Comments on: 54 Gillygate http://yorkstories.co.uk/54-gillygate-formerly-bay-horse-pink-pony-etc/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Penny http://yorkstories.co.uk/54-gillygate-formerly-bay-horse-pink-pony-etc/#comment-717022 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:26:34 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=15312#comment-717022 And his father Frederick Lancaster (husband of my grand aunt) was running it earlier according to the 1911 UK census,

]]> By: Jim Evans http://yorkstories.co.uk/54-gillygate-formerly-bay-horse-pink-pony-etc/#comment-716369 Wed, 24 May 2023 03:36:36 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=15312#comment-716369 My grandfather James, Percival Lancaster ran this pub in the early, to mid 1930s.

They had 5 daughters, Mildred, Dorothy, Joan, Kitty Margaret and Marjory, sadly all deceased

From York, they moved to Stockton on Tees, where they ran the Conservative club in Portrack, before moving to Whitby in 1940.

]]> By: Paul Green http://yorkstories.co.uk/54-gillygate-formerly-bay-horse-pink-pony-etc/#comment-690121 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:19:36 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=15312#comment-690121 I can remember the Bay Horse at 54 Gillygate in the early 1980’s. It was a Stone’s pub (Sheffield brewery part of Bass) and a new couple (the Allis’s I recall, they had come from the Light Horseman pub on Fulford Rd., set out with the intention to make it a leading live music pub with real ale in York – it had a large-ish function room at the back with a small serving bar. It really took off – the draught Bass was excellent, his serving staff came from the Ripon & St. John College, and Wednesday nights (I’m sure it was Wednesday) was jazz funk night with a local 5-piece band called ‘American Express’ who played ‘jazz/funk/fusion’ They were so good that in 1982 they released a 12 inch single and an LP, both of which I’ve still got (but no turntable to play them on for many years). I think there was an independent record shop further down Gillygate who stocked their record (Pinnacle Records). But such was the success of the pub that the landlord couldn’t keep up with the demand for hand pulled beer so they were replaced with electric pumps for keg beer and I’m afraid my loyalty went elsewhere, and I think the band went off to London to try and get a recording contract. 40 years on always wondered what happened to the pub (and what happened to the band?)

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