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DUNFORD
BRIDGE -
stopped off here once while cycling
* STANHOPE ARMS - Last
visit: 2003 - a large pub with a lounge and dining room plus a couple of
smaller more basic rooms. I had a snack and a couple of pints of Black Sheep while
chatting to fellow cyclists I met in there.
SHEFFIELD
-
have visited the city for a pub crawl on several occasions
* BATH HOTEL - Last visit:
2006 - an old traditional pub with an interesting interior,
2 rooms round a central bar serving several real ales including
from local breweries such as Abbeydale Photo
* DADA - Last visit: 2011 -
an unusual
place! An old darkly painted brick building with its name painted
several times in large letters, inside is equally dark with several
rooms with high ceilings, bare brickwork and various art on display.
The small bar in the centre sells various Thornbridge ales and foreign
beers. photo
* DEVONSHIRE CAT - Last visit:
2011 - large
modern style bar at the bottom of an apartment building, one bright
open room with big windows and wooden floor. There's a vast selection
of real ales, many from small local breweries including a very nice
house beer. Also a massive choice of bottled lagers if that's your
thing, food not the cheapest but good. photo website
* FAGANS - Last visit: 2010 -
a down to earth but comfy pub on a busy main road, inside there's
one small main room with dark wood paneling and lots of aircraft
paintings. Beers were Tetley and Abbeydale photo
* FAT CAT - Last visit: 2006
- fantastic
little pub with basic, cosy public bar and a separate more comfortable
lounge, both with real fires. Also an upstairs room. Many ales including
from the Kelham Island Brewery which is next door. Various cat related
items including a fine real cat snoozing by the fire. Photo
website
* FROG
& PARROT - Last visit: 2006
- quite
a large corner bar with high ceilings, flooring on different levels
and hidden corners etc. Seems quite a trendy place in the university
area with several real ale.
* HENRYS
- Last visit: 2011 - large
bar in a corner building with big windows. A high ceiling, vast
TV screen (which was showing 'It's a Wonderful Life' on my visit
- well it was nearly Xmas!), open plan but quite ornate and bright.
The long bar has a good choice of ales including from various interesting
breweries, and quite cheap for this sort of place.
photo
*
KELHAM ISLAND TAVERN - Last
visit: 2006 - comfortable traditional pub with L shaped
main room and a dining room at the back. Large number of handpumps
selling many interesting and local beers, also a small but good
value lunch menu Photo
* RED DEER - Last visit: 2010 - locals
pub with long narrow open out interior including a raised area at
the back. A friendly chap serving and a good choice of ales from
more common brews to interesting beers including from little Yorkshire
breweries photo
website
* RED LION - Last visit: 2006
- not far from station, the main lounge looked recently refurbished
and there were a few real ales.
* RUTLAND ARMS - Last visit:
2011 - an
old hotel building on a street corner, inside is a one roomed traditional
basic boozer with dark wood, fireplace and an interesting display
of old beer cans! Several ales from the Blue Bee brewery plus other
local beers, and good food. photo website
* SHEFFIELD TAP - Last visit: 2011
- recently
opened real ale bar in the railway station buildings, one interesting
high ceilinged room with tiled walls, big curved windows and 8?
ales all from the Thornbridge brewery. A corridor behind the bar
leads to several other more cosy rooms. photo
* THREE CRANES - Last visit:
2010 - comfy
city centre pub with rooms round a large central curved bar, a couple
of ales including Taylors Landlord photo
* THREE TUNS - Last visit:
2010 - an
interesting wedge shaped building, inside there's seating in the
narrowing wedge end up some steps and an open L shaped room round
the bar. A few ales including a local guest beer, friendly staff
and a cat (which was also quite friendly) photo
- also went on another pub crawl here in early 1990s which took
in many city centre pubs but I cant remember them in any detail.
WEST
YORKSHIRE:
BATLEY
- I've
got off the train here once to cross the road to this excellent
bar...
* CELLAR BAR - Last visit: 2009
- down a few steps beneath an impressive stone building opposite
the station is a dimly lit bar with bare brickwork and wood, beams
and a flagstone floor. There's an open area by the bar in the middle,
at the far end is a pool table and jukebox and at the front is seating
by a large mirror and a TV showing sports. There was also an old
cat wandering about! A small choice of good ales from Copper Dragon,
Elland and another small brewery I now forget. photo
website
.
But
sadly in summer 2010 it closed then reopened under new ownership
- no idea what it's like now
CHAPEL
ALLERTON (Leeds) -
someone
I know once lived here, went to these a couple of times:
*
QUEENS ARMS - Last visit: 2007
- big pub on main road with a couple of real ales and food. Very
large open room inside, but broken up into different areas with
sofas etc and an outside drinking area plus bowling green. photo
* REGENT - Last visit: 2007
- local pub on a side street off main road. 3 real ales incl Black
Sheep & Cally IPA, a busy lively pub with a mixed crowd of people,
jukebox, TVs and interesting layout - bigger than it looks with
a couple of different rooms spread out either side of the bar.
DEWSBURY
- on various occasions I've got off a train here to go to the bar
on the station, and once had a stroll across town to...
