The Woodpecker

Tel. 0532 · Post by **Tel. 0532** » Sat 09 Feb, 2008 12:18 am

Knocked down to make way for the A64/A58M fly-over near the DSS building coming into Leeds Not a great pub but a real Leeds landmark.

liits · Post by **liits** » Sat 09 Feb, 2008 2:13 am

liits' partner said that his post was disgusting and that he should remove it. So I have done.

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Sat 09 Feb, 2008 10:59 am

The Woodpecker was a pub you went past on the 67 / 68 bus on your way in to town.

Laz · Post by **Laz** » Fri 07 Mar, 2008 3:14 pm

zip55 wrote: The Woodpecker was a pub you went past on the 67 / 68 bus on your way in to town. No I think you are wrong. The 67/68 went down Easterly road and down Rounday Road - past the Fforde Green and the Gaiety.The one that went from Seacroft past the Woodpecker was the Number 16. (and the 11) I used both on my way into town - happy days

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Fri 07 Mar, 2008 4:53 pm

the woodpecker was pulled down in the late 80s,the old one has been gone donkeys years.the flyover was built in the early 70s.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Fri 07 Mar, 2008 5:03 pm

Here's a Leodis pic of the Original Woodpecker - the later pub was rebuilt on the opposite side of York Road.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Fri 07 Mar, 2008 5:06 pm

An even earlier pic from Leodis - I would guess from c1900. The building at the left is another pub - the 'Shoulder of Mutton'.

Post by **chameleon** » Fri 07 Mar, 2008 6:19 pm

wiggy wrote: the woodpecker was pulled down in the late 80s,the old one has been gone donkeys years.the flyover was built in the early 70s. Sounds right to me wiggy - it survived and sat, dwarfed, next to the flyover for many years.

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Sat 08 Mar, 2008 8:35 am

Remember the fly over only originally went out of Leeds. Coming into Leeds you had to come off the a64 at the Woodpecker junction and then join the a64(m) which then became almost immediately the a58(m). I can't remember the exact time line but the flyover was probably completed inbound around the time the Kremlin was being built.

Post by **chameleon** » Sat 08 Mar, 2008 11:41 am

tyke bhoy wrote: Remember the fly over only originally went out of Leeds. Coming into Leeds you had to come off the a64 at the Woodpecker junction and then join the a64(m) which then became almost immediately the a58(m). I can't remember the exact time line but the flyover was probably completed inbound around the time the Kremlin was being built. Quarry house opened in 1993; The inner Ring Road at that point was there long before that.Here are a couple of links witha little bit of the history:http://www.leedsconstructionlink.co.uk/ ... mleeds.htm