Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Linda Briggs
Closed
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Aka the Dublin Arms.
The pub closed in 1905 following the Licensing Act [1904]
There was a toll booth near the Inn for the Stainland to Sowerby Bridge Turnpike.
Recorded in 1822.
The inn was owned by John Shaw & Sons.
In the 1870s, it became the Station Hotel when the
railway came to Stainland.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham
It was a Stocks pub [1869].
It later became the White Swan.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two.
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Lesley Abernethy
It was a Halifax Brewery Company pub.
The pub closed in 1906 following the Licensing Act [1904].
The pub closed with the extinction of licence [31st July 1907].
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham
See
Waggon & Horses, Ripponden
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
See
Carr Terrace, Bottoms,
Edmund Dyson and
Todmorden & District Carriage Company
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This was one of the town's main coaching inns
Joseph Rideal Smith was born here and the building appears in one
of his prints.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Jeffrey Knowles
This was originally a beer house.
The pub closed in 1908 following the Licensing Act [1904]
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The building was originally a row of weavers' cottages [around 1740].
Around 1800, the property was converted into a smallholding called
Brock Top Farm, Mount Tabor.
In the late 19th century, it was converted into a pub to serve the
trade passing up and down Stocks Lane on their way to and from the
quarries in Mount Tabor.
This was originally a beer house.
It opened in 1902.
It was a Ramsden pub.
There is a stone horse trough on the roadside by the property for the
horses on their way up Stocks Lane.
The pub closed in 1958.
When the quarries stopped production, the pub was split into two
properties: Breck Top Farm and Breck Top Cottage.
The electrical box on the street lamp outside still
reads Waggoners' Rest.
For many years, occupants and visitors have reported sightings of a
man wearing a brimmed hat and long coat in the upstairs rear of the
property
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by James Ashworth, Glynn Helliwell, Daniel Parsons, Andrew Poole & Robert Wade
This was originally a beer house.
The pub was renamed the Standard of Freedom
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Question:
Does anyone know anything about this hostelry?
Could it be the another name for the Waggoners', Ovenden?
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Colin Newbitt
J. E. Wainhouse's home at West Air was converted into a pub, known successively as the Royal, Pye Nest, the Folly, and the Wainhouse Tavern [by 2014]
It is mentioned in a bond dated 1598.
Planning applications show that this was a Halifax Brewery Company pub [March 1907].
At one time,
It was a Ramsden pub LC.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by David Greaves & Clive Whitehead
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Originally a beerhouse and brewery tap called the Wapping Spring
Inn.
The name was changed to Wappy, the brand name for the
ales and stouts made in casks and bottles by the Wapping Spring Brewery.
When the Hawk, Barkisland closed [10th February 1937], the
licence was transferred to the Wappy Spring
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Chris Denham & Clive Whitehead
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It was a Knowles pub.
On 4th June 1928, the Waterhouse Arms, the Bacchus Tavern,
and the King of Belgium were referred for closure.
The pub was demolished in 19??.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
It was a Knowles pub.
See
Flogging and
Halifax Orange Club, No. 10
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Jeffrey Knowles
See
Horton Street Temperance Hotels
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It later became known as Bar 15
This & associated entries use material contributed by Anthony Buckless
Built on the site of Farrar's Mill.
This was originally a beer house.
The pub appears to be unoccupied [2008].
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs.
See
Luddendenfoot Economic Stores
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by James Ashworth, Glynn Helliwell & Edwina Veitch-Clark
The pub closed on 11th September 1906 following the Licensing Act [1904]
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Mid 17th century timber-framed building.
It was originally a farmhouse.
In the mid-19th century, John Bowes, then his
wife Sarah, owned the pub.
It was rebuilt in the 19th century.
A music licence was granted [1939].
It was popularly known as the Glue Pot.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell
This was originally a beer house
It was a Ramsden pub.
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell & Stella Spencer
The Irish workers staying here were one focus for the Irish
riots of 1882.
The pub closed in 1946 and was demolished in 1949.
A small memorial garden was built on the site.
The name remains in the Wellington Arcade shopping precinct which
now stands on the site.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs.
See
Mark Morrell
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by David Brown, Derrick Habergham & Jeffrey Knowles
Opened in 1844.
This was recorded as a Public Beer house [March 1847].
It was a Ramsden's pub.
The pub closed on 14th August 1968 and was demolished for the
Burdock Way development.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell & Jeffrey Knowles
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Steve Dobson & Derrick Habergham
In 1881, this was a row of 3 cottages for workers in the local
quarries, the middle one of which was a beer house.