* LEGGERS Last visit: 2009 -
quite a way from the station but worth the walk. A converted building
next to the canal marina with a large outside seating area next
to the boats. The bar is upstairs and is a long room with bare brickwork
and beams, lots of transport and pub memorabilia, a pool table and
small TV at one end and the bar at the other which sells several
real ales including on my visit from Yorkshires Leeds and Roosters
breweries photo
* WEST RIDING REFRESHMENT ROOMS Last
visit: 2012 - a fine real ale bar within the attractive stone
station buidlings, inside is the main narrow bar room plus a couple
of separate seating areas at either end, one with a real fire and
jukebox and all decorated with railway and brewery items on the
walls. Plenty of ales from Timothy Taylors, Dewsbury's own Anglo
Dutch brewery and other mostly local micro breweries. Food including
great all day breakfasts, for more see their website
photo
HALIFAX
-
been once (well twice in the same day) while changing trains, had
time for a quick visit to these 2 good pubs, both a short walk from
the station
* PUMP HOUSE - Last visit:
2008
- double
fronted pub with a room and bar to either side and a large range
of real ale, many from Yorkshire and North East breweries on my
visit. Seemed a nice down to earth place with friendly service.
photo
*
THREE PIGEONS - Last visit: 2011
- just
beyond the Pump House is this Ossett pub which sells a number of
their beers plus several others from micro breweries. An interesting
and unspoilt interior with a circular hall which houses the bar,
off which are 3 small traditional rooms which include real fires.
photo
HAWORTH -
been in several pubs here over the years but may have got a couple
of them mixed up so hope below is correct.
* BLACK BULL - Last visit: mid 90s
- remember it being a rather average place beer, food and
character wise.
* FLEECE - Last visit: 2005 - Timothy
Taylors pub on the main street with range of their beers, quite
large and opened out inside but also seperate rooms. Only been in
for a quick pint.
* KINGS ARMS - Last visit: 2002 ?
- pub I enjoyed the most in Haworth. At the top of the main
street, a Jennings pub ? with good value food in a nice stone and
nice basic down to earth feel.
* OLD WHITE LION - Last visit: mid
90s - think this was one I ate in once, also at the top
of the main street. I ended up having to eat in a restaurant bit
which doesn't suit me though sure the food was good. Not the most
exciting beer. Sorry if this is wrong, it was many years ago.
* ROYAL OAK - Last visit: 2003
- opposite the KWVR station, only been in once and sat outside.
Think it sold Black Sheep and is your typical basic pub.
HEADINGLEY -
made a brief stop here one evening to visit the Arcadia. Also had
the misfortune of being here on another occasion as detailed below!
*
ARCADIA -
Last
visit: 2008
-
a continental style cafe-bar [a Market Town Tavern bar] selling
a choice of ales from Yorkshire micro breweries - Leeds, Outlaw,
York & Acorn on my visit - plus various European beers. It's
in a row of shops in an ugly 1960s arcade but inside is a small
cosy modern room with the bar at the back and more seating upstairs.
Friendly punters and staff and good service.
photo
Market
Town website
*
ORIGINAL OAK -
Last
visit: 2008
-
while in Headingley I was persuaded to have a pint here. Completely
different to Arcadia as it's a vast place and has no real ale.
Downstairs is a large fairly traditional pub with a couple of opened
out rooms, wood paneling, fireplace etc while upstairs a huge second
bar in modern open room which lead to a vast beer garden. Seemed
popular with the local students, fortunately it was August so there
weren't too many around. That's more than can be said of my 2nd
brief visit to Headingley when the area was overrun with young morons
and I was led into the...
*
SKYRACK -
Last
visit: 2009
-
assume it was one a traditional pub or maybe even 2 seperate buildings
but now its a large opened out real ale-less student pub. I'll say
no more about it.
HEBDEN
BRIDGE & NEARBY -
have made a few visits here for a wander round the local hills and
to have a pint or two in these
* ALBERT - Last visit: 2010 - a
locals pub selling ales such as Hobgoblin and Theakstons, sport
on TV. A large partly opened out interior with seperate pool room
* FOX & GOOSE - Last visit: 2011
- the exterior isnt too exciting but the interior is a fantastic
cosy little place. The small basic bar room has a real fire in an
open stone fireplace (usually with dogs lounging infront), ceiling
beams covered in pump clips and a bar at the back with 5 ales from
small breweries including its own house beer. Also 2 other small
rooms, to one side a lounge sometimes used for live music and the
other is a games room. A proper down to earth pub with a lively
friendly atmosphere. There's a small beer garden too on the hillside
reached by climbing stairs inside the pub photos website
* HOLE IN T' WALL - Last visit: 2010
- quite a smart refurbished pub next to the bridge in the
centre of the town, semi open plan rooms either side of the door.
Local ales from Crag Vale brewery plus others . photo
* NEW DELIGHT INN at Jack Bridge, Colden - Last
visit: 2009 - a couple of miles west of HB, this is an old
stone building high up on the hills with 4 cosy little rooms, 2
either side of the bar including a real fire and 2 back rooms, one
with pool table the other with a stove. 5 ales, 2 from the pubs
own Bridestone Brewery and one from another small Yorks. brewery.
