. It was a great place!

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice3 ай бұрын

  • Great stuff. I arrived in the 90s and recognised loads of these locations. Great to see the old entrance doors in the present day.

    @daraghcorcoran6587@daraghcorcoran65875 ай бұрын

    • Thank you Daragh

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Brilliant Bryan ... thank you as always

    @andrewroberts2930@andrewroberts29304 ай бұрын

    • Thank you Andy

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice4 ай бұрын

  • The Ranchburger establishment was previously the Ceylon tea , which provided the opportunity to taste and enjoy all types of tea.

    @TheCrimsonAvenger@TheCrimsonAvenger5 ай бұрын

    • Thank you. I think I just remember that now.

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • It was Leeds in the’70’s for me. Three legs , vine , Gemini bar , the precinct and then on to the central soul club 😁👍

    @andyhudson3495@andyhudson34955 ай бұрын

    • Thanks Andy

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Not a pub goer myself. However, I do recall many of the pubs, clubs and hostelries in this video.

    @thefrecklepuny@thefrecklepuny5 ай бұрын

    • Thank you

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Really enjoyed this.. Lived in Leeds from 1985 to 2003 ( now live in Cornwall) so remember quite a few of these. .The one time I knowingly drank and drove was coming out of Stumps when I then drove back to Chapel Allerton . I was stupid..and bloody lucky. Didn't Harvey's have a huge stuffed rabbit in the window at one point ? Once watched my 30 year old mate ( I was 31!) pull in Foxes in Chapel Allerton..smoking a pipe. Worked for a year at the New Roscoe at one point ( down the bottom of town I know..but still miss the old place which is sadly gone). Finally, does anyone remember Hoagy's at the bottom of the Headrow?

    @eugenemorice8545@eugenemorice854519 күн бұрын

  • Thanks, I find your channel very interesting having lived in Leeds since 1973 and remembering many of these places.

    @Robby334@Robby3344 ай бұрын

    • Thank you

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice4 ай бұрын

  • I used to work at Rockshots and the bar below it called Bananas in 1988 through 1990. Great times. Good to see so many old places I used to use. Especially The Alternative and Alternative 2.

    @neilhawkins9017@neilhawkins90175 ай бұрын

    • Thanks Neil

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • An amazing video! More social history/geog videos of the 80/90s please

    @BattlesDiplomacy@BattlesDiplomacy5 ай бұрын

    • Thank you

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Fabulous memories. I was into rock& roll and used to frequent the Whip on Duncan Street and the Palace at weekends that both had rock&roll nights. If I was going out with workmates we would meet at Whitelocks and take it from there frequenting many of the places you mentioned, usually ending up at Chakwals curry house on the side of the Merrion Centre which was very cheap and sold excellent curries. Thanks for the upload, happy days.

    @MegaVector2011@MegaVector201114 күн бұрын

    • Thanks for adding your memories

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice13 күн бұрын

  • One missed Chaplins in the merrion centre. It might have been known as Swiss Cottage. It had cottage windows.

    @pollyester6639@pollyester66393 ай бұрын

  • Great video! You mentioned one of the clubs needs a blue plaque. I think The New Penny, the oldest Gay Bar in Leeds would be a great addition to your compilation. It actually has a blue plaque and offered a sage space for the LGBTQ+ community.

    @aaronwright8406@aaronwright84065 ай бұрын

    • Thanks Aaron, I was joking that The Alternative fast food take away should have a blue plaque, but you have made a great suggestion there.

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Le’Phonegraphique was to the LEFT of that picture and downstairs. I DJayed there. It was sort of in the centre, middle bottom.

    @UTubeAngelique@UTubeAngelique3 ай бұрын

  • Nostalgia overload after watching that. Used to go in sunset and vine early doors mid week with work pals (and future wife). Trebles and a mixer for £1.00. Those were the days, getting off the train at 7pm after an early doors midweek visit absolutely ratted 🥴

    @deanfoster1158@deanfoster11585 ай бұрын

    • Thanks Dean

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

    • Brilliant...Sunset and Vine....in for about 6.30pm on a Wednesday, emerge absolutely rattled on trebles and off to The News nightclub....great days

      @simonrhodes848@simonrhodes84810 күн бұрын

  • Brilliant, thank you so much for bringing back such good memories. ……….