Around 1891, it became a pub.
The name was changed to The Hobbit when the property was restored
in 1975.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
See
Watson Mill Lane, Sowerby Bridge
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by James Ashworth, Derrick Habergham & Glynn Helliwell
Aka West End Tavern.
Designed by Petty & Ives.
It was built in 1899.
It was a Whitaker pub,
and one of their purpose-built pubs.
The pub was originally run as a refreshment house, selling
non-alcoholic drinks, because the licence was not granted until
October 1901, when Whitaker's offered to surrender the
licences of the Horse & Trumpet and the California.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This was originally a beer house.
The property was recorded as belonging to the executors of Squire Ratcliffe [1903].
Later, it was a Whitaker pub.
The pub closed in 1914.
Mentioned again when the licence was extinct [27th December 1924].
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham
Question:
Does anyone know anything about this pub?
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This was originally a beer house
at California.
Opened in August 1859 as a tavern selling wines and spirits, with
Richard Edmondson as licensee.
On 19th September 1872, smoke from the chimney of the brew-house
adjoining the pub was considered a nuisance.
The front of the pub was destroyed when the Hanson Lane bomb fell on
22nd November 1940.
3 customers at the pub – and 8 other people – were killed.
The pub had to be demolished on account of the bomb damage.
It reopened in 1950.
The pub closed in 1969 and was finally demolished.
See
Clement Garforth,
West End Glee Union and
Arthur Watson
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell, Jeffrey Knowles & Clive Whitehead
The pub closed in 1865
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Recorded in 1891, when
Mary E. Morton was barmaid here
Question:
Could this be the West Ward Liberal Club?
This was originally a beer house.
Opened in 1897.
Originally owned by Emma Marsden of Brighouse, it was
purchased by Joseph Stocks Company Limited and eventually
became part of the Samuel Webster estate.
The pub closed in October 1969.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two.
See
John Birtwhistle and
West Ward Hotel, Halifax
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell
Built by Mr Patterson.
After Patterson's death, John Oldfield Bates lived there.
The house became a pub after Bates's death.
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Jeffrey Knowles, Colin Newbitt & Kevin Sheard
Aka Western Hotel.
This was originally a beer house.
Licensed in 1897.
It was a Fielding pub.
The pub closed in 1967
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell & Jeffrey Knowles
It was a Webster's pub.
In 1983, it was acquired by The Fighting Cock group and was
renamed The Red Rooster.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by David Brown
In August 1897, the licence from the Wharf Inn, Sowerby Bridge was
transferred to the Wharf House on the opposite side of Wharf Street.
The new hostelry was known as the Wharf House Hotel.
It was a Brear & Brown pub [1903],
then Thomas Brown owned it [1905] then it was a
Whitaker pub [1910].
It was later known as the Wharf Hotel
It subsequently became
the Ash Tree [1983],
the Java ethnic restaurant,
and
the Village Indonesian/Asian restaurant [2010].
This is discussed in the books
Halifax Pubs and
Halifax Pubs Volume Two.
It was a Brear & Brown pub [1900]
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham & Clive Whitehead
It was later known as the Wharf Hotel
This was originally a beer house.
It was a Brear & Brown pub [1896].
In 1897, it was described as one of the oldest licensed houses in the
district.
In August 1897, the licence from the Wharf Inn was transferred
to the Wharf House on the opposite side of Wharf Street.
The new hostelry was known as the Wharf House Hotel.
It was later known as the Wharf Hotel
It was demolished in 19??.
The Wharf Garage now stands on the site.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two
See
Wharf Inn Family Funeral Brief and
Wharf Inn Smoke Club
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
In December 2013, J. D. Wetherspoon reopened the pub as The
Commercial
It was the property of the Earl of Mexborough [1903].
It was a Bentley & Shaw pub [1930].
It was known as the Three Bonnie Lasses on account of the wife
and daughters of the landlord James Clegg.
The pub closed on 28th December 1935 with the extinction of the
licence.
See
John Edward Briggs and
Pablo Fanque
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Lesley Abernethy & Derrick Habergham
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Roger Beasley & Jeffrey Knowles
It was a Webster's pub [1861].
In October 2016, there were proposals to convert the property into 4
dwellings.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn T. Helliwell & Clive Whitehead
This was originally a beer house
in a row of weavers' cottages.
It was a Brear & Brown pub,
then it was a Whitaker pub [1916].
