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Jack's House, TodmordenRef 17-1218
Burnley Road.

Formerly Shoulder of Mutton and The House that Jack Built [from 1974]

Jackson's Houses, Sowerby BridgeRef 17-1281
Bolton Brow.

This was originally a beer house


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

 

Jeremy's Restaurant, BrighouseRef 17-145
Brighouse Mill Lane

Jockey Tavern, CornholmeRef 17-912
Burnley Road


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

  • 1900: Daniel Sutcliffe

 

Joiners' Arms, BrighouseRef 17-366
Halifax Road, Hove Edge.

It was a Whitaker pub [1881].

The pub closed on 26th December 1932.

The building became Hove Edge Post Office.

See Fold End Estate


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

 

Joiners' Arms, HalifaxRef 17-687
2 Damask Street Halifax.

This was originally a beer house.

Opened in 1882.

The pub closed in 1967


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

  • 1871: Albert Wadsworth
  • 1875: Robert Longbottom
  • 1881: Esther Shaw [from Ireland]
  • 1905: Walter Hirst
  • 1912: Walter Hirst
  • 1912: Joseph White
  • 1922: Joseph White
  • 1922: Joseph Ogden Ellison
  • 1927: Joseph Ogden Ellison
  • 1927: Mrs Emma Ellison
  • 1928: Mrs Emma Ellison
  • 1928: Walter Uttley
  • 1941: Walter Uttley
  • 1941: Joseph Edward Briggs
  • 1944: Joseph Edward Briggs
  • 1944: Horace Cockroft
  • 1957: Horace Cockroft
  • 1957: James Ephraim Waterhouse
  • 1960: James Ephraim Waterhouse
  • 1960: Harry Conway Watson
  • 1961: Harry Conway Watson
  • 1961: Naylor Hiley
  • 1964: Naylor Hiley
  • 1964: Joseph Leslie Thomas

 

Jolly Sailor, EllandRef 17-945
Aka Jolly Boatman. Briggate.

The pub closed in 19??


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

  • 1822: Isaac Maude
  • 1829: Sarah Underwood

 

Jolly Sailor, Sowerby BridgeRef 17-688
St Anne's Square / Cock Hill / Back Wharf Street.

Late 18th century building.

It was a beerhouse in 1876.

Planning applications show that this was a Benjamin Jackson pub [February 1899]. By 1926, it was owned by Bentley & Shaw.

The pub closed in 1939.

It became known as Lock Hill House.

In 2004, permission was granted to convert the building into 6 flats. The proposals became an issue when the conversion was begun and then abandoned, to the annoyance of local property owners.

See Jolly Sailor Club, Sowerby Bridge


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

 

Jubilee, HalifaxRef 17-1346
On 1st June 2012, the Portman & Pickles was renamed The Jubilee to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II

Jubilee Hotel, SouthowramRef 17-1161
New Street.

This was originally a beer house.

It acquired a full licence in 1961.

After Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887, the name of the Rock was changed to the Jubilee Hotel. Planning applications show that this was a Stocks pub [November 1903].

The pub closed in the early 1990s.

It is now a day nursery [2010].

This is discussed in the book Halifax Pubs Volume Two


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

 

Junction, BradshawRef 17-486
6 Moor Bottom Road / 61 Holdsworth Road, Ovenden.

This was originally a beer house.

It was a Whitaker pub.

In August 1874, Joseph Blackburn was granted a wine licence.

John Sutcliffe owned the pub from 1891, until 16th October 1925 when it was acquired by Mrs Eleanor Halstead who sold the pub to Richard Whitaker's on the 2nd December 1926.

In 1937, the pub was only licensed to sell beer and wine. This is discussed in the book Halifax Pubs Volume Two


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

  • 1874: Joseph Blackburn
  • 1881: Stephen Walmsley
  • 1891: John Sutcliffe
  • 1908: John Sutcliffe
  • 1908: Frances Barker
  • 1908: Arthur Mann
  • 1909: Arthur Mann
  • 1909: Herbert Shackleton
  • 1909: Herbert Shackleton
  • 1909: Edmund Booth
  • 1910: Edmund Booth
  • 1910: Mrs Mary Ann Murgatroyd
  • 1914: Mrs Mary Ann Murgatroyd
  • 1914: Harry Hartley
  • 1922: Harry Hartley
  • 1922: Robert Ashcroft
  • 1925: Robert Ashcroft
  • 1925: Sykes Halstead
  • 1926: Sykes Halstead
  • 1926: Joe Parker
  • 1931: Joe Parker
  • 1931: Harry Ingham
  • 1932: Harry Ingham
  • 1932: John Thomas Booth
  • 1937: John Thomas Booth
  • 1937: Clarence Edward Needham
  • 1937: Clarence Edward Needham
  • 1937: Harold Cook
  • 1941: Harold Cook
  • 1941: Tom Wray
  • 1943: Tom Wray
  • 1943: Herbert Duffy
  • 1952: Herbert Duffy
  • 1952: William Frank Yorke

 

Junction, HalifaxRef 17-426
At the junction of 13 Charlestown Road / 2 Pearson Street.

This was originally a beer house.

On 3rd March 1930, this, the Black Horse Inn, Woolshops, the Engineers Inn, Cross Hills, the Bishop Blaize Inn, Charlestown Road and the Victoria & Albert Inn, Haley Hill were referred for closure. The pub closed on the 28th March 1934


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

 

Junction Hotel, HalifaxRef 17-305
30/36/192 King Cross Road / Queens Road.

This was originally a beer house.

This is discussed in the book Halifax Pubs


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

 

Junction, RastrickRef 17-377
Stands at the bottom of Ogden Lane at the junction of Bottom o' th' Town, Rastrick / Toothill Bank.

Rebuilt 1899.

Behind the pub, there was a deep band of sandstone about 65 ft thick. This was almost 100 ft below ground level. The shafts were around 12 ft in diameter. It was mined for use as flagstone and building materials by Southage's at the end of the 19th century, although it may have been mined earlier


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

  • 1861: John Charlesworth
  • 1881: James Charlesworth
  • 1894: Mrs Sarah Greenwood
  • 1901: Tom Thackeray
  • 1902: Thomas Whitaker
  • 1903: William Lund
  • 1906: Thomas Henry Hoyle
  • 1913: Percy Cockroft
  • 1914: Jim Mornington
  • 1923: Albert France
  • 1925: Elton Greenwood
  • 1928: John Bailey
  • 1929: Florence Bailey
  • 1935: William Clayton
  • 1949: Mr Goodwin
  • 1949: Albert Walker

 

Junction, RippondenRef 17-306
1 Oldham Road.

Built in 1852 by John Garside as a temperance hotel.

Bare-knuckle fighting used to take place in the basement which was reached by steps at the side of the building.

It became a tapas bar El Gato Negro [200?], then the Last Post

This is discussed in the books Halifax Antiquarian Society Transactions and Halifax Pubs


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

 

Junction, West ValeRef 17-726
Recorded in 1861, when it was listed next but one to the Shears, West Vale


Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

 



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