An advertisement for the business in The Leeds Mercury of 3rd
August 1833 announced
That old-established & well-accustomed PUBLIC HOUSE, known by the
Sign of the SADDLE INN, Halifax, together with the adjoining
premises, viz. the HOUSE and PRINTING-OFFICE occupied many years by
the late Mr Jacobs.
Also the several BUTCHERS' SHOPS and TENEMENTS thereto belonging with
every Convenience and Privilege attached.
This is an eligible Opportunity for the profitable investment of
Capital, the Premises being situated in the Centre of one of the most
thriving Towns in the West-Riding
In 1896, it was demolished and a new building was incorporated into the new Halifax Borough Market.
A promotional card for the Hotel announced
SADDLE HOTEL, HALIFAX HEADQUARTERS OF THE HALIFAX FLYING CLUB, HALIFAX CANINE SOCIETY, Farmer's Association. Boot and Shoe. Blacksmiths. ODDFELLOWS Glory Lodge, Widow's Repose, Good Samaritans. Large Assembly Room. Seating accommodation for 140. Large and small Parties catered for. Tel. 3629 |
Halifax Town AFC was founded at a meeting here on 23rd May 1911.
The pub closed in 1966.
A Lipton's store occupied the building for a time.
When the building was demolished [1960s], it was replaced by a modern building, and this has been successively occupied by
See Ancient Order of Foresters, A. J. Farnell and Lister Gibson
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
- 1822: Joseph Lassey
- 1829: James Worstenholm
- 1834: Isaac Worstenholme
- 1836: Thomas Worstenholme
- 1837: Joseph Hirst
- 1843: Joseph Hirst
- 1844: John Hirst
- 1845: Joshua Horner
- 1850: Matilda Horner
- 1861: Matilda Horner
- 1864: Hanson Brierley
- 1874: William Holgate
- 1874: Joseph Crossley
- 1881: Charles Fletcher
- 1887: Sam Barber
- 1894: James Greenwood
- 1901: James Greenwood
- 1905: James Greenwood
- 19??: A. Brearley
- 1936: Joseph S. Hayes
It was named for the Patron St of Shoemakers.
The inn and John Wood's Cropping Shop in Huddersfield were the
headquarters of local Luddites.
The inn was the scene of an important Luddite meeting in March,
1812 where it was decided to attack William Cartwright's mill at Rawfolds and other mills.
The inn was demolished in 1844, and the Old Crispin Inn erected on
the site
See
Crispin, Halifax,
Old Crispin, Halifax,
St Crispin Republican Club and
Upper Crispin, Halifax
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The former Comet store at Barum Top became a pub, known successively as the Barcentro, Halifax, the Barracuda [February 2002], and the Salvation [2013]
Built in 1748.
Elland Cross stood near the Hotel.
There is an earlier carved stone tablet with the Savile coat of arms, the motto
and the date 1748.
In 1922, Webster's bought the pub for £5,000.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs.
See
Britannia House and
Elland Window Cleaning Company
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The pub closed in 1932
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Recorded in 1735.
On 21st July 1868, the Inn and adjoining shops were demolished for
Bull Green improvement
Closed in 19??.
The building was bought by Halifax Corporation and converted into
housing for those working on nearby Widdop Reservoir
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
was described by magistrates as
in the Annual Brewster Sessions [1860]
The name is spelled in various ways, including
Shakspear Hotel [1874].
The original Shakespeare Hotel was on Southgate adjacent
to, and north of, the old Theatre Royal.
Theatregoers could reach the Hotel without going outside.
There was also a passage connecting the theatre and the pub and this
was known as Ammonia Avenue
In July 1857, the pub was advertised
The 2 properties were demolished.
The new Shakespeare was built round the corner in Horton
Street and opened in 1903.
The new Theatre Royal was built, occupying the whole site, and
opened on 4th August 1905.
The property is now [March 2014] known as the Romeo & Juliet.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two.
See
Magistrates' Office, Halifax and
Shakespeare Street, Halifax
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The pub closed in 1954.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Built around 1817.
