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What Was The Public House Called?
From this photo there was a public house in front of the town hall over the road but I cannot remember what that was called, could anybody help?
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RE: RE: What Was The Public House Called?
I don't remember a pub near the Town Hall, but in the early 1940s I worked at the Empire Theatre, which is now a multi-storey building. When I was young we had a railway station very close to the Town Hall from where we got day trips to the seaside via Thornhill station. I have lots of memories to share of when we had 5 cinemas in Dewsbury. You can contact me on: cunninghamcyril@gmail.com. I would love to get a reply because I have not been back there since 1950. I was married on Novembr 26th 1949 and my darling and I are still together. I would not change my darling for anything. She is 90 and I am 86. Hope to hear from someone. Kind regards, Cyril. BYE!
Comment from Cyril Cunningham on Tuesday, 18th January 2011.
RE: RE: What Was The Public House Called?
Hi Cyril, in 1915 there was the Scarbro Hotel but I can't see anything on my photos but shops, it was on the corner which eventually became Hiltons Shoes and is now a homeware shop. I'm not sure if the above info is of any help but thought I would try. I was born in 1977 and still live in Dewsbury now, it's changed a lot over the years and you probably wouldn't recognise most of Dewsbury. The Playhouse has been demolished, the bus station has moved, there is a new precinct, in fact there isn't much left which is a shame. I'm currently working on a project about Dewsbury and wanting to film a documentary about Dewsbury in the summer. If you have any stories you would like to share that I could use in my documentary please get in touch, it would be nice to hear from you. This is my first project and I have been working on it for over a year, researching Dewsbury's past years. If you require any info please also get in touch because I can look over old pics for information. Bye for now, Simon.
Comment from Simon Reed on Friday, 18th February 2011.
RE: RE: What Was The Public House Called?
Yes, to the very left of the picture is a hanging sign for the Black Bull - it's still there on the corner of Northgate and the street called Market Place (but isn't). I just used Google Maps and street view to look at the name 'cos I couldn't remember.
I worked at Woolworths in Dewsbury in the early 70's (heck, still there in street view!) and as lads we would nip to the pub for a pint on Saturday dinnertime - 'cept the Black Bull wouldn't serve us - something daft about not being old enough. I told 'em, "give it to me, I'll sup it, what's age got to do with it" - but I was only 16 at the time!
That's the nearest pub to the Town Hall from what I remember.
Comment from Gordon Sharpe on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011.
RE: RE: What Was The Public House Called?
There were 2 pubs which stick in my memory as being near to the town hall, one was the Scarborough Hotel and the other was the Great Northern. I was born in Dewsbury in 1943 and lived on Upper Cross Street off Bradford Road near Mill Road. When I left school I worked at Harrisons of Dewsbury as a motor mechanic and I walked to Saville Town, Mill Street East, passing both these pubs and Caddies ice cream parlour on my way to the long causeway and over the old railway bridge over the Calder.
Comment from Arthur Mortimer on Thursday, 4th August 2011.
RE: RE: What Was The Public House Called?
I may be wrong about the Great Northern being near the town hall, I think it was called the Granby Hotel, they used to have a pianist and a good old sing-along on Friday nights but I never went inside, even when I was 18.
Comment from Arthur Mortimer on Friday, 5th August 2011.
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Glad to see everyone talking about the old public houses in Dewsbury. My family history research shows we had links to a few of the pubs around the area - in particular the Elephant and Castle on Vulcan Road (Thomas Oxley and Martha and William Day and the Black Bull (Eunice and Sam Steel). This was in the 1800s. If anyone has any pictures of either Black Bull or Vulcan Road area, we would be thrilled to see them. We still have a relation in the area. Regards.
Comment from Deborah Oxley on Friday, 12th August 2011.
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I am researching a family called Auty who had a pub in Dewsbury in 1881 on Halifax Road called The Corporation Inn. Does anyone know if is still standing pehaps under a new name and if so where?
Comment from Dorothy Griffin on Friday, 19th August 2011.
RE: RE: What Was The Public House Called?
The pub opposite the Town Hall was called the Scarborough Hotel and the entrance was only small. As you walked along Long Causeway from Hilton's shoe shop towards the bus station, the door to the Scarborough jutted out maybe 4 to 5 feet - the width of the door - then the pub wall continued at this level along the Long Causeway. Because it didn't have a big doorway it was not as noticeable as today's pubs or, in fact, the other pubs in the town. To find it on old photo's you would have to look for this unique feature as there wasn't anything else to make it stand out. If I remember correctly there were 2 windows along the wall that were leaded and had 'Scarborough Hotel' written into them in coloured glass - like stained glass.
The step was quite large and squarish and was tiled in little mosaic type tiles in white with the name of the pub and a border round it in black (or am I imagining this?) - definitely white tiles.
Comment from Betty Sanders on Monday, 9th January 2012.
RE: RE: What Was The Public House Called?
The pub was the Scarboro Hotel, my uncle was the landlord in the early'60's and I used to go there in my dinner break from Heckmondwike grammar school, I'd catch a "G" bus, rush to the pub, eat my meal which my aunty always had ready, then rush back for the bus, which ran quite often, as I recall. It was a bit of a spooky place, I think he was the last tenant before it closed, the top floor was creepy, dusty and unused and I wasn't too keen to go up there. It was by that time a bit of a rough house and he only took it to get a foot in the door so to speak, and he had a savage black german shepherd dog in order to control things a bit. Anyway, he move to the New Pack Horse in Hightown when he finished there, so that was the end of my dinnertime trips to Dewsbury.
Comment from Richard Lord on Saturday, 19th May 2012.