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Date of photo: 2013	Picture source: Peter Clarke
The Friendly Inn was situated at 2 Aireworth Street. This 18th century inn is now open under the name of 'Percy Vears', after the publican's grandfather who was a champion boxer in th 1920s/1930s.
My one and only visit there was in the early 1980s when I was in Leeds for the Great British Beer Festival. A group of us went to Keighley one evening to try some Timothy Taylor's pubs. Arriving about 6 p.m. we wandered around and the first Taylor's pub we came to was the Friendly. The door was open so we went in only to be shouted at by a woman that the pub didn't open to 7. After this reception, it did strike me as being the most inappropriately named pub I have ever been to.
Colin Price (April 2015)
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