A Leeds pub once hailed as a “Victorian gem” has closed down and is to be converted into a Tesco Express supermarket. The Queen on Burley Road was one of a trio of pubs in the Kirkstall area of Leeds dubbed “The Big Three” because they were all built in the mid-1800s during the reign of Queen Victoria. The other two were the Cardigan Arms and the Rising Sun, both on Kirkstall Road. Today, only the Cardigan Arms survives as a public house. The Queen thrived through periods of massive change in Leeds, such as the erection and demolition of back-to-back houses and the growth and decline of industry, including a power station. In the 1960s, the boom in media expansion saw the construction of Yorkshire Television’s studios nearby -– with The Queen used as a watering hole for YTV staff. The Queen was a Tetley house until the tied-house pub empires of breweries like Tetley were legislated out of existence. The intention was to break up pub-owning monopolies and create variety and choice for customers. Instead, tens of thousands of pubs fell into the hands of pub companies, creating even bigger monopolies
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