Andy Hutchinson reflects on the Lloyds Arms on Duke Street, the Leeds City Centre pub which was demolished to make way for the inner city loop road.
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00:00Hi and welcome to the latest edition of Leeds Then and Today with me Andrew Hutchinson.
00:16It was the historic pub demolished in the 1990s in the name of progress.
00:30The Lloyds Arms on Duke Street welcomed generations of revellers stretching back to 1817 before
00:36it was demolished in 1994 to make way for the inner city loop road.
00:52By the early 1930s the Lloyds Arms was run by landlord Frank Blackburn.
00:58The railway bridge runs across the centre of the photo with the line running trains
01:02to and from Leeds City Station.
01:05Tram lines run along Duke Street, the church is to the right.
01:10Bostock Circus was held on what was spare ground which is now the bus station.
01:16The landlord of the Lloyds Arms at the time allowed the animals to be washed and hosed
01:21down in his stable yard.
01:25Last Orders was called in 1994.
01:28The pub had welcomed generations of drinkers down the decades before it all ended abruptly
01:34all in the name of progress.
01:38The Lloyds Arms was demolished as a sacrifice to help keep the city on the move.
01:44Nowadays there are lots of alternatives for people and revellers to find their food and
01:49drink fix in the city centre.
01:52Thousands of motorists make their way along this route every day without even knowing
01:57the pub was ever there.