PUBS & ALE HOUSES

EXISTING

T' Cat i'th'well

Wainstalls Lane, Lower Saltonstall.

Recorded in 1783.

There is a legend relating to the white rock – Cat Rocks – behind the pub which says that ...

The licensee must paint the rock white on a certain day of the year. If he fails to do this, the pub will fail.

The story says that ...

Robin Hood started this custom after he befriended the landlord of the pub on his travels between Nottingham and Carlisle. The landlord had hidden Robin Hood in the pub – some say it was a priest's hole – when the authorities were following him. The landlord's reward was a share in some of Robin's ill-gotten gains. The money was hidden near to the rock, and the only way the landlord could find the money was to paint it yearly so that Robin Hood on his travels could see that the hoard was being looked after, because the stone was newly-painted.

One year, as a joke, the landlord painted the stone pink not believing the legend. There was an uproar in Halifax and the pub went out of business later that year This is discussed in the book Halifax Pubs Volume Two (See Castle Carr, Caty Well Brook, Loyal Travellers Lodge and John Preston).

Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

1834: Richard Thomas
1845: Richard Thomas
1851: Grace Thomas
1858: John Horsfall [?]
1861: John Horsfield
1874: Roger Parker
1879: Jonas Bloomer
1891: Joseph Alderson
1896: Joseph Alderson
1905: Joshua Shackleton
1930: Joshua Shackleton
1930: Grace Shackleton
1939: Grace Shackleton
1939: Edmund Bedford
1943: Edmund Bedford
1943: Wilfred Shaw
1959: Wilfred Shaw
1959: Elsie Shaw
1961: Elsie Shaw
1961: Albert Clarkson

The Lord Nelson

At the very heart of the village, adjacent to St Mary’s Church, a 17th Century coaching house.
The 1634 datestone over the door of the pub recalls its origin as a private house, known as Newhouse. It did not become an alehouse until the middle of the 18th century when it was called The White Swan.

In 1743, John Pacthett legitimised his rights to water from a spring at the rear of the inn by acquiring a 99 year lease. His will in 1745 mentions brewing vessels in use.

Gregory Pachett rebuilt the inn in stone and his initials form part of the hoodmould labels above the first floor window.

It's name was changed to The Lord Nelson after The Battle of Trafalgar (1805).

It contained a library, established in 1776 which had 1,000 books.

The pub was a favourite of Branwell Brontë, the only brother of Charlotte, Emily and Anne, during his time as a clerk on the Leeds and Manchester Railway in charge of Luddenden Foot Station.

Past and Present Licencees
Period	Licencee
1910 - 1916	Thomas Riley
1916 - 1927	Frank Murgatroyd
1927 - 1929	Oliver Drake
1929 - 1932	Fred Oakley
1932 - 1934	Ayton Sowden
1934 - 1939	William Shorthouse
1939 - 1944	Joshua Yardley
1945 - 1948	Reginald Fry
1948 - 1955	Arthur Greenwood
1955 - 1958	Douglas Jagger
1958 - 1961	Douglas Mason
1961 - 1965	G. Kenneth Young
1965 - 1968	Newton Pollard
1968 - 1969	Robert Thomas
1969 - 1976	George Needham
1976 - 1980	Jack Scroby
1980 - 1981	Peter Adams
1981 - 1985	C. Humphrey Sykes
1985 - 1991	C. Van Southwort
1991 - 1999	Paul and Browen Firth
1999 - ????	Nick Evans
???? - 2014	Debbie Collinge
2014 - present	Daren Wilkinson & Jessica Grunewald

Kershaw House

Work in progress

LOST

The Abbey Inn

Abbey Lane, Newlands opened 1851, closed 1911
Now a private house

Recorded in 1851. Rebuilt in 1873 (?). The Alehouse Register has this pub as belonging to the Halifax Brewing Company.
In 1905 it was a Whitaker Pub

The pub closed in 1911 following the Licensing Act [1904]

Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

1851: John Hanson
1861: James Spencer
1871: James Spencer
1881: Thomas Taylor
1891: Jabez Butterworth
1896: Richard Alderson
1897: Laurence Power
1901: Emily Power
1905: William Boocock

The Bridge End Hotel

3 Brook Street Opened 1905, closed 1949.
Demolished, it's site is now used as car parking spaces at the 'Bridge end'

Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

1905: Albert Crowther
1908: Samuel Crossley – (Lic. transfer 14 Oct 08)
1911: Samuel Crossley
1912: John George Broadbent – (Lic. transfer 4 Mar 12)
1914: Harry Callighan – (Lic. transfer 7 Oct 1914)
1914: Violetta Callighan – (Lic. transfer 7 Oct 1914)
1919: Harry Callighan – (Lic. transfer 7 May 19)
1926: Ben Bailey – (Lic. transfer 8 Dec 26)
1928: Albert Morton – (Lic. transfer 9 Feb 28)
1931: Enoch Shaw – (Lic. transfer 5 Feb 31)

Harry Callaghan signed over the license to his daughter when he joined up to fight in WW1. He is listed on the Luddenden Working Men's Club role of Honour (Sergeant Harry Callighan Army Ordnance Corps).

