~ Public Houses in Keighley ~


In 1869 beer houses were brought under the control of local magistrates. They had to improve the conditions to gain a license, many closed down. What were beer houses,  usually known only by the land lords name, after 1869 they acquired names, some pubs also changed their names for one reason or another, a few having the same name, only being distinguishable by the addition of hotel, inn etc. There maybe errors in the below list, if anyone can help us with correct or additional information we would be very grateful of an email

Many of the Landlord names were taken from directories in the 1800's - early 1900's. The information here can not be guaranteed as correct. If anyone as any information or photographs please email us. Where we have been able to aquire photos they have been added, many taken from Keighley.plus.com, another useful site about Keighley

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Baines's Directory  Directory of 1822 Taken from Pigot's Directory of 1829: Pigot's Directory of 1834 White's Directory of 1837
Inns and Taverns,
Black Horse, Martha Cook, Low st.
Devonshire Arms, Samuel Morgan, (post chaise) Church street
Dusty Miller, Thos. Ackroyd, Damside
Fleece, John Walker Low street
Hare and Hounds, Booth Beecroft, Low street
Hole in the Wall, Thomas Corlass, Church street
Hope & Anchor, Martha Edmundson, Hope street
King's Arms, Jph. Booth, Church st.
Mason's Arms, Sarah Fowlds, Low st.
Rodney, Elizabeth Fox, Church street
Sun, Hannah Dunbar, Church street
Wellington, Ed. Cooper, Royd's house

Maltsters,
Atkinson Joseph, Elope street

Spirit and Wine Merchants,
Dawson Robert, 10, High street
Richardson George, High green

 

Inns,
Crown, John Ellison, Market place
Devonshire Arms, Samuel Morgan, Market Place
Fleece, John Walker, Low street
King's Arms, Joseph Booth, Market place


Maltsters,
Atkinson Joseph, Hope street
Barstow William, Eastwood


Taverns & Public Houses,
Black Bull, Elizabeth Ackroyd, Old Bridge street
Black Bull, Abraham Wilkinson, Haworth
Black Horse, Martha Cook, Low street
Coach & Horses, John Ogden, Stanbury
Commercial Inn, William Weatherhead Church street
Cross, William Thomas -Haworth
Cross, Joseph Wignall, Stanbury
Fleece Greenwood Wilson, Haworth
Hare & Hounds, Booth Beecroft, Low street
Hole-in-the-Wall, Thomas Corlass, Market place
Hope & Anchor, M. Edmondson, Hope street
King's Arms, John Gledhill, Haworth
Lord
Rodney, William Fox Market place
Mason's Arms, Sarah Foulds, Low street
Punch Bowl, Joshua Sunderland, Stanbury
Sun, Thomas Ackroyd, Haworth
Three Horse Shoes, John Parker; Eastwood row
White Lion, William Garnett, Haworth
White Swan, George Corlass, Low bridge
Wool & Booth Banks, Acre square

Wine & Spirit Merchants,
Beaumont Thomas, High street
Dawson Charles Knowlton, High street
Thomas William, Haworth
Wall Thomas, Cook lane
Inns,
Crown, John Ellison, 21 Church st
Devonshire Arms, Samuel Morgan, 1 Church st
Fleece, John Walker, 98 Low st
King's Arms, Joseph Booth, 35 Church st

Maltsters,
Bairstow William, Eastwood's row
Blakey John, Low bridge mill
Lund John, Damside

Taverns & Public Houses,
Angel, William Robinson, 27 Baptists square
Black Bull, James Ramsden, Old Bridge st
Black Horse, Francis Topham, 6 Low st
Burlington Arms, Jonas Ellison, Denbigh square
Commercial, Joseph Lapish, 10 Church st
Free
masons' Arms, Sarah Fowlds, 81 Low st
Hare & Hounds, Benjamin Mellor, 31 Low st
Hole in the Wall, Thomas Corlass, 11 Church st
Hope & Anchor, Martha Edmundson, Hope st
Lord
Rodney, William Fox, 23 Church st
Red Lion, John Waddington, Eastwood's row
Roe Buck, Thomas Smith, Utley
White Swan, George Corlass, Low bridge
Woolpack, Thomas Dawson, Brick houses