Didnt try the food but it looked very good - well worth the walk
up from the town. photo
* RAILWAY - Last visit: 2009 - traditional
town centre locals pub with several rooms including a games room,
TV sports and a real fire in the lounge. 4 ales, with a guest beer
from Castle Rock on my visit photo
* STUBBING WHARF - Last visit: 2011
- large pub west of the town centre in an attractive location
between the river and canal, there are benches right alongside the
towpath out back. Inside is a big partly opened out traditional
room but divided into 2 areas with lots of dark wood, beams and
real fire and often busy with locals, walkers and diners - there's
also a seperate restaurant. Plenty of real ales including small
Yorkshire brewers such as Ossett/Salamander etc. photo website
* WHITE LION (Hebden Bridge) - Last
visit: 2011 - a vast rambling old stone pub in the town centre
with various areas to sit, some for dining. Plenty of handpumps
but just oen ale on when I visited, which was Bombadier photo
* WHITE LION at Heptonstall - Last
visit: 2011 - worth the steep climb up from Hebden, a very
old stone pub with a small cosy bar area, basic games room and a
lounge all with beams, old stonework, fireplace etc. A choice of
beers, when I called in several were from the Springhead brewery.
photo
website
I'll also mention the TRADES CLUB (Last
visit: 2011) which doesnt count for the purposes of my website
as you have to be a member to enter, though I'm not and havent been
asked on my visits (which were with a member!) It has a rather careworn
lounge and large function room and sells a few real ales including
interesting guest beers.
HOLME -
stopped off here on occasions
when cycling
* FLEECE INN - Last
visit: 2007 - stone pub in little hamlet
at bottom of the steep Holme Moss road over the Pennines. Quite
a large opened out interior though still cosy with lots stone, real
fires and seperate seating areas, has Burtonwood beer and a guest
ale. Mixed
crowd of walkers and people
out for lunch. Photo
HOLMFIRTH
- I've visited here a few times for a look round and
a few pints in the following
*
CARNICERIA -
Last
visit: 2010
- relaxed
little cafe bar (also a seperate restaurant area) in the centre
of the village with one narrow room and tables on the pavement outside.
It used to sell a number of intereting real ales, these days the
beer is still very good but now comes from the Nook brewery next
door (this place is also owned by the Nook) photo
website
*
FARMERS ARMS - Last
visit: 2009 - south east of the village
down a narrow lane off the A635, a stone pub with the bar at the
back and several seating areas, has beams, bare stone walls etc.
Also a games area and seating outside. Several ales, Landlord, Adnams,
Copper Dragon and similar on my visit photo
*
HERVEYS BAR - Last
visit: 2011
-
modern style bar but cosy with seating on a couple of levels and
also a large patio area outside. Beers are from Copper Dragon
photo
website
*
THE NOOK (Rose
& Crown)
- Last
visit: 2011 - hidden away behind Victoria
Square. A fine down to earth and lively drinking pub. Several small
rooms in a rambling interior with bare wood and flagstone floors,
pool table and a basic bar room with real fire. 8 ? handpumps
and it now brews its own ales so there are several of those on sale
but also still some guest ales usually from small Yorkshire breweries,
plus food, jukebox (or sometimes live music) and a yard out back
alongside a stream. An excellent place! photos website
*
OLD BRIDGE HOTEL - Last
visit: 2011 - large hotel, seems to
be an old building but modernised and extended outside. The
pub/bar area has a couple of large, comfy traditional rooms with
beams and mostly set out for dining but I didnt have much of a look
round cos I took my pint to sit on the wall outside alongside the
river. And it was a good pint, there's a decent choice of ale including
2 or 3 guest ales from little breweries. photo
website
*
PICTUREDROME BAR - Last
visit: 2011 - in the Picturedrome venue,
but anyone can enter the bar without a ticket to a gig so it's allowed
on my site! I was actually going to a gig so didnt take much notice
of the surroundings, just one room but there are real ales including
one from the Nook brewery
*
SHOULDER OF MUTTON - Last
visit: 2008 - quite a large interior
with a couple of slightly opened out rooms plus a back yard with
benches. Black Sheep and Abbot Ale when I visited..
HORSFORTH
-
know someone who used to live here and when visiting called into
these pubs/bars
*
BRIDGE - Last
visit: 2010 - quite a large locals
pub on a corner, open plan inside round a curved bar and a decent
beer garden. A few ales including a couple from the Leeds brewery.
* OLD KINGS ARMS - Last
visit: 2007 -
large
pub, inside has been gutted to give one large room which was busy
on my one Sat night visit with assorted local youths and sport on
large screen TVs. Not my sort of pub apart from it had several handpumps
including a guest ale from a small Scottish
brewery, which was a bonus.
*
QUEENS ARMS - Last
visit: 2007
-
old whitewashed pub, inside the one
main room are a low ceiling, beams etc. Quite cosy and a few beers
incl Taylors
Landlord
* SAND BAR - Last
visit: 2008 - a modern cafe bar which
appears small but infact stretches back for miles with various rooms
and corners, comfy sofas etc
but sadly no real ale.
*
TOWN STREET TAVERN - Last
visit: 2008 -
another
modern cafe bar style place but this one has an excellent choice
of real ale from various small Yorkshire breweries and also continental
lagers. Busy but relaxing
atmosphere, the room is divided up into a few separate areas with
lots of pump clips and other items on the walls, there's also an
upstairs restaurant and a
small yard outside.
photo
website
HUDDERSFIELD
and area I
visit quite often seeing people I know and have done for years,
though these days I usually stick to a few favourite pubs.