    @karengill8234@karengill82345 ай бұрын

    • Thank you Karen

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • We must be of a similar age....Cullens,best memories. Thanks

    @rodneyhull9764@rodneyhull97645 ай бұрын

    • Yes, good times. Thank you

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Great stuff...was hoping for the Dutchess Pub...live music.

    @melvinturner6654@melvinturner66544 ай бұрын

    • I planned to include it Melvin and even videoed outside it, but I decided to include it in a future video.

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice4 ай бұрын

    • @GeogJuice That would be great,although when I posted comment I immediately thought its not quite a night club...more live music band place. Sadly there's lots you can do on Pubs going.You would think that a Pub such as The Victoria, just down from lgi would be listed, the brass bar rails in the shape of elephants and the old style layout should be of national importance .Love your work,doing a great job 👏 👍

      @melvinturner6654@melvinturner66544 ай бұрын

  • I remember, (I think it was called, The King Charles) on Lands Lane opposite Queens Arcade. it was on a corner under Schofields department store where now stands Foot Asylum

    @josephbryanmitchell5938@josephbryanmitchell59385 ай бұрын

    • There is a picture of it on Leodis.

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • I saw Bad Manners at the Bali Hai (87?) Loved Phonos and the News

    @reddishtykes@reddishtykes14 күн бұрын

  • Great vid… brilliant memories

    @Pelt101@Pelt1015 ай бұрын

    • Thank you

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Thank you for your time and effort. Very interesting, even for a foreigner.

    @mollepolle@mollepolle5 ай бұрын

    • Thank you

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • fabulous as always, thank you

    @Smegmeister@Smegmeister5 ай бұрын

    • Thanks Ben

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Great video, my family moved from America to run a pub called "The Chained Bull" in the 90s. Are you gonna do a video on former 90s pubs? I miss that place, and Leeds very much. Again, great job!!

    @badgermoring5290@badgermoring52905 ай бұрын

    • Thank you. I considered including The Chained Bull in this video. I will look to include it in a future one.

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

    • Yes! Chained Bull R.I.P

      @julian-xd6iz@julian-xd6iz5 ай бұрын

    • Sadly the Chained Bull in Moortown is no more. Home of the "Beckies" ( Jewish lasses out and about on the lash) and opposite a decent bagel shiop as I recall which used to open in the early hours of Sunday morning !!

      @eugenemorice8545@eugenemorice854519 күн бұрын

  • Love your videos more plz keep up the great work

    @johnmackintosh3952@johnmackintosh39525 ай бұрын

    • Thank you John

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Great night in Len’s Bar after Leeds beat QPR in FA Cup QFs

    @iansaxby729@iansaxby7295 ай бұрын

    • I was at that game Ian, but couldn't get in.

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Hells bells, that was a blast from the past! My friends and I would often take a change of clothes to work on Fridays and go straight out from work! We’d make a beeline for something to eat, then do the rounds at a few pubs then, over the years, visit so many of the clubs mentioned here! The wasn’t a great deal of trouble back then and knife culture was unheard of. Crack was something you found in a mirror. Spice was a a bag of sweets from the corner shop, and smack was something you had on the back of your legs as a kid! How things have changed.

    @juliehubbard9752@juliehubbard97523 ай бұрын

  • Another magnificent vid 🏆

    @leegoodwin3466@leegoodwin34665 ай бұрын

    • Thank you Lee

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Did you mention Big Lil's!!!!? I met some interesting people in there and some very accomodating ladies!

    @user-qk7vv3mx1s@user-qk7vv3mx1s5 ай бұрын

    • Big Lil's was bloody terrifying...

      @eugenemorice8545@eugenemorice854519 күн бұрын

  • A very interesting and nostalgic video. Many thanks from an old Leeds Lad.

    @magnuscarter9195@magnuscarter91955 ай бұрын

    • Thank you

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Thanks for the old memories, i knew Leeds City Centre (town) like the back of my hand in the 80s. Now i can hardly find a parking spot let alone anything else. Town has gone for the likes of me, ho well it was wicked whilst it lasted.

    @markmjames66mj@markmjames66mj3 ай бұрын

  • Wow that took me back

    @tonyhobson9677@tonyhobson9677Ай бұрын

  • Nice one. I suggest additions. The Guilford on the headrow with its snooker upstairs and many pool tables down stairs. Decimated now. Just a bar. Leeds poly disco followed by chip butty over the road at Terrys all time now demolished. The Vic of course behind the town hall.