Retailers of Beer,
Cure Sarah, 5 New st
Graham William, 36 New Bridge st
Hagar John, Goose eye
Harrison Robert, Ing row
Hey John, 26 Sun st
Sharp Isaac, Low bridge
Smith James, Hope st
Smith Samuel, Goose eye
Stodart George, 11 High st
Swire James, 5 Green st
Weatherhead Esther, 41 South st
Whittaker James, 30 South st

Wine & Spirit Merchants,
Beaumont Thomas, 31 High st
Dawson William Knowlton, 35 Upper Green
Sykes John, 6 North st
Wall Thomas, 19 Cook lane

Shopkeepers & Traders,
Westrop Esther, retailer of beer, Oakworth

Inns & Taverns,
Angel, Robinson Wm. Baptist street
Black Bull, Laycock Jas. Old Bridge st
Black Horse, Corlass Jno. 5 Low street
Burlington Arms and Market Tavern, Ellison Jonas, New market
Commercial Inn, Lapish Jph, 9 Church st
Crown Inn, Ellison John, 21 Church street
Devonshire Arms Inn, Morgan Saml. Church Street
Fleece, Walker John, 98 Low street
Fleece, Birtwhistle John, Lane ends
Golden Lion, Shackleton William, 105 Low st
Hare & Hounds, Mellor Benj. 31 Low st
Hole in the Wall, Corlass Thos. 14 Church st
Hope & Anchor, Edmundson Jph. Hope st
King's Arms, Booth Joseph, 35 Church st
Masons' Arms, Foulds Sarah, 81 Low street
Red Lion, Waddington John, Eastwood Row
Reservoir Tavern, Ingham Chpr, Calver Syke hill
Roe Buck Smith Thos. Utley
White Swan, Corlass George,  Low bridge
Woolpack, Dawson Thos, Brick houses

Beer Houses,
Blakey Thomas, New st
Clayton Wm. Bog thorn
Hagar John, Goose eye
Hey John, 26 Sun st
Midgley Wm. Newsham
Naylor Mary, South st
Ramsden Jno. Erw
Shackleton William, Hope st
Sharp Isaac, Low bdge
Smith James, Hope st
Swire Jas. 5 Green st
Walbank Jph. Utley
Ward Thos. Old bdg st

Maltsters,
Blackey Jno. Low bridge
Lund John, Damside
Walker John, 98 Low st

Wine and Spirit Merchants,
Beaumont Thos, 31 High Street
Dawson Wm. 35 Upper Green
Sykes John, 6 North st
Thomas Wm. & Son, 13 North street
Wall Thomas, Cook lane

Airedale  Heifer
Built mid 1800's pub and barn 1834 landlady Jane Smith
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Albert Hotel
 
The present Albert replaced a smaller one in 1899
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Angel
,
27 Baptists square, William Robinson,

Angel Inn
Turkey Street, possibly the same inn as above. The upper rooms were used for staging plays.


Bay Horse
,
Westgate area. Demolished during the clearance of the slums of Pinnfold and Westgate.


Beaumont Arms
.
There was listed a Thomas Beaumont, 31 High st  as a Wine & Spirit Merchants, in the Pigot's Directory of 1834

Black Bull
,
Old Bridge st James Ramsden, - Laycock Jas.

Black Horse
5 or 6 Low st
Martha Cook, she was also the postmistress 1785 - 1833, she was daughter of the first postmistress Mrs. Irvin. The family ran the post office in Keighley for 127 years.  -  Francis Topham, - Corlass Jno 


Blue Nag.


Boltmakers Arms
small GBG-listed pub,

Bradford Arms
Wellington Street.