* ALBERT HOTEL - Last visit: 2007
- hidden away near the shopping centre and town hall, an
impressive interior with one narrow room on different levels featuring
a superb curved bar with glasswork and mirrors, plus seperate dining
room at the back. Several handpumps but the beer choice has varied
on my visits, at times there's been a selection from small brewers
while other times it's just been more common ales. Photos
* BLACK BULL - Last visit: mid 2011 -
Lindley, a quite big busy locals pub in an old stone
building, used to call in here in the early 1990s when visiting
a friend. More recently revisited for a birthday do, was still busy,
Sky sports etc, only ale on was Adnams.
* CHERRY TREE - Last visit: 2010
- large, typical modern town centre Wetherspoons bar in an old furniture
showroom with one big open room and a smaller area downstairs, not
attractive and attracts the sort of punters you'd expect in a town
centre W'spoons and at weekends it can be packed. So not a place
I usually go but when I have there's always been good choice of
ales including from small Yorkshire brewers.
* OLD COURT HOUSE - Last visit: mid
90s - a big place in the old court building in town centre
with an upstairs bar. Used to sell a few good beers including it's
own brews and always busy, but not been in for years and believe
it has much changed
* DUSTY MILLER - Last visit: 2008
- Longwood Edge. Pub I've visited occasionally over the years
when seeing a friend who lives nearby. These days the choice of
beer is not as varied as it was, it used to have several ales from
small breweries but on recent visits there's been the likes of Black
Sheep/Landlord/IPA plus maybe one unusual guest. It's still a decent
pub with a couple of comfortable rooms by the bar and 2 separate
pool rooms, always busy with a mix of age groups and a fine view
from the front over the valley below. Photo
* GLOBE - Last visit: mid 90s - Lindley.
Not been in for years, a local pub with pool table and juke box
and sold Stones bitter.
* GROVE - Last visit: 2012
- across the ring road from the bus station, refurbished in 2006
to an excellent well run real ale pub, a relaxing atmosphere and
a vast choice of beer. A tap room to one side of the bar with old
Good Beer Guides to read and a lounge to the other, both with bare
tile floors. Many interesting and changing ales for sale (15 ? handpumps
with a blackboard listing all the beers on offer), also lots of
continental lagers if that's your thing photo
website
* HART - Last visit: 2005 -
large but unremarkable town centre pub only been in once in recent
times. Tetleys and something else beer wise, TV football
* HEAD OF STEAM - Last visit: 2012
- within the grand railway station buildings. Sells a number of
real ales including several changing guest ales from small breweries,
also good value home made food. The two
back rooms are a used as a dining area while at the front are another
two rooms, one with sofas and the other more traditional and publike
but both with lots of railway memrobilia and old adverts etc. Photo
* KINGS HEAD - see the STATION TAVERN
* LINCOLNS - Last visit: mid 90s
- a downstairs bar in the town centre.
* JUNCTION - Last visit: 2008 -
Marsh large pub on a roundabout on the main A640. One bit
open room around the curved bar, but divided up into different sections
including a pool table and an area with comfy seats!. Also a jukebox,
and 4 real ales including Landlord and a couple of guest beers.
* ?? LLOYDS BAR - Last visit: 2005
- don't know if it had another name. A large open plan Lloyds bar,
coupe of real ales but nowt interesting, loud, young people, no
character, not my sort of place!
* NEW INN - Last visit: mid 90s - another
town centre pub can't remember anything about.
* PEN AND COB - Last visit: mid 90s
- as above, though do recall it had a wall of video screens and
me and my mate once got thrown out of here for laughing.
* RAT & RATCHET - Last visit: 2012
- superb real ale pub just over the ring road in the town
centre with more than 10 handpumps, sells beers from Ossett [whose
pub it is]and many other interesting and often local beers, including
these days its own Rat ales too. A cosy and relaxing place, partly
open plan but well divided into a number of 'rooms' on different
levels, lots of bare brick and wood and some very comfy arm chairs.
Jukebox, darts, various rock music posters on the wall and I once
encountered a friendly black cat in here, what more could you want?
photo
* ROSE & CROWN - Last visit: 2008
Golcar. a white ivy covered pub, though not as quaint
inside as it looks with a a big open room, though divided up into
various areas and comfy enough, there's also a large pool room.
It is home of the Golcar brewery, 4 handpumps selling their own
ales plus guests (though on my last visit there was only one Golcar
beer on). It seems a busy locals pub and has large screen TV sports
photo
* SLIP INN - Last visit: 2006
- Longwood - visited briefly, seemed a busy friendly
locals place with sport on TV and a couple of ales
* SPORTSMAN - Last visit: 2011
- refurbished in 2009, a corner pub not far from the station
with a large main room and couple of small cosy side rooms. Quite
traditional in style but also smart with some modern features. A
curved bar with many changing ales mostly from small local breweries. photo website
* SPOTTED COW - Last visit: 2004 -
on A640 Lindley, a big pub with games room but has
no real beer and on my one visit their was karaoke in progress,
both of which meant I didn't enjoy it and I left as soon as I could!
