Woodman Inn - Castleford

[shanew147]

many thanks for the photos Dave... I'll pm you my email address

It's the same sunny day at the moment here in Dublin also.




Shane

[onefortheroad]

Perth Tiger, when you say first on the right, do you mean first terraced house or first of the two semis (I thing there were only two).
I knew a gentleman who lived in one of the semis back in the 70's, a nice gentleman called Jack Shelton. I think he lived in the first semi.
In the 90's our youngest son bought the first terraced house on the right ( strangely, no.10 Garden St.).
On the left, Scotts, who owned the shop on Rock Hill built their bungalow. 

Aaahh, memories

David

[perth tiger]

it was the first house in the 3. as you looked at it it had a garden from the house out to rock hill. just had a look on google maps, it looks a lot nicer now than when i last saw it.
wasn't there an old pub further up rockhill. probably white outside, more a little bar than anything

[onefortheroad]

Yes, it was just round the corner. It was the Rockhill Sports and Social Club - widely known as the Mucky Duck.
It was demolished about 5 years ago and replaced with an ugly block of flats. The owner, John Carter, is now the landlord of the Rock Inn and doing a pretty good job of it.
When you frequented the Rock in the 80's, the landlord would be John Windeatt, I suppose.
He took over from his father,Tom and made it a very popular venue. Unfortunately, he was 'a bit of a lad' and left the pub to live with his wife's best friend.
From there, the pub went from bad to worse and almost closed. It's now owned by Enterprise Inns and John Carter (from the Duck) is the tenant.

And that's thirty years condensed into one paragraph!

David

[perth tiger]

i cant remember who the landlord was, i do seem to recall been told he had left though  theres a lot of pubs that i used to go to back then. most sold tetleys and it had to be a good pint. the shoulder down the potteries was the fav for quite a while.

[onefortheroad]

The Shoulder of Mutton still sells Tetleys and it still has a very good reputation for it's beer.
But there are so many of Castlefords' pubs that have closed down; the Malt Shovel on Front St., Glasshoughton closes its' doors on Wednesday and the Glasshoughton Working Men's Club on Leeds Rd. is on its' financial knees.

Still, at least we've got a snowdome

David

[perth tiger]

Still, at least we've got a snowdome 

its not all bad then 

[perth tiger]

i found this on you tube
it shows quite a few pubs that have disappeared. if you wait till the end theres another pic of the woodman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wAQQkaSuvE

[shanew147]

thanks,

will have a look at that


Shane