Past And Present In The Streets Of Leeds....

An afternoon wander around the centre of Leeds taking in some familiar old haunts and more recent additions to the city's drinking establishments....I went to Leeds the other day for a close season catch up over a few beers with some of the lads I go to football with. A trip to Leeds is not unusual for me, but for some of my companions it was a rare visit to a city which for all of us is less than 20 miles from home. And it set me off thinking back to when I lived in the city in the 1980s as a newcomer and how different the pub scene in the city was then was compared to now. We visited 5 different places over the course of a few hours on a Saturday afternoon, all of them pretty close to the railway station. Of those, only two had been around in the 1980s, the other three having appeared at different points within the last 15 years or so. The Leeds real ale scene back then was dominated by the locally-brewed Tetleys with aromas from the brewery regularly wafting across the city. That…