* STAR INN - Last visit: 2010
- Lockwood. a short walk from town centre. A welcoming and
comfortable locals pub with one large room but split into seperate
areas either side of a fireplace with real fire, the large central
bar has many ales from interesting and local breweries andthe ceiling
and bar is decorated with a huge number of pump clips . photo
website
* STATION TAVERN [now named THE KINGS HEAD]- Last
visit: 2011 - in the railway station [is Huddersfield unique
in having 2 real ale pubs on the station platform ?]. A large very
interesting selection of regularly changing beers, always plenty
from Yorkshire so well worth visiting to try new ales. But it is
rather basic and shabby [even by my low standards!] with a big open,
careworn sparcely furnished room which lacks atmosphere when quiet.
There's a stage for live music events and it's much better when
busier - when full of people you dont notice the surroundings so
much! Also has a small snug and a seperate room with a tatty piano.
Photos
* V... ?? - Last visit: 2007 -
modern bar next to the Warehouse, cant remember its name - no real
ale.
* VOX - Last visit: 2009 - a
cafe bar with two floors - one in the basement, a laid back atmosphere
with comfy sofas, decent music but sadly no real ale. It does have
several proper continental lagers though and a big choice of bottled
beers.
* VULCAN - Last visit: 2011 -
a basic locals pub on the edge of the town centre, with pool table,
jukebox and TVs showing sport. A good choice of ales with 4 handpumps
all from small breweries such as Howard Town and Titanic on my visits
* WAPPY SPRINGS - Last visit: 2000
? - near the M62, used to go in now and again for a meal
but it has become a rather posh food place these days.
* WAREHOUSE - Last visit: 2007 -
very large open modern bar, only been in once to watch football,
had handpumps but no ale on.
* ZETLAND - Last visit: 2007
- refurbished pub with one very large open room and a long bar,
has a couple of real ales (one guest), though I have been in when
they've run out of all proper beer. Pool table, sky TV, cheap food
-and a mostly but not entirely young / student type crowd
I've also
been in several others in the town centre during the early-mid 90s
which I can't remember, another pub where I had a meal somewhere
near Outlane and on one occasion ended up in one of those big children's
places with a bear wandering about up near the motorway (not my
choice, was with friends with children)
ILKLEY
-
came here for a stroll on the famous moor and a pint in these pubs
*
BAR T'AT - Last
visit: 2008 another
excellent Market Town Tavern bar so it has their usual cafe bar
style & range of Yorkshire ales [Leeds, Outlaw, GooseEye &
others], continental lagers and food. A wooden floored bar area
up a couple of steps with stools plus a few tables at one end and
also a separate room alongside, light and modern with large windows
and lots of brewery memorabilia and pictures on the walls. A patio
area outside too. photo
website
*
RIVESIDE HOTEL - Last
visit: 2008 - as
its name suggests, this is a hotel by the side of the River Wharfe.
A large stone building next to the park, the public bar is round
the back near the river with a patio area. Inside the bar is quite
modern with sofas and a big screen TV, but also a real fire and
ales included Copper Dragon, Sam Smiths & Tetley. There's an
attached chip shop, child's go kart track and I was joined by an
old black cat which sat on my knee!
*
THE YARD - Last
visit: 2008 hidden away off the road [in a
yard, funnily enough] this is a traditional old stone building but
inside it's a smart modern bar with
leather sofas, bare stone walls and floors etc and a decked patio
out the back. Real ales were from Naylors including it's own house
brew, quite expensive but nice! photo
KEIGHLEY
- been in a couple
of pubs here some time ago but can't remember them
KIRKSTALL
(Leeds) -
passed though here on one of my Leeds visits
* OLD BRIDGE INN Last
visit: 2009 - next to the River Aire with a nice riverside beer garden
reached down some very steep steps inside the pub which also lead to a downstairs
pool room. As for the main bar, well its a basic one roomed pub with two handpumps,
neither of which appeared to have any ale on but upon aksing the rather unfriendly
bloke serving he produced a pint of Landlord from one of them, it was just about
drinkable! photo
*
WEST END HOTEL Last visit: 2009 - stone pub
with an opened out interior, Sky
TV, jukebox etc, nothing too noteworthy but comfy and pleasant enough! 4 real
ales including a couple of guest beers.
LEEDS
- I occasionally visit
a friend in the city and we've been touring its better pubs (and one or two bars
which arent as good!)
* ANGEL Last visit: 2010
- tall narrow Sam Smiths pub off the main shopping street with 3 ? floors
including a small basic bar downstairs and various rooms with comfy sofas, also
seating in the alleyway outside. photo
*
ADELPHI Last visit: 2010 - large multi roomed
Victorian pub with an interesting interior, high ceilings, lots of wood, ornate
windows and fireplaces etc. Includes a more basic bar room and couple of larger
rooms with sofas etc, 3 ? ales including on my last visit a couple from Leeds
Brewery, though very expensive. It didnt seem right these locally brewed ales
cost here than the lagers photo website
* BREWERY TAP Last visit: 2009 - a new
cafe bar near the station, modern stylish and smart (unlike myself) but as it
is owned by Leeds Brewery it has the range of their ales photo
website
* CUTHBERT BRODRICK
- Last visit: 2008 - large modern Wetherspoons
pub with outdoor seating area overlooking Millennium Square and a couple of good
guests among the ale choice on my visit.