Brewery Arms
Longcroft

Bridge Inn
Bridge Street, demolished 1938


Brown Cow
Cross Leeds St browncowkeighley.co.uk

Burlington Arms 
Market Street, Jonas Ellison,

Brunswick Arms.
Thomas Blakely

Cavendish Hotel
 
Built 1900
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Commercial Inn,
 
16 Church st . 
Landlord Joseph Lapish, then Mary Ann Houldsworth 1902.
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Cricketers Arms
 
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Cross Inn,
Haworth oldwhitelionhotel.com

Crossroads Inn
 
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Crown
,
21 Church st Demolished in 1989. Landlord Joseph & Hannah Turner 1880. Landlord mid 1800's John Ellison,

The town drinking fountain was located outside.
Coaches that called here:
To Bradford, the Mail Car 
1829 To Halifax, the Crown Union, from the Crown Inn, every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday morning at seven. The Crown Union ran in 1828 from Keighley every Tuesday via Bingley, Shipley, Idle, Calverley to Leeds, returning at 5 p.m.
Mail Car (from Skipton).  1829 To Bradford, the Mail Car (from Skipton) calls at the Post-office, every afternoon at two-and a Market Coach, from the Crown Inn, very Thursday morning at seven.
Getting to Keighley from Leeds:

Devonshire Arms (Hotel), Church st: Built about 1788 Possibly on the site of the old Roebuck Inn) (Red Buck)  T. Ecroyd was proprietor 1884
Samuel Morgan, (post chaise)  To Kendal, To Leeds, the Union
Invincible.  The Invincible. 1829 To Preston, the Invincible from Leeds, Royal Hotel, 161 Briggate Leeds, calls at the Devonshire Arms, every morning (Sundays excepted) at half past nine; goes thro' Colne, Burnley and Blackburn. The Invincible, 1824-1842, left Leeds daily at 7 a.m. via Bingley, Crosshills, Colne, Blackburn to Preston, to meet the 3-30 coach for Blackpool.
Royal Union, post coach. in 1837 the Union coach  ran from Hull to Liverpool, Selby and Leeds. It started at 5.30am from Hull, arriving at Leeds at noon and Liverpool at 6.30pm. 1822 Royal Union, post coach from Leeds, to the Devonshire Arms, daily, (Sundays excepted) at 1, noon, returns at 4 afternoon. 1829 To Kendal, the Union (from Leeds) calls at the Devonshire Arms, every day (Sundays excepted) at half-past 12; goes through Skipton, Settle, Ingleton and Kirkby Lonsdale,  1829 To Leeds, the Union (from Kendall calls at the Devonshire Arms, every afternoon (Sundays excepted) at four-the Invincible (from Preston) every afternoon (Sundays excepted) at a quarter past three
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Dick Hudsons ~
The Fleece, East Morton, Keighley.  Photo keighley.plus.com

Druids Arms
Thwaites Brow Road

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Dusty Miller,
Thos. Ackroyd, Damside
There is no further mention of this pub after 1822.

Eastwood Tavern
39 Bradford Rd

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Flappit

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Fleece,
98 Low st. John Walker,

Demolished in 1934 (Marks and Spencer now stands here) Kirkstall Prize Ales. In the 1820's it was used as a meeting place for a wool combers club.
Coaches that left or called here:
The Tradesman for Bradford. The Wonder to Halifax.   To Skipton, the Mail car. 
Royal Alexander,  1822 Royal Alexander, post coach, from the Fleece, to Leeds, every day, (Sundays excepted) departs 7 morning, returns 8 evening. 1829 To Scarborough, the Royal Alexander (from Skipton) calls at the Fleece, every morning (Sundays excepted) at half past six during the season, goes thro' Bradford, Leeds, York, Malton &c.
In 1820 the Alexander left Leeds daily at 4 a.m. in summer, later in winter, for Bradford, where another coach carried its freight, as required, to Skipton, via Bingley. This coach ran for over twenty years.
the Alexander (from Skipton) calls at the Fleece, every morning (Sundays excepted) at half-past 6;

Fleece, Lane ends  Oakworth, Birtwhistle John. It is believed that the village lock up was in the cellar. Now called the Golden Fleece..  

