Fforde Grene
The Fforde Grene was a music venue located in Harehills, Leeds, England. It hosted many bands before they became famous, including The Sex Pistols, U2, Simple Minds, Dire Straits, Def Leppard and The Rolling Stones. Built in 1938, the pub closed its doors in July 2004 and is now a supermarket. The pub took its name from a director of Melbourne's Brewery who could trace his ancestry back to a 13th-century relative called Richard del Fforde who lived in a house called Fford Grene. The patrons of Fforde Grene were an inspiration for Chumbawamba's classic "Tubthumping."
The name of the pub was to lend itself to a tram stop on the proposed Leeds Supertram project. This project was abandoned in 2004 due to spiralling costs.
