I wasn't around when it was closed/knocked down but always seemed busy when I was in. I'd imagine big running costs but shame, as I recall it being a proper boozer despite its student patronage.
Despite being a bit of a regular while I was at school and performing at the Thursday night Blues Club in my first gig out of school I don’t recall ever going from Haworth to Spiders, but I used to walk home from Spiders past Haworth and it’s nigh on impossible explaining to people who haven’t been there that the footpath went through a gate and then OVER a chemical works on a steel walkway. In these days of heightened security you can’t imagine it, and 30ish years later I can’t remember exactly where it was (was that the tanners?) but it was somewhere between Bankside and Bev Road. Absolutely bizarre place and I can still remember the smell and the steam, even if the rest is a bit sketchy...
Holmes Hall tannery and Crown Paints are at Bankside/Air Street (which is the most foul smelling corner in Hull) corner, so that’s right area.
Bit of a time warp these days. Still a decent enough boozer but like many of it's time lacking in numbers. First used it as a teenager, very late 60's when you could always get a drink up stairs where there was usually a group playing at week ends. It's hey day was probably mid 80's when a lot of football lads used to meet in there on a Sunday night, I mean players, not supporters. Hockneys, Piper, Gardeners, and Haworth itself. Our kid once had a set too with one of the landlords ( who I finished up working with in later life) The landlord sold him a pint right on last orders then tried to snatch his glass off him when he put it down on the bar so our kid nutted him. We stopped going in after that.
Slightly off topic, but were you a regular at Spiders around that time ? Me and the Mrs were and we contributed last year to help publish the book " Spiders - Tales from behind the web " Wondered if you knew about it, or indeed, featured in the book ? Cheers
We used to go there in the mid- and late-60s; sitting in the corner by the stairs, we'd be amused by the rolling fights a-coming down the stairs from the 'function' room. (The revolving corner doors were brilliant...entertaining watching drunks get trapped in them - I even saw one guy who couldn't actually make it out into the street)
Used to do the Haworth, Gardeners, Beverley Road circuit when it was in its hey day. Always ensured I was last going into Haworth, because if you went first your twatty mates used to stop the revolving door and trap you in the middle. I actually watched Liverpool lose the Champions League final in Haworth this year. We were originally going to watch it in the newly refurbished Gardeners but was turned away as it was already full to capacity. Haworth looks like it needs some money spending on it (seem to remember it being in the HDM about possibly closing due to costs of maintaining listed building) It used to be £1 a drink on a Thursday night too, so Fridays were unproductive for a while....
I used to run a pool team, and we played there one year. A mate of a young lad in our pool team thought it was a good idea to drink a full bottle of warm red wine in around 20 minutes and then decorated the floor area around the pool table making it a slip hazard.....happy days
Champions League final with around 80% of people uni students from out of town. Most bars with TV's will have been full anywhere in the country plus the pub in question had a £1m re-fit and was reopening...anyway Im not gonna bite
Virtual tour of Gardeners since refurb if you fancy a nosey (scroll to bottom of page) https://www.thegardenersarmshull.co.uk/findus
Come on Castro, every pub in the country would be full for an English team in the Champions League final.
