Grove Inn, Holbeck.
Posted: Wed 15 Nov, 2017 9:48 pm
Though I am occasionally recently in the Bridgewater Place area I have gone no further than its Victoria Road frontage and Water Lane side so I decided to go a bit further which I did on November 14 2017. Going on Victoria Road shortly after passing Bridgewater Place I was quite surprised to see an old looking pub that I was not aware of, namely the Grove Inn. A side wall of the pub is seen from Victoria Road but the pub's main entry/exit is on Back Row with a lesser entry/exit on the Stone Row side road off Back Row.
I don't know how long the pub has been there as it is not labelled on an 1921 1:2,500 map I've seen but it could be that it is not labelled due to the map scale. I've found an image in the Leodis website that has Grove Inn on a photo taken on 12 September 1938. It is good but surprising that an old pub still survives in such a massively developed area. It is rather though dwarfed by such as the very near Bridgewater Place. I wonder if anyone has any old recollections of the Grove Inn, Holbeck?
I have added 3 photos that I took on November 14 2017. The first shows a view of Grove Inn on Stone Row with the towering Bridgewater Place in the rear. The second is a view of the Back Row frontage of Grove Inn with Stone Row just off on the left. The third shows a view of the side wall of the inn taken from Victoria Road.
I don't know how long the pub has been there as it is not labelled on an 1921 1:2,500 map I've seen but it could be that it is not labelled due to the map scale. I've found an image in the Leodis website that has Grove Inn on a photo taken on 12 September 1938. It is good but surprising that an old pub still survives in such a massively developed area. It is rather though dwarfed by such as the very near Bridgewater Place. I wonder if anyone has any old recollections of the Grove Inn, Holbeck?
I have added 3 photos that I took on November 14 2017. The first shows a view of Grove Inn on Stone Row with the towering Bridgewater Place in the rear. The second is a view of the Back Row frontage of Grove Inn with Stone Row just off on the left. The third shows a view of the side wall of the inn taken from Victoria Road.