The pub was named for the sea battle off Boston, Massachusetts,
during the War of 1812, in which the British HMS Shannon
captured the American USS Chesapeake on 1st June 1813.
It was a Whitaker pub [1894].
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
On 18th April 1928, the licences were transferred from the T' Cat i' th' Window, Halifax and the Flying Horse, Halifax, to the
new Shay Hotel.
In December 2011, the Hotel was demolished
There is some confusion between this pub and the Shears, West Vale
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
In 1888, this and the New Inn, Holdsworth Street were sold by Clement Holdsworth.
This is discussed in the books
Halifax Pubs and
Sketches of Old Halifax
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It was a Stocks pub [1903].
It was rebuilt in 1904.
In 1987, it became Dean Clough Inn.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The public house stood on the site of a 16th farm originally known as
Lambert House
It was listed as Lambert Hall [1841], Lambert House
[1851].
There is some confusion between this pub and the Shears, Greetland.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs.
The building was demolished and a Co-Op store built on the site
[2012].
During the demolition, no cellars were found in the building.
Before the redevelopment, the outline of the original Shears
Inn could be seen as a white shape on the end wall of 6a Stainland Road, West Vale.
See
Greetland Local Board and
Junction, West Vale
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Woodhouse Football Club had their dressing rooms here [1888]
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Aka The Riggin.
It closed [19??] and was converted into housing
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Some of the injured in the 1907 Pye Nest Tram Disaster were treated
here.
This is discussed in the books
Halifax Pubs and
Halifax Pubs Volume Two.
See
Sam Senior
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
A room is dated 1643.
On 5th August 1890, the former Shibden Mill was sold to
Webster's brewery.
The mill pond was drained and filled in to prevent water seeping into
local mines, and the car park now stands on the site.
The present inn was the miller's home.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It is said that the boatmen on the canal would disembark at the
Anchor Bridge, then go for a drink in the Ship Inn,
and then run on to rejoin their barge at the Huddersfield Road Bridge.
The pub closed in 1906 following the Licensing Act [1904].
Question:
If the pub really did close in 1906, does anyone know when it
re-opened?
The pub closed on 31st July 1936
Tenants when the address was Victoria Street:
Tenants when the address was Ship Street:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The property was taken over by Stocks Brewery in 1852.
The pub closed when the licence expired on 3rd January 1911.
Trade had fallen off after several local mills and works had closed.
It was a Stocks pub [until 1914].
It became a private dwelling and John Longbottom – the last
landlord – continued to live there.
See
Thomas Barker
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
See
Old White Beare, Norwood Green,
Prince of Wales, Brighouse and
Royal Oak, Halifax
Popularly known as the Top Shoulder – so as to distinguish it
from the Shoulder of Mutton, Hebden Bridge.
It closed in 1998.
It is now a private house
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It was a Ramsden pub.
The pub closed in 1974.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The pub closed in 1892
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Opened in 1778.
The pub closed in 1920
See
Mary Astin and
Stanleys Arms, Halifax
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It was a Grove pub.
Planning applications show that this was a Whitaker pub [February 1907].
It was boarded up [February 2011].
This is discussed in the books
Halifax Pubs and
Halifax Pubs Volume Two.
See
Grove Brewery, Brearley,
Bernard Hartley,
Hebden Bridge Economic Stores and
Top Shoulder, Blackshawhead
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The Midgley Radical Association met here.
During renovation after its closure as an inn in 1956, an old
pike-head – thought to date from its days as a Chartist
meeting-place – was found hidden above a doorway.
The pub closed on 30th April 1956.
The license was transferred to the Sportsman.
It is now a private house.
The inn sign is still visible.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs.
See
Halifax & Calder Vale Hunt,
Order of Peaceful Doves,
Isaac Townsend and
Acquilla Walker
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
In 1901, the pub – which was then owned by Harry Aspinall's
Spring Head Brewery at Mount Tabor – was rebuilt.