Foresters Arms,
Bridge St Oakworth. Closed in 1970. Re-opened in 1971 as the 'Fab Thirties Club'. closed in 1974. Now houses.

Fountain Inn
 
18 Church St 

Built late 1800's Was two houses, Now the Red Pig. On  13 Mar 1901 the Keighley News reported the death of Charles Wadsworth,  aged 40 as living here.


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Freemasons
Arms,
81 Low st See Masons Arms Sarah Fowlds,

Friendly Inn
2 Aireworth St


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Gardeners Arms,
Hanover Street.

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Globe
2 Parkwood St

Goats Head Inn.
Steeton

Golden Fleece.
(Possibly the Fleece mentioned above) Stood at the corner of Low Street and Cook Lane prior to 1845 and was purchased at the sale of the Parker property in Keighley by the agent of Lord George H Cavendish proprietor of the Devonshire Arms in order to do away with the rivalry between the two inns.

Golden Lion
,
105 Low st Shackleton William,

Grapes
,
High Street.
Jonas Crossley 1880.
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Great Northern
12-14 Halifax Rd


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Guide Inn,
Hainworth

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Hare & Hounds,
31 Low st, on the corner of Wellington Street demolished 1966. Hey's ales. Benjamin Mellor, - Booth Beecroft 



Hole in the Wall
,
Thomas Corlass,  Church st

Hope & Anchor
,
Hope st Martha Edmundson & Edmundson Jph.

Hope & Anchor
245, South St.

As this is in the same area, one assumes that this and the one listed above are one and the same.


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Horse and Jockey
,
Greengate,

demolished 1962. In 1869 John Smith the landlord was refused  his license due to it being used by prostitutes, he himself also lived with one. It is possible that this beer house was once the house named Cabbage House.

King's Arms,35 Church st. Joseph Booth,  Demolished in 1960's. Once an old coaching inn. Levi & Sarah Driver 1880.


Above front of Kings, below the yard



Kings Head
South Street

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Lord Rodney,
Church st.

The oldest pub in Keighley. Believed to have originated in the 17th century Before 1780 was called the  Ye
Olde Red Lion
. A former Landlord in the 18th century, John Drake was related to Sir Francis Drake. At some point in the late 1700's the inn was sold to a John Clapham for four hundred and fifty pounds, this also included a dwelling house, which was occupied by William Fox.  William Fox &  Elizabeth Fox. 1880  Joseph Whitewham.
While digging, in 1936, workmen unearth a skull and some bones out side the inn. As a church as stood near by for over 800 years, it must be assumed that the line of the church wall was altered during renovations and rebuilding, and that the inn is built on part of the old grave yard. Strangely it is not listed in the trade directory of 1837.

Market Tavern, (Arms)
Denbigh square

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Marquis of Granby
Isaac Wilkinson 1834

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Mason's Arms,
81 Low st. Sarah Fowlds,   The 'original' Mason's Arms stood at the corner of Hanover Street and Low Street back in the 1820s. The building still stands there but is no longer a licensed premises. The Mason's Arms moved to its current location on Longcroft in1853

New Inn
Cross Roads

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Oddfellows Arms,
Cavendish Street. Demolished 1900, the Cavendish Hotel now stands here.

Oddfellows on the left

Queens Head,
Cavendish Street. Demolished 1900

Queens Head centre

Queens Building / Queens Hotel / Station Hotel.
Bradford Road at the corner of  Dalton Lane.  keighley.plus.com Now occupied by Richard Craven electrical. The Carr Head estate, Cowling, was auctioned here, once the home of the Wainman family. News item 1st June 2006 To be demolished for being uninteresting  keighleynews.co.uk

Queen Street Arms
,
(New Street) Queen Street,



was commonly called the Grinning Rat. Propertied to have once been  a coaching in, with blacksmith's forge.  Land lord Thomas Blakely. The whole area was demolished in 1966. Last Land Lady Edith Riley. Sold Heys Ales.