* DUCK & DRAKE Last
visit: 2007 - a big choice of ales including many from Yorkshire in a
basic 2 room pub. Not what you'd call a cosy place with a few tables round a large
rather empty main room with bare floors though has a jukebox and real fire, the
smaller back room has TV showing sports. A no nonsense drinking pub really, though
I did encounter some nonsense in here once in the form of a violent irrational
nutter. Photo
* ELDON -
Last visit: 2008 - quite large corner pub near the
University so a student type crowd, was busy on my visit with people watching
football on the large screen TVs so I couldnt really explore the place but seems
a semi open plan wooden interior and it had a few real ales including guests.
* FAB CAFE -
Last visit: 2008 - cult TV programme themed bar,
with replica darleks and such like. More of a club then a pub, need to pay to
get in at times with dance floor and decent music. No real ale on my visits though
there's a handpump on the bar.
* GEORGE - Last
visit: 2010 - decent traditional pub near the Infirmary, Copper
Dragon and a couple of Leeds brewery ales.
* GROVE INN
- Holbeck
- Last visit:
2010 - a fine tradtional pub surrounded by modern office developments,
a superb interior with several little rooms off a corridor and bar which has plenty
of handpumps and a choice of ales from small brewers with plenty of Yorkshire
ones on sale. The basic front room has bare floors and dart board, there's fireplaces,
stained glass windows with canal themes and a larger room at the back where live
music events take place. photo
*
HOAGYS -
Last visit: 2006 - large open plan city centre pub,
nothing special and only called in to watch the football, did have a decent pint
of London Pride though and simple cheap food.
* HOGSHEAD ? -
Last visit: 2006 - trendy bar with 2 floors, only
real ale on my visit was a pricey pint of Black Sheep. Large screen TVs showing
sport and music.
* HOP Last
visit: 2010 - a bar in the railway arches at Granary Wharf. An interesting
place, 2 floors with bare brick arched ceilings and big windows looking out at
the canal. A modern but laid back type of place with a mix of open spaces and
small booths to sit live music events advertised. Owned by the Ossett brewery
so has several of their ales and many other guest beers from small breweries photos website
* MIDNIGHT BELL - Holbeck Last
visit: 2010 - another Leeds Brewery cafe bar style place,
it's in a refurbished old brick building. There's a mix of seating
areas and bars on 2 floors, sells various Leeds brewery ales plus
others. photo
website
* MR FOLEYS - Last visit: 2010 - a York
Brewery pub in an interesting old building. Quite a smart modern open layout with
areas on various levels, the main bar is overlooked by more seating upstairs and
also on a balcony and there's another large room at the back, all with plenty
of comfy armchairs and sofas. A big choice of real ale, plenty from York Brewery
of course but also other interesting guests. photo website
* NORTH BAR Last visit: 2006
- a continental style bar with one narrow room, interesting real ales and big
choice of lagers from round the world.
* PALACE
Last visit: 2010 - large whitewashed
building with a very long bar selling plenty of real ales including
some from interesting local brewers eg Leeds, Outlaw etc. Also food
until late evening. A long narrow area by the bar with a couple
of seperate 'rooms' at either end, one down a few steps with a mix
of bare brick and wood panelling. Plenty of benches out at the front
and also in a large back yard photo
* PIN - Last
visit: 2010 - a small one roomed modern bar, bright with big windows and
seating ranging from sofas to plastic chairs. 2 ales from Leeds brewery.
* PRINCE OF WALES - Last visit: 2008 - this
was a rather basic/scruffy little pub near the station with a few different ales.
It's since been refurbished and is much smarter though still seems a down to earth
place with a few good and local ales.
* RELIANCE Last
visit: 2009 - a cafe bar in what I assume was an old shop with big windows,
there's a bar room and seperate room to the side both with various types of seating,
bare floors and brickwork. Quite modern but relaxing style and a couple of changing
real ale plus lots of proper lagers.
* SCARBOROUGH HOTEL -
Last visit: 2010 - big pub just outside the station
witha partly tiled exterior and an open plan but interesting and comfortable interior.
Plenty of real ales which at times have included several from small Yorkshire
brewers though most recently the choice was still good but less varied. A busy
mixed crowd, serves food till late. Photo
* SOUL CIRCUS - - Last visit: 2007
- more of a small nightclub type place, though it was free to get in so I'll list
it here. No proper beer though but decent music
* SPORTS BAR -
Last visit: 2005 - a vast sports themed pub with
no real ale, wasnt my chocie to go here and I wont be doing again!
* TEMPLAR
- Last
visit: 2006 - interesting Tetleys pub, but selling several other beers
from smaller breweries. Narrow front but inside one long comfortable room, with
a hidden lounge area at the back. Seemed popular with an older clientele and a
very local feel despite being in the city. Footy shown on TV and think it has
a jukebox.
* TOWN HALL TAVERN Last visit: 2006
- refurbished in a modern wooden style, range of Taylors beers sold but
was very quiet when i went in on a Sat afternoon, imagine it's mainly a weekday
lunchtime haunt for nearby workers
*
WHITELOCKS -
Last visit: 2009 - hidden down an alleyway off the
Briggate shopping street, a long, low ceilinged narrow and very old pub with an
interesting interior and a fine range of ales both common and more unusual guests.