The pub closed [2nd February 1939] and the licence was transferred to
the Station Hotel at Holmfield
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It was a Grove pub,
then later it was a Whitaker pub.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two.
See
Stepping Stones, Mytholmroyd
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The building incorporates Priestley Hall.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Aka The Mutton Inn [1891]
Planning applications show that this was a Stocks pub [October 1903].
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Recorded on maps produced in 1854,
and is shown on the west side of Law Lane near the junction with Cain
Lane
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
About 1783, Mary and Jonas Turner established the pub.
The Toadcarr Library met here in 1817.
The name was changed to the House that Jack Built when it was
rebuilt by Jack Brook [1974].
It later took the name Jack's House, and remains so [2013]
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The pub closed in 1998.
There are plans to redevelop the site for residential use
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It was a Webster pub [December 1890].
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The pub closed in 1947
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The Loyal Georgean Society held their first meetings here.
Renamed Ring o' Bells
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Question:
Does anyone know exactly where the pub was located, or anything else
about it?
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
In August 1868, under the terms of the Halifax Improvements Acts, the New Slip Inn applied for, but was refused, a music and dancing licence
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
See
Upper Brackens
33 Corporation Street / Crib Lane.
This was originally a beer house.
It was a Whitaker pub.
The pub closed in 1967 and was demolished when Burdock Way was
constructed.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs.
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The pub closed in the 1960s.
The building was demolished in 1976.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The inn closed when the turnpike road was opened, and the licence was
transferred to the Spring Gardens Inn
The pub closed in 1910 following the Licensing Act [1904]
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
In the 19th century, the waters of the spring here were accredited
with special medicinal qualities.
The beer brewed here was also said to have beneficial properties.
The building was demolished in 19??
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
James Dawson bought the building and opened this as a
beerhouse known as the Black Horse in 1828.
About 1831, it was taken over by Jeremiah Howarth who re-named it
the Spinners Rest.
The pub closed in 19??.
It is now a private house.
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It was renamed MacMillan's [1983]
The name was changed to the Dog & Partridge, Lumbutts by 1909
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It was a Tetley house.
In 1930, Webster's bought the property for £850.
The pub closed in August 1959.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The front was rebuilt in 1904 by William Henry Dodgson Horsfall for
Ramsden's.
The pub was known as The Rose & Crown at the end of the
18th century.
The name then became the Cooper's Arms, and finally The
Sportsman.
See
Argyle Street, Halifax,
Henry Gaukroger and
Halifax & District Licensed Victuallers' Wine & Beersellers' Protection & Benevolent Association
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It was later known as the New Delight.
It is known locally as The Newdy
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Question:
Henry Shaw was landlord of the Sportsman in the 1871
census, and at the Hare & Hounds, Hipperholme in 1874.
Does anyone know whether the pub changed its name at some time?
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
This was originally a beer house.
It acquired a full licence in 1965.
It was a Stocks pub,
then later it was a Webster pub.
It is now [2015] a private house.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs Volume Two
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
In 1894, brewers Cotton & Wood leased the pub from the
licensee Joseph Mitchell.
This was the last surviving pub in Midgley.
It closed in 1990.
This is discussed in the book
Halifax Pubs
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The pub closed in 1911 following the Licensing Act [1904]
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
The pub closed in 1901.
The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company bought the land.
The building was amongst the property demolished to make way for
extensions to the railway
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
It was an Alderson pub.
The pub closed with the extinction of the licence [12th December
1914].
In 1915, James Alderson & Company Limited converted the pub into 3
cottages
Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:
One of a group of buildings at Damside, Soyland.
Opened as a pub in 1863.
This is discussed in the book
Our Home & Country.
There appears to be some overlap with this pub and the
Damside which was next door.
Closed in 1927.
It is now a private house called Dan y Coed / The Homestead
Be Fast
The Shades at the Granby
a frightful source of great disorder
To Be Let.
That old-established INN situate close to the Theatre and other
public buildings, with the right of brewing,
Satisfactory reasons given for leaving
selling ale, &c. here