It closed in 2009.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two.
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell, Jeffrey Knowles & Richard Morton
Built in 1891 as a part of Halifax Borough Market.
Question:
The pub is recorded as early as 1816 when Thomas Carver was
landlord.
Does anyone know anything about the pub between then and 1891 when it
was incorporated into the Borough Market?
Was it a separate building on the same site?
It was a Brear & Brown pub [1913].
Around 1970, the name was changed to William Deighton.
In 199?, it was renamed Portman & Pickles.
See
Jackson & Fox
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Anthony Buckless & Jeffrey Knowles
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Jeffrey Knowles & Clive Whitehead
The pub closed in 192?.
The pub stood near Coley corn mill and, when this fell into disuse,
the mill wheel became unsafe and was removed in the 1940s – leaving
only the wheel hole.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs.
See
Hoile
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This was originally a beer house
built by William Fielden.
He was a basket-maker;
a whisket is a basket.
The pub closed in 1869
Opened in 1822.
Also recorded in 1860 as the Lord Nelson, Halifax when Mrs Ruth Garforth was landlady.
The pub closed in 1865
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Robert Wade
The pub closed in 1869
Question:
Could this be the same as the White Bear, Triangle?
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham
The pub was used as a Coroner's Court
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Andrew Howson & Jeffrey Knowles
It was a Whitaker pub.
It stood next to (and east of) Scratcherd & Company's premises at
Bull Green.
Halifax Corporation bought the building for £9,000.
It was demolished around 1897 when the area was redeveloped and the
lines for the new tramway system were laid in Halifax.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two.
See
Coaches
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham & Jeffrey Knowles
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Jeffrey Knowles
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Lesley Abernethy
Mid 18th century public house with an older barn
dated RWIM 1630.
The property was built by the Whiteley family.
It was a Bentley & Shaw pub [1911].
The pub closed in the 1990s.
It is now private housing.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham & Glynn Helliwell
Originally a farm and outbuildings.
In 1728, it was opened as the New Inn by Tamar and
John Fielden of Todmorden Hall.
John gave the inn and farm to his nephew, Samuel Fielden of Bottomley.
Samuel sold the inn at the end of the 18th century, leaving
the proceeds to his son, Samuel.
The cattle fair was held at White Hart Fold, and the town market was held at Eccles's Fold in the 19th century.
The market later moved to the Royal George, Todmorden.
In the mid-19th century, the Court of Petty Sessions was held at the
inn.
The court room was reach by a flight of steps up the outside the
building, and appearance at court was known as going up
Eccles's steps.
The court moved to the Queens Hotel in January 1847.
In 1899, the inn was extended.
In 1935, it was demolished and the present 3-storey, mock-Tudor
building erected
Currently [2023], a Wetherspoons
See
Central Livery Stables, Todmorden,
Todmorden Botanical Society and
Todmorden Market
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by James Ashworth & Linda Briggs
Opened in 1819.
In August 1868, under the terms of the Halifax Improvements Acts, the pub applied for, but was refused, a music and dancing licence.
The pub closed and was demolished in 1898.
The present building and shops were erected on the site after
Southgate was widened.
The new pub – designed by Jackson & Fox – opened on 24th June 1899
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Glynn Helliwell & Jeffrey Knowles
Mr Bannister farmed here in the 16th century.
At one time, it was occupied by a Mr Lees and Lees Yard was built in his garden.
In 1786, William Patchett opened an inn here.
William built Garden Street in the garden of the inn
to link Commercial Street and Bridge Gate and to bypass the White Lion which was owned by his brother, Richard.
The Inn was a popular venue for public meetings and inquests.
In the 1800s, it served as parish hall for the parish of Wadsworth.
It was a Whitaker pub [1921].
The inn closed in 1960.
In 1961, the council bought the site for £3500.
The property was demolished on 26th November 1962.
It is now a car park.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It was a Stocks pub [1903],
then it was a Webster's pub [1933].
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Lesley Abernethy & Clive Whitehead
In 1829, the property was Number 17 Spring Gardens and was
owned by Robert Sutcliffe and occupied by George
Pickles.
In 1840, a beerhouse is recorded on the site.
The names White House and White Horse are recorded.