    @jeremylister89@jeremylister892 ай бұрын

    • Thanks for the suggestions Jeremy, I intend bringing out a follow up later in the year.

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice2 ай бұрын

  • Oscars - my first pub that I started drinking in aged 16. I was working at IBM next door and often we'd head there after work. Being only 16, there was no chance of me getting served so all the other "grown ups" would buy my drinks. Happy days.

    @DroneShots_UK@DroneShots_UK22 күн бұрын

    • Thanks for sharing your memories. I liked Oscars and I was 16 when I first visited it. Good times.

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice22 күн бұрын

  • Great vid…Adam and Eve’s was one door down from that shown …now the Hifi Club.

    @cariboorombald110@cariboorombald1105 ай бұрын

    • Thank you, I see now.

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Thanks for bringing back memories of Leeds nightlife for me. Do you remember The News nightclub in the Queen's Hotel?

    @michaeldibb@michaeldibb5 ай бұрын

    • Thanks Michael, and yes, I do. I am not sure if it was open in 1987, which was the year I based this video on - I used the 1987 phone book as a source. I remember going in, around that time though. The revolving dance floor was fun!

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Had many a nice evening in the Way finder Pub. Would receive comments about the large Cabbages that we bought from the market and placed beside us on the seats. Happy days.

    @TheCrimsonAvenger@TheCrimsonAvenger5 ай бұрын

    • :)

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Wow I wondered what had happened to “ the box office “ I worked at … General Wade!! Off Merrion hotel

    @claire9547@claire95473 ай бұрын

  • Marc Almond, Tainted Love, Warehouse.

    @UTubeAngelique@UTubeAngelique3 ай бұрын

  • Blast from the past this is. Jesus i've been in the vast majority of these..some good and erm some not so much!

    @user-qk7vv3mx1s@user-qk7vv3mx1s5 ай бұрын

  • Peter O’Toole used to go to The Adelphi pub.

    @UTubeAngelique@UTubeAngelique3 ай бұрын

  • At 2am it was time to go to terry's all time cafe(caf) .

    @anthonymorrison2117@anthonymorrison21173 ай бұрын

  • 1980’s Living in the Plastic Age ! ( I’ve also compiled the full 70’s yrs & decade too 🤓🎶👌🏻) 1980 CHART HITS ( Everything...All In Weekly Chart Entry Order ) kzhead.info/channel/PLbO1DMzDZcphfjcVulJ5jsP3oHslGjCuc.html

    @OLDGOLDDREAMER@OLDGOLDDREAMER5 ай бұрын

    • Thanks Andrew. There's some great songs in that playlist!

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice5 ай бұрын

  • Fforde Grene - Dire Straits, Buzz Cocks, Hank Wangford…

    @UTubeAngelique@UTubeAngelique3 ай бұрын

  • Alternative 1 and Alternative 2.

    @UTubeAngelique@UTubeAngelique3 ай бұрын

  • See.you.filmed.at.the.most.busiest.time.ghost.town 😊

    @richardpaterson4627@richardpaterson46276 күн бұрын

  • The Conservatory and the Observatory.

    @UTubeAngelique@UTubeAngelique3 ай бұрын

  • Night Rider, should been Fight Rider 😂

    @JohnnyWaterbucket@JohnnyWaterbucket23 күн бұрын

  • Fight rider bus service if my memory serves me right 🤣

    @artisansportsman8950@artisansportsman89502 ай бұрын

  • Barry on Briggate, AKA Rip Off on Briggate.

    @UTubeAngelique@UTubeAngelique3 ай бұрын

  • I was a Whitelocks man

    @allotmentuk1303@allotmentuk130321 күн бұрын

  • What happened to the gaiety

    @martinwalker7452@martinwalker74523 ай бұрын

    • It has been knocked down Martin

      @GeogJuice@GeogJuice3 ай бұрын

  • OMG ! Everyone mentioned I visited. We also went to the Bank, that too was downstairs. I grew up thru youth club,to Goth, to regular niteclub & finally to .... 'God I feel old & look like a perve stood here these days' 🫣😳 xh

    @helenwalker5432@helenwalker54323 ай бұрын
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