The Valley Bar is a bit of a walk from anywhere the casual visitor to Scarbrough would frequent. I thought I’d been in here before but nothing was striking any chords. I […]
The Railway, Hebden Bridge
The Railway Hotel is one of those pubs that should be painted white, but along with many other copy cats, is now Light Slate Grey with black highlights. To be fair it […]
Free Trades, Hebden Bridge
It’s probably remiss of me never to have visited the legendary Trades Club before. Tucked away down Holme Street, just off the main drag running through Hebden Bridge. You might glance up the street, […]
Nightjar, Hebden Bridge
I thought I might start with, ‘I was slightly foxed when I returned to Nightjar?’ On second thoughts, sounds a bit cheesy doesn’t it? Well, it does if you’ve followed developments at […]
Calan’s, Hebden Bridge
Calan’s was Hebden Bridge’s first micro pub when it opened in April 2015. Although I would contend, that although micro in scale, it isn’t a micropub at all – more of that […]
‘Five Beers, Three Ways’ at the Mended Drum, Huby
Man walks into a pub in a small North Yorkshire village. Nice village, nice little pub, but beyond being in GBG2018 it doesn’t offer much hope. Maybe a York Brewery beer if […]
Drink? Hebden Bridge
One minute you’re walking down Hebden Bridge High Street. You see a sign that says Drink? Sounds interesting, so you walk in. Next thing you know you’re down in the tube station and […]
The Fox and Goose, Hebden Bridge
The Fox and Goose wasn’t the first community owned pub in the UK, that’s The Old Crown at Hesket Newmarket in Cumbria. It was however, the first one in West Yorkshire when […]
Shakespeare’s, Sheffield
If I’m honest, I was more interested in the new looking Bar Stewards on the other side of Gibraltar Street. Thing was, it didn’t open until 5.30pm and when we came out […]
The Angel, Scarbro’
If I’m going to be perfectly honest, Good Beer Guide pub or not, it wasn’t the beer that would have me returning to The Angel in Scarbro’. Don’t get me wrong, nothing […]