A small Victorian back-street pub on the north side of the town.
The Fytton Arms
A typical post-war pub on the Fitton Hill estate on the south side of the town, now looking forlorn and roofless.
The Wakefield Arms
A cream-painted three-strey pub next to Wakefield Kirkgate, the less busy of the city’s two stations. It has been in a derelict and steadily deterioriating condition for many years.
The Knot
Built in 1911, a free-standing, white-painted pub on the main shopping street with some interesting architectural details. It has since been demolished but nothing so far put in its place.
The Kingsholme
A handsome mock-Tudor pub just outside the town’s inner ring road, still bearing Ansell’s livery. Originally called the Coach & Horses. Be careful not to jump the red light!
The Lord Cardigan
A functional modern pub standing high above a busy road junction on the western side of the city. The large unused grassed area must have increased the attraction of the site for redevelopment as the housing which it has since become.
The Victoria
Situated at the rear of a modern shopping precinct, you would hardly think this had ever been a pub, but it certainly was, replacing an imposing Victorian building of the same name in the 1960s. It its latter years it went through various incarnations as Boogie Piano Bar and Stage One Bar.
The Chellow
A distinctive 1930s Art Deco style pub in a suburban area to the west of the city, now converted to residential use.
The New Inn
An old but much extended pub on a main road and close to new housing estates on the north side of the town. It is to be demolished to allow for the development of yet more housing.
The Old Cottage Tavern
Originally the British Oak, this backstreet pub near the Town Hall was run for a period as the brewery tap for the Old Cottage Brewery.
The Fernlea
A large three-storey post-war estate pub in the Farnley district on the south-west side of the city (see where they got the name from?), that looks more like a parade of shops. Since demolished and the site redeveloped for housing.
The Swan
An old pub that later became a Brewer's Fayre and had a Premier Inn added on to the back. It was a familiar landmark on the busy A556 road that connected Manchester to the M6, but once that was bypassed the amount of passing trade will have dramatically declined.
(My own picture)
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