Red Lion
,
Eastwood's row, John Waddington,  now the Eastwood Tavern 39 Bradford Rd, was possibly called the Three Horse Shoes before being called the Red Lion.

Reservoir Tavern
Calver Syke hill,
 
Christopher Ingham 1864, Napoleonic War veteran. John Teal. Chpr Ingham ,
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Roe Buck
,
Utley, Thomas Smith


Royal Hotel
Damside

until 1998 when it became the Royal Oak. Harry Tap, real name Henry Hargreaves Thompson, landlord, started a club , the Keighley Hen Pecked Club.  Which involved a cradle for rocking unreasonable wifes. and some rules, the cradle was often displayed in galas

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Scar Top Brewery.
William & Robert Heaton was living at Scar Top Farm at the time of the construction of Ponden reservoir & Watersheddles. He saw a cash making opportunity, the workers were a long way from any village. So he built a brewery onto the side of the farm, which consisted of a large underground store cellar, barrel wash house, wagon shed, counting house, brew house, square rooms store, vatting rooms, refrigerator and settling back rooms, hop chamber and malt room. The business must have grown beyond supplying the works, which by 1873 there were some 300 men working on the reservoirs. By 1877 they had 3 horses, an ale wagon, ale cart, sprung cart and a dog cart; one set of harness was silver mounted. The reservoirs were completed in 1877. May 1878 there was an advert  for the sale of, Brewery, farm and three cottages. It was advertised later 1st June 1878 in the Keighley News, to take place at the Crown Hotel, it must not have sold as it is advertised again September 1878, but this time it also includes household furniture and livestock. It must have failed to sell, and things must have become serious, November 1878 another advertisement, this time being sold by Order of Mortgagees, Under Power of Sale.

Ship Inn
West Lane

Part of the Bentlys Yorkshire Beers (BYB) brewery chain. closed on 5th April 1969. Good Friday, last licensee’s was Jack and Maureen Beck and the last barman was Mr. Robert Wood.

Shoulder of Mutton, Thwaites

Silent Inn
Hob Lane, Stanbury. One story tells that this inn took its name after Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed at the inn for several weeks during the 1745 Jacobean uprising. The villagers were told to 'keep silent' about their  guest's presence.  Tradition holds that a kindly old landlady provided food for the wild cats that foraged on the moors. She would announce feeding time by ringing a bell from a doorway of the inn that has since been blocked up, and this is where a ghostly tinkling is now heard.

Star Hotel
North Street

Station Hotel
See Queens Building

Sun
,
Church street, Hannah Dunbar,

Timothy Taylor's
original brewery was on Cook Lane toft.btinternet.co.uk

Turkey Inn

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Wellington Royd's House. Listed in the trade directory of 1822 with Landlord Edward Cooper, but never listed again

Wellington Hotel,
Hanover Street,   Built around 1853, Closed in 1989

White Horse ,
New Side Road. BYB house.

 

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White Lion,
Haworth, Coaching Inn  oldwhitelionhotel.com

White Swan
,
Low bridge, George Corlass,

Wool & Booth Banks, Acre square

Victoria Hotel,
Cavendish Street

Vine
Tavern,
Hope Place

Woodhouse,
later renamed The Rovers Return

Woolpack
,
(Brick houses) King Street. Thomas Dawson,


 
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Worth Valley Inn,
Halifax Road

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Volunteers
(Vaults) Lawkholme lane  bought by Timothy Taylor  in December 1859

Coffee Houses.
(Introduced by the Methodists)
Acorn Coffee House, Low Street
Alexandra Coffee House open 1884 in East Parade

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