There's also a seperate dining area and plenty of benches in the alleyway outside.
photo
* WRENS
- Last visit: 2006 - small corner pub selling
beer such as Black Sheep, landlord etc. 3 seperate rooms on different levels including
a comfortable lounge and small tap room round a little central bar. photo
* VICTORIA FAMILY
& COMMERCIAL HOTEL -
Last visit: 2010 - a fantastic ornate interior especially
in the long main room which has the bar down one side and is lined with cosy booths
to sit in, all with lots of dark wood and glass. There's also a seperate room
behind the bar and a seating area at the front including a TV screen. Beers are
Tetleys, Landlord and a selection of changing guest ales usually including local
breweries. photo
I've also been
in a few other places the names of which I cant remember including a smart real
ale-less bar near the river (RECLAIM ?), the free to enter bar of the Cockpit
night club - also real ale-less, and in 2005, in the early hours of the morning
we had a couple of pints in a gay pub as it was still serving and free to go in.
Back in the early 1990s I know I've had a few pints in Leeds too but no idea where.
LINTHWAITE
- I've made a few visits in recent years to this excellent pub
* SAIR INN
- Last visit: 2010 - tap of the Linfit brewery,
the bar is lined with many handpumps selling a choice their ales. A stone pub
up a steep road off the main A62 with views from the front over the valley and
a few benches outside. Inside is a classic cosy traditional pub, rather gloomily
lit with several small rooms, flagstone floors, dark wood, real fires and sometimes
lots of dogs wandering around - it could be described as a bit basic and ramshackle
but nowt wrong with that! Photos
MARSDEN
- just over the other side of the Pennines from my home,
I enjoy visiting for a pint or two when walking or cycling.
*
GREAT WESTERN on
the A62 over Standedge
-
Last
visit: 2008 - a few miles out of Marsden
but just within the West Yorks border on Standedge. A stone roadside
dining type pub. Inside is quite dark and cosy with a couple of
rooms, a wood buring stove and a large buffalo head on the wall!
Also has a newer dining room and seats outside overlooking the a
reservoir but also the busy A62 road.
Only stopped off here once,
Black Sheep and 2 guest ales incl one from Ossett, though on my
visit it wasnt in the best condition. photo
* RAILWAY -
Last
visit: 2010 - next to the station,
a large opened out interior in a typical refurbished pub style with
wood, sofas and armchairs etc and TV screens showing sport. It has
had a few spells closed or to let but is now a Marstons pub with
a few of their/Jennings ales and sometimes other guests, as well
as decent value food. photo
* RIVERHEAD BREWERY TAP Last
visit: 2012 - now owned by the Ossett
brewery (previously it was the pub of the Riverhead Brewery), it
has 10 handpumps selling a mix of Ossett beers alongside the Riverhead
brews and a guest beer. The pub is in the centre of the village
next to the river where there are outside benches overlooking the
weir. A few years ago it was refurbished, inside is a bare wooden
floored single room but split up with seating on different levels
and with a view down to the brewery. There's also an upstairs restaurant. A
relaxed down to earth atmosphere though often very busy with a mixed
crowd of locals and visitors. photos
riverhead
website ossett
website
*
SWAN - Last
visit: 2006
- a small comfortable
Thwaites pub selling several of their beers, also a seperate dining
room. photo
* TUNNEL END INN - Last
visit: 2010 - comfortable and very
friendly old stone pub. Fairly small inside with a large real fire,
also a dining room at the back and does good home made food. 4 ales
including Black Sheep, Landlord and a couple of interesting guests
- the guest beers are cheaper than the regulars so no excuse not
to have one or two. In a pleasant setting down a lane just outside
the village near the canal basin and Standedge tunnel. photo
NOTE: when last in Marsden (July 2011) the pub
was closed until further notice, see their website
- a shame and hopefully only
temporary
MIRFIELD
- stopped off once for a pint.
* NAVIGATION TAVERN - Last visit: 2009
- a whitewashed traditional locals pub near the station with the
bar room and second room with pool table and TV showing sports.
Quite a number of handpumps, on my visit they were all selling various
beers from Theakstons photo
RIPPONDEN
- have stopepd off here for a meal once or twice some time ago
* TURNPIKE
- Last visit: 2001 ? - a big stone pub opposite
the reservoir on the moors, good food, real ale but can't remember what it was.
SALTAIRE
- I've made a brief visit here for a look round and called in at this
fine pub...
* FANNY'S REAL ALE & CIDER HOUSE - Last
visit: 2008 - Outside it has a shop style front, inside is a proper ale
house with wooden floors and bare walls covered in old photos & brewery memorabilia.
The little bar has plenty of handpumps selling several beers from Taylors
and others including a selection of Yorkshire brewers. A few seats by the bar
at the front, a room to the side, a dark cosy little area behind the bar with
a real fire and a larger room beyond through an archway up a few steps photo
SLAITHWAITE
- I've stopped off here on occasions when passing through
or meeting a friend, especially as it now has some very good ale
pubs
* COMMERCIAL - Last visit: 2011
- large stone corner pub, refurbished and reopened as a real ale
pub in 2009 run by the same people as the Swan (below). There's
a big choice of ales (8 ?) from smaller breweries, many from Yorkshire
including a house beer from the local Empire brewery. Inside there's
several rooms/areas either side of the door all with tiled floors,
high ceilings, a bright appearance and some comfy chairs and sofas.