The Forrester's Arms

Brook Street, Luddenden. Opened in 1860, closed 1939.
All the houses on Brook Street have been demolished and there is no signage for the street in the village. IT is however, the foot path that leads from the bridge on High Street through to Spring Bank, the path that runs along the side of the river.

The site of the Forresters Arms is now a private garden.
This pub may also have been renamed as The Ship Inn towards the end of it's existence.

Goose Nest

Luddenden Dean
Opened in 1885, closed 1905.
Possible the building currently known as Goose Green on Catherine House Lane.

The Granby

Now a private house, Granby House on High Street, Luddenden.

Opened in 1871, closed 1933

The inn was owned by George Bedford Whitaker of the Grove Brewery, Brearley until 1905 when it passed to Whitaker's. The pub closed in 1933, after the death of Lizzie, the wife of the last landlord Edmund White.

Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

1871: Jonas Bloomer
1881: William Henry Barrett
1891: Edward Greenwood
1895: Mary Marshall
1898: Mary Marshall
1898: John Henry Thomas
1909: John Henry Thomas
1909: James Fletcher
1917: James Fletcher
1917: Mrs Ruth Fletcher
1922: Mrs Ruth Fletcher
1922: Sam Ogden
1926: Sam Ogden
1926: Sam Walker
1931: Sam Walker
1931: Edmund White
1933: Edmund White

Little Grace's

Luddenden Dean

Closed in 1895.

The Highwayman

Work in progress

The Murgatroyd Arms

78 High Street, Luddenden.
Opened in 1770, closed in 1939.

Now a private house.
This was one of many local pubs in the area that had it's own brewhouse and most likely used grains malted at Luddenden Cornmill.

The Halifax Courier [Saturday 8th July 1854] advertised:

Sale by Auction
at the Murgatroyd Arms, Luddenden on the instructions of Messrs Hartley and John Murgatroyd the owners.

All that Inn, Murgatroyd Arms, situate in Luddenden and now in the occupation of Henry Patchett, with Beer House, Stable, Mistal, Glazier's shop, outbuildings and appurtenances also the open space of ground in front of the said Inn, together with part of the garden behind.

More information on this auction can be found here:

The Last days of Murgatroyd Control of The Cornmill

Full Auction listing in the Halifax Courier

At the auction, it was bought by W & J Aspinall, they ran the Springhead Brewery at Mount Tabor

Warley Urban District Council held meetings at the Murgatroyd's Arms until they acquired a Council room (which was on the ground floor of the Chapel at the bottom of Halifax Lane. This building was Luddenden Working Men's club in the 1960's -70's and is now residential flats).
In 1904, the pub was still owned by Harry Aspinall of Mount Tabor. The pub closed in 1939.

The licence was transferred to the New Inn, Skircoat Green which then became the Murgatroyd Arms.

The building was bought by Luddenden Church and used for storage. It became known as Church House

The Red Lion

Luddendenfoot.

Also known as The Old Red Lion. Opened in 1811.
This was on the site of the derelict building at the bottom of Luddenden Lane. Later known as The General Rawden and finally The Coach & Horses.

Branwell Brontë drank here when he worked at Luddendenfoot station. The pub closed in 1877.
In 1879, it was demolished and replaced by the General Rawdon.

The Rising Sun

Lower Slack, Wainstalls, (1881 Census). This is between Wainstalls school and the old Co-op building and is now a private house. The row of cottages is known as Sun Buildings.

The Ship Inn

See The Foresters Arms

The Temperance Hotel

Luddenden Work in progress

The Traveller's Rest

Duke Street This was open from 1861 to 1938.
It is now a private house.

J. Murgatroyd & Son built a band room next to the pub for their Oats Royd Mills Brass Band.

Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

1861: William Fletcher
1884: William Fletcher
1891: Thomas Greenwood
1896: Thomas Greenwood
1896: Mrs Mary Greenwood
1904: Mrs Mary Greenwood
1904: Mitchell Greenwood
1905: Mitchell Greenwood
1905: Fred Clegg
1915: Fred Clegg
1911: John Henry Thomas
1920: John Henry Thomas
1920: Tom Wilson
1923: Tom Wilson
1923: Ellis Sutcliffe
1929: Ellis Sutcliffe
1929: Percy Simpson
1937: Percy Simpson

The Wolf Inn

High Street Fold, Luddenden Built in 1652, this was one of the oldest buildings in the village, this building was Luddenden Working Men's club from 1880 to 1946. Demolished in the 1950's

Here are four newspaper articles about the building:

Wolf Inn (and also Bridge Inn)
Wolf Inn prior to demolition
Wolf Inn and Beavoir Works
Council accepts reponsibility of Inn
Wolf Inn offered as gift to Council

Working Mens Clubs

LUDDENDEN WORKING MEN'S CLUB Formed in 1880 it was originally in the Wolf Inn.
In 1946 it moved into the former chapel building on High Street near the bottom of Halifax Lane. This building is now residential flats.

LUDDENDENFOOT WORKING MEN'S CLUB Opened in 1882 on Station Road, Luddendenfoot in the pub pub now know as The Old Brandy Wine. Later it was a building in Kershaw. After it closed in the 1970's it became Oscar's Bar but this was demolished in the 1990's when the current estate was built.

Notice of Closure (26/04/1996)
General piece about closure of WMCs in the valley (16/07/1994)