Woodman Inn - Castleford

[Evie]

Thanks for the update Dave.

Hope you have luck with Henry, Shane.

I did a search for Woodman Terrace 1901 on FindMyPast but I am not a member so I couldn't see who was living there. I was hoping it would show the reference so I could check it out elsewhere. Sorry

Evie

[shanew147]

I think I've located the address in 1901 - RG13/4302/F14 page 18

The address is difficult to read but it's the last one on Woodman Terrace, and the Inn keeper at the address is a widow name Mary Ambler age 59... so no connection to my Henry yet that I can see.


Shane

[onefortheroad]

I've just had a close look at PerthTiger's photo link. The curve of the pavement and kerbstones is still there to the right of the pub. This was the entrance to Woodman Terrace which ran to the east immediately behind the pub.
When the houses were demolished in the 60's, the landlord bricked off the entrance to what was Woodman Terrace.
The electricity pylon is still there, so you can get an idea of where the pub was from your links to Google street view; it was where the sliproad to the M62 starts, past the traffic lights, on the southeast view.
On the view to the north, the pub was on the far right. The waste land before Stainburn Avenue was the in the form of farmland in the 60's/70's.

These are not merely my misty memories - I've been and had a couple of glasses of foaming ale in the Rock Inn, Glasshoughton, some three hundred yards or so from the Woodman. It still has plenty of customers who remember your pub Shane, all fondly but no-one could recall the name of the last landlord. But I'll be seeing a chap on Wednesday who will definitely know. I'll tap him up for as much info as possible and report back!

Dave

[shanew147]

cheers!... thanks for the update.

It's great to get some sort of a lead on my long lost gt-gt-grandfather at least.
 
Just to explain a little of the background, all we really had until recently on his later life was the name of the pub... and there seemed to be quite a few with the same name all over the Leeds area. We only saw the photo with Castleford detail noted on it, for the first time on Thursday - and cant believe that within just a couple of days we now know exactly where it was..

I understand that the photo was probably taken by Henry's eldest son during a visit to the area in the 1950s or 60s.


Shane

[onefortheroad]

Morning folks.

And a lovely morning it is in Yorkshire!
Up with the larks, I've had a nice little walk to the site of the Woodman Inn and Woodman Terrace.
What I didn't take into account was the extensive roadworks which blight Glasshoughton at the moment.
I really hope they don't spoil the photos for you, Shane.
I'll display them here, but if you want copies sending you'll need to PM me your email address.

[perth tiger]

iv been reading about the road works, people aint happy. just talked to my mum about the woodman, she remembers calling in a lot.

[onefortheroad]

Here's the view looking north, back to Glasshoughton village, with the houses of Stainburn Avenue visible beyond the construction workers' compound.

In the other two photos, the Woodman Inn and Woodman Terrace would have been roughly where the sliproad is. In fact, the sliproad would have been where the landlord built his brick wall across the road in the 60's.

When I find the name of the last landlord/landlady I'll post it.

Shane, let me know if you want these photos emailing.

Enjoy the weekend, Dave

[onefortheroad]

Hi Perth Tiger.

Your mum wasn't one of the late night lock-in dominoe team was she?

Yes the road works are driving folks mad. They are scheduled to last for 38 weeks and weekdays, Glasshoughton is gridlocked. That why I went to take the photos at 8.30 this Sunday morning. Being bank holiday weekend, come 11 o'clock, it'll be gridlock again with cars from all over the north trying to get into the Freeport retail outlet, B&Q and the new 'Xscape' snowdome/ski-slope. All built on the sight of the old coke ovens, the most toxic site in western europe!
All that development, which has given much needed employment to many local people, was built thanks to the work of 'YorkshireForward', one of the agencies our new government are getting rid of

Still, times change and we move on for better or for worse.

Regards,David

[perth tiger]

lol not the domino team. she was more your cinderella/rockerfellas in leeds i think. i was at xscape a few years ago, without the road works it was bad enough down there. the last house my dad owned was the first house on garden st on the right if you look from the rock. i spent many a hour in there in the 80's.