The Harewood Arms stood on Brewery Bank on the corner of Acklam Road across the road from the Bon Lea Hotel, Thornaby. The pubs and nearby houses were demolished when the construction of the A66 began c1980.
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Many Thursday afternoon shift at Thornaby Locomotive depot, difficulty finding staff, normally could be found either in the Harewood Arms or Bon Lea. Just about the time of Top of the Pops on TV mid 70s to early 80s.
Still that was then, not get away with it today!!
I was born in Thornaby, and lived in 5 QUEEN street with my brothers, ERIC DILLY and WILLY ROBINSON. We went to QUEEN STREET SCHOOL then ARTHUR HEAD ended up at the BON LEA FOUNDRY when I left school when you went on a pub crawl it started at the GOLDEN FLEECE THEN all the pubs up to the sadlers boy where you drunk AT THE END OF IT. DANCING WAS MAINLY DONE AT the MAISON DE DANCE in Stockton ,or the Astoria in Middlesborough. Great times I miss em.
Are you the Alan Robinson who was involved in football & was your brother Eric a plater at Head Wrighsons Bridgeyard, Thornaby. Did you know Eric McKenzie a patternmaker at the Bon Lea Foundry?
My dad worked at JD Whites. He started in approx 1965-6. Worked there until his retirement in the mid 90’s.
My Dad and Grandad also worked at JD Whites. My Grandad used to go in the Harwood Arms after work sometimes.
My parents were licencees of the Bon Lea during early 60’s. Mandale Road always seemed really busy to me as a youngster. We could see right to the top of The Avenue. I seem to recall the Harewood Arms licencees were called Laughlin (not sure of spelling) and they had two sons.
Got a Vauxhall tankard o.a.p darts league winner from the Harewood Arms would it mean anything to anybody?
This is probably the first pub I ever had a drink in in 1964 when I was fifteen and had not long started work at j d whites at the bottom of harewood bank on the left of the picture, the occasion would have been the pre- Christmas drink , although we had to return to work afterwards to finish the working day (probably Christmas Eve). No early finish then.
I remember being taken in a few pubs in Thornaby as a little girl. My mam would ask if it was o.k. and usually it was on the promise that I sat quietly. I remember going in one that looked like this. As you walked in that door, the bar was directly opposite, almost the full length of the room, with cheese and onion buns wrapped in cling film piled up at the end. And round the corner, to the left as you walked in, behind the door, I remember two old men playing ‘push-penny’. Could this have been the Harewood Arms?
I have many recollections of both the Harewood Arms and the Bon Lea in the early 70’s & 80’s, these two establishments being locals for the many railwaymen that called in either going to, or from work, at Thornaby Depot and Tees Yard, at one time the Harewood Arms looked like the mess room on the depot.
Better known as the Railway Club, worked in Depot early sixties use to go in Harewood on Thursdays while waiting for 2.00pm for wages, if on early shifts