Also a more basic room at the back with TV sport. photo website
* ROSE & CROWN at Cop Hill - Last
visit: 2007 - a big stone pub on a hillside between Slawit
& Marsden with benches outside to enjoy the fine views down
the Colne Valley to Huddersfield. Is more a dining pub with a bar
room and separate restaurant but one my one visit when I stopped
off while cycling I had a good pint of Copper Dragon from the small
choice of ales. photo
* SHOULDER OF MUTTON - Last visit:
2010 - average locals pub, a few partly opened out rooms,
pool table and TV sport. One proper beer from Black Sheep. My one
(and hopefully only) visit was on a Fri night when there was a DJ
in action, it was busy and noisy and not my sort of scene!
* SWAN - Last visit: 2010
- locals pub with a lounge and smaller public bar/games room, sport
on TV and regular live music. 4 handpumps on the main bar which
on my few visits have included something from the nearby Empire
brewery and another interesting guest or two. I've also visited
during one of their beer festivals when there was a great range
of ales on offer from many more handpumps on the back bar. photo
* WHARFSIDE INN - Last visit: 2010
- large stone wedge shaped building owned by Copper Dragon
so a few of their ales plus sometimes another guest beer. Inside
is one partly opened out room with the bar and basic seating area
in the narrow end of the wedge and the wider area up a couple of
steps with tables for dining and a pool table beneath a huge wall
clock. Friendly service and a small good value food menu
photo
SOWERBY
BRIDGE - visited here briefly once on a pub crawl,
and once for a longer look round and a few more pints
* FIREHOUSE - Last visit: 2011
- a smart cafe bar in an old stone corner building, apparently there's
a restaurant upstairs too but I didnt go there! Instead I had a
pint from the 4 ales on offer, 2 from Timothy Taylors and 2 guests
from small breweries photo
* JUBILEE REFRESHMENT ROOMS - Last
visit: 2009 - a recent conversion of the former station waiting
rooms, inside is bright and clean though it is set out a bit like
a canteen, it's a long narrow room with a high ceiling and lined
with tables and chairs though a wood burning stove and interesting
clock give it a bit of character. The place is run by a couple of
real ale (and train) enthusiasts so the only beers sold are from
micro breweries and those I tried were very good indeed! photo
website
* PUZZLE HALL - Last visit: 2011
- an interesting and very old stone building near the canal and
with a yard backing onto the river. A couple of small basic rooms
including a wood burning stove (and there may be other rooms I didnt
see!), seems to be a big live music venue. Plenty of ales from good
Yorkshire and other micro breweries including Saltaire and Goose
Eye, an interesting little place! photo
website
* THE NAVIGATION - Last visit:
2011 - a stone pub near the marina, opened out inside and
I sat outside anyway in the nice beer garden. Beers from Taylors
and Black Sheep. photo
* SHEPHERDS REST - Last visit: 2011
- a large stone locals pub, looks quite plain outside but inside
is more interesting with a wedge shaped front area, a large bar
room and more areas through a brick arch. Various memorabilia on
the walls plus a large yard out back. An Osset brewery pub with
plenty of their ales plus several other guests photo
* THE WORKS - Last visit: 2011
- an interesting pub conversion in a former joiners workshop. A
very large bright open room with a high ceiling, big fireplace,
bare brick and stone walls and wooden floors. 8 or 9 handpumps,
several from Taylors, it's own house beer and other good guest ales photo
website
TODMORDEN
only been here briefly, where I called in for a quick pint at:
* BLACK SWAN - Last visit: 2007
- one open plan room with a stage and dancefloor at one end, must
be the scene of some Tod revelry at times but when I visited was
very quiet and sparce feeling with just me and an old bloke at the
bar. But it has some handpumps, only one was 'on' but had a decent
pint of Copper Dragon.
* GOLDEN LION - Last visit: 2007
- large pub obviously recently refurbished and emphasis on food
but also had pool table and some corners to sit in for a pint from
a good choice of ales incl Copper Dragon, Everards and others. No
chance of a quiet pint though due to some very loud crap chart pop
music being played
WAKEFIELD
have visited once for a wander round a few pubs and have also stopped
off briefly while changing trains
* FERNANDES BREWERY TAP - Last visit:
2008 - a famous ale house and home of Fernandes brewery
but now owned by Ossett so sells plenty of ales from both plus other
guests. The real ale bar is upstairs, one comfortable open room
with bare floorboards and brickwork, a high ceiling and decorated
with old pub signs, photographs etc. Downstairs is the Bier Keller
selling continental beers but I didnt venture in there. photo
* ELEPHANT & CASTLE - Last visit:
2008 - large pub near Westgate station, an impressive tiled
exterior and inside is an attractive pub with semi open plan rooms,
comfy seating and a games room plus large TV screen at the back.
Ales were just John Smiths and Black Sheep.
* HARRY'S BAR - Last visit: 2008
- on a side street off Westgate so hard to find (well it was for
me - and also only open from 5pm). One smallish and dark cosy room
with lots of bare wood and a good choice of ales from Ossett and
other Yorkshire breweries. photo
* HENRY BOONS - Last visit: 2010
- a large bare floored pub with one L shaped room but well divided
up including raised seating areas and a central fireplace. Lots
of space by the interesting thatched bar, with seating round the
sides, tables made from barrels and a large screen TV at the back.
Home of the Clarks brewery so sells a choice of their ales. photo
WALSDEN
* BORDER ROSE INN - Last visit: 2007
- been in once for a pint when passing by, just John Smiths
bitter, a pleasent enough but unremarkable pub.
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