The ghost of Elizabeth – wife of landlord James Baldwin – is said to haunt the pub
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This & associated entries use material contributed by James Ashworth, Roger Beasley, David Greaves, Derrick Habergham, Glynn Helliwell & Russell Taylor
Waggon & Horses, Bottoms Ref 17-1071
Waggon & Horses, Cornholme Ref 17-1087
Waggon & Horses, Halifax Ref 17-W1 Waggon & Horses, Holywell Green Ref 17-1050
Waggon & Horses, Rastrick Ref 17-1327
Waggon & Horses, Ripponden Ref 17-444
Waggon & Horses, Sowerby Bridge Ref 17-W2
Waggon & Horses, Soyland Ref 17-248 Waggon & Horses, Stainland Ref 17-246
Waggon & Horses, Stainland Ref 17-247
Waggon & Horses, Walsden Ref 17-600
Waggoners', Halifax Ref 17-249
Waggoners', Halifax Ref 17-879
Waggoners Inn, Ambler Thorn Ref 17-1319
Waggoners', Ovenden Ref 17-251
Waggoners' Rest, Mount Tabor Ref 17-399
Waggoners', Skircoat Green Ref 17-673 Waggoners', Stainland Ref 17-250
Wagon & Horses, Ovenden Ref 17-1330
Wainhouse Tavern Ref 17-1383
Waiters' Arms, Sowerby Bridge Ref 17-390
Walkers' Arms, Shelf Ref 17-252
Wappy Spring, Outlane Ref 17-1235
Ward's Temperance Hotel, Halifax Ref 17-113
Warren House Inn, Fixby Ref 17-1341
Harriet, relict of Saville Crowther, formerly of
the Warren House Inn, Fixby, was buried at Blackley Baptist Church
Waterfront, Brighouse Ref 17-587 Waterhouse Arms, Halifax Ref 17-253
Waverley Temperance Hotel, Halifax Ref 17-1172
WC's, Halifax Ref 17-1216 Weavers' Arms, Luddendenfoot Ref 17-566
Weavers' Arms, Midgley Ref 17-861 Weavers' Arms, Todmorden Ref 17-516
Weavers, Halifax Ref 17-567 Wellington, Elland Ref 17-255
Wellington, Halifax Ref 17-756
Wellington Hotel, Brighouse Ref 17-254
Wellington Hotel, Halifax Ref 17-859
Wellington Inn, Queensbury Ref 17-1184
Wellington, Todmorden Ref 17-503
West Bottom Tavern, Norland Ref 17-490
West End Hotel, Halifax Ref 17-568
West End Hotel, Queensbury Ref 17-1112
West End Tavern, Sowerby Bridge Ref 17-757
West Gate, Clifton Ref 17-127
West Hill, Halifax Ref 17-W227
West Riding Hotel, Halifax Ref 17-860
West Vale Inn Ref 17-1385 West Vale Tavern Ref 17-1194 West Ward Hotel, Halifax Ref 17-1387
West Ward Tavern, Halifax Ref 17-760
Western, Halifax Ref 17-1259 Westgate, Halifax Ref 17-337
Weston Hotel, Halifax Ref 17-758
Westward Ho, Ovenden Ref 17-759 Wharf, Brighouse Ref 17-257
Wharf Hotel, Sowerby Bridge Ref 17-256
Wharf House Hotel Sowerby Bridge Ref 17-1263 Wharf Inn, Sowerby Bridge Ref 17-1023
Wharf, Sowerby Bridge Ref 17-1165
Wheat Sheaf, Elland Ref 17-258
Wheat Sheaf, Ovenden Ref 17-765
Wheat Sheaf, Pellon Ref 17-259
Wheatley Wells, Wheatley Ref 17-298
Wheatsheaf, Halifax Ref 17-260
Wheatsheaf, Queensbury Ref 17-1206
T' Wheel Hoile, Norwood Green Ref 17-982
Whiskam Dandy, Halifax Ref 17-363
This is Whiskam Dandy
where we sell good ale and brandy
Whisket, Todmorden Ref 17-966
White Bear, Halifax Ref 17-262
White Bear, Skircoat Green Ref 17-856 White Bear, Sowerby Ref 17-1333
White Bear, Triangle Ref 17-261
White Hart, Halifax Ref 17-264
White Hart, Hipperholme Ref 17-1253
White Hart, Queensbury Ref 17-858 White Hart, Rastrick Ref 17-968
White Hart, Soyland Ref 17-666
White Hart, Todmorden Ref 17-263
White Horse, Halifax Ref 17-266
White Horse, Hebden Bridge Ref 17-269
White Horse Hotel, Heptonstall Ref 17-165 White Horse, Lightcliffe Ref 17-268
White Horse, Luddendenfoot Ref 17-569