The Old White Beare, Halifax - pub details
Address: Village Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 8QG [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 39216) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Brighouse (3 miles), Halifax (3.2 miles), Bradford Interchange (4.3 miles)
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> Current user rating: 6.3/10 (rated by 9 users)
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Pear Tree, Norwood Green (0.3 miles), Halfway House, Wyke (0.7 miles), Wyke Lion, Bradford (0.8 miles), Brown Cow Inn, Wyke (0.9 miles), Oddfellows Arms, Wyke (0.9 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Old White Beare, Halifax
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| Well, dear hearts, a Moment Of Truth - not a common thing in life - presented itself to us in this pub recently. Did you ever wonder, exactly, and I mean exactly, what the term "dog friendly" can mean? If so, then I'll detain - but I hope not belabour you - with an example. It seems that in this pub, some dog owners take it to mean that every single customer must be, or, importantly, if not then pretend to be, as dog-soft-in-the-head as they are, and they will encourage their animal to" investigate" each and every one in the room to ascertain whether they are indeed all complying with this imagined requirement. If you really don't like this, and should dare to express your feelings straightforwardly at this assault-by-animal-proxy, and at having your personal space invaded by the critter and - worse still - by its owner, then you can expect to be subjected to a hailstorm of foul-mouthed abuse, aggressively lurched towards and generally turned into a public Aunt Sally. In turn, if you should express any objection to your treatment in appropriate terms, then the persistently head-scratching "manageress" of blonde artificial extensions may well ask you to leave for "causing trouble for no reason". People may sometimes ask why so many pubs are closing down. I humbly proffer that the truth revealed here is a ten-times-greater reason for that sad fact than the smoking ban ever was or will be. Hulots_hat - 29 Nov 2023 09:24 |
| The Old White Bear is a decent pub by any standards these days, as we found to our pleasure on our most recent foray. However, it must be said that the bar and snug are both small. At busy times it can be a bit too intimate, with everyone rather in each other's faces. It is as well then, that the complementary pub just down the road, the Pear Tree, has changed hands and undergone a makeover. The locality can easily support two pubs, especially when they don't try to copy one another. The Pear Tree now offers a range of exceptionally well-kept ales, including standards such as Tetley's and Timothy Taylor's Landlord, but there were no less than six when we looked in, with Doombar, Castle Rock Harvest Pale, and Yorkshire Blonde amongst them. They don't as yet do food, apart from Sunday lunch, but that may change. It's a sister pub to the Bull's Head at Gomersal. The decor is now light, clear and airy, and the atmosphere is intended to be receptive to the genial and well-mannered. I wholeheartedly commend the management policy of protecting that last and most valuable of assets. There are no television screens to distract or annoy, and the music just is at sufficient volume to give privacy to conversation but no more. I recommend it highly, either as a change from the OWB or as a favourite in its own right. eddybeer - 12 Aug 2016 18:55 |
| Delighted to see that the good people of Calderdale returned not a single UKIP councillor in the recent elections. Well done to all the regulars at the OWB and the Pear Tree! Cheers! Buy your own pint ! ;-) eddybeer - 25 May 2014 19:39 |
| PS: although the beers are now generally well kept, they do seem to overuse the sparkler. Ales take a lonf time to clear and have too large a head. Some of the younger bar staff pull pints where even the foam does not reach the rim. This is a shame, and unnecessary. Still beer is quicker and less wasteful to pull than foam. It has more life on the tongue too. eddybeer - 14 Jan 2014 21:11 |
| We ventured over again recently, and it's worth saying there's another pub, The Pear Tree, about 800m down the road. This latter, apparently, usually has on Tetley's and another such as Landlord. It's cheaper than this, but it's a bit of a lived-in locals pub. That's a pity, because its location could make it easily rival this one, with some improvements. I suppose Tetley's, Punch or whoever don't want the outlay though. I thought a bus might make for a nice outing from Halifax, but there are hardly ever any I'm told. The only one I saw had "Local bus" displayed ("for Local People-nowhere you'd want to go", I suppose) but didn't say to which part of the locality it was going. Anyway, the sun was shining and there was the usual (for this part of the world) display of beetroot-red bald heads here, in the outside area, which meant the rather limited space inside was at least enough, and pleasantly relaxing. Some old boy drove by in a Rolls Royce, and for some reason about half those seated outside waved at him, some standing to do so. (It's a good job they don't live in Notting Hill, they'd be worn out). There were four real ales on here on this occasion, and the two I had were both in good condition. eddybeer - 20 Jun 2013 18:20 |
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