Your YEP asked our facebook group to share memories of the city watering hole where they enjoyed their first tipple (in many cases underage!). Hundreds responded with the pubs they first ventured in and which drink they were served which to this day lives long in the memory. READ MORE: 33 closed Leeds pubs which will stir fond memories for drinkers LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook

7. Fforde Grene
"Fforde Grene, pint of Tetley Mild, they’d run out of bitter, 1975!" - John Gilmartin. "Fforde Grene! 14 years old, in the man o war bar! Double Diamond.1s an 10d!" - Alan Fogal. | Tony Johnson Photo: Tony Johnson

8. The White Rose
"The White Rose on Tong Road. Can't believe I drank it lager and black. Hate the stuff now. Haven't drank lager for donkeys years" - Gina Whelan. | YPN Photo: YPN

9. Whitelocks
"Whitelocks and it was a port and lemon" - Julie Ironmonger | YPN Photo: YPN

10. Yates's Wine Lodge
"Pint of lager, Yates's Wine Lodge under Bond Strreet. It was bigger than me!" - Darren Wheatley. | YPN Photo: YPN

11. Royal Oak
"Half a lager and black in the Royal Oak at Kippax, on the way home from the disco at Brigshaw School" - Janette Padley. | Mark Bickerdike Photo: Mark Bickerdike

12. Garden Gate
"Garden Gate, Hunslet. Was an apprentice at Henry Berry’s. Got taste every dinner time. Lost apprenticeship but got taste for Tetleys at 15. Never looked back since." - Stephen Dodsworth. | Mark Bickerdike Photo: Mark Bickerdike


