23rd January 2020
Only a week behind with the blog after yesterday’s 3-in-1 special, and I haven’t had a pub visit since Saturday. So catching up is possible. But unlikely.
Thursday was my day to drive Duncan round the new delights of West Yorkshire. I’m sure there is/was a pub called the New Delight. Pubmeister will know.
Having travelled from the wastelands of Paisley and Fenland Cambridgeshire, it was appropriate we started in the heart of Bronte Country, bewixt Haworth and Keighley.
Transport hasn’t changed much since Wuthering Heights was penned down the road in Keighley’s Wetherspoons.
Someone, possibly connected with the travellers’ site in the next village, has left a similar car filled with household rubbish in the little lane used by our estate to get to the Indian Restaurant on the A10. There is cheese on the dashboard. I expect great things from that car.
Oakworth Social Club boasts 1,000 members, conceivably more than the population of a village virtually contiguous with the better known Bogthorn and Pickles Hill.
It’s an attractive building, with the usual hard-to-find entrance.
Pub tickers have an uneasy relationship with clubs. Will the door open ? Do I need to show a card or get signed in ? Will someone say “We TOLD the CAMRAs we don’t want to be in the Guide” ?
With no checks (phew, Duncan is using a Scottish CAMRA card which attracts suspicion) and a friendly reception, this was straightforward and uneventful, till I got to the bar.
Goose Eye from down the lane, Golden best from down the road.
This is just about the nearest Tim Taylor outlet in the Guide this year, with nowt in Keighley itself.
“£3.30 please” Not bad for two halves.
“You’ve given me too much. It’s £2.30”
TWO POUNDS THIRTY ! For a quality controlled Tim Taylors beer !
So what’s a pint worth in the Worth Valley ?
And how come Spoons get singled out for offering good value beer, eh ?
retiredmartin 
God’s own county.
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Well, next door to it, anyway.
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It has a short boundary with it at the upper end of Longdendale 😺
“When Liberals used to be liberal” 👍
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Will Longmate is a West kent CAMRA member – just saying, as I don’t know him that well.
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I did know. And I’m supporting Will in his stance against the anti Spoons front.
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Judas
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is “anti Spoons front” the new term for alleged the “Wetherspoon haters” who do no more than describe Tim’s venues as they find them ?
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It’s my term for the people who imply a business model that provides cheap beer and food is to be denigrated.
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I have just had a few pleasant moments, reminiscing memories of times in various Yorkshire parts. I look forward to further posts. Thanks
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This seems to be as close as you can get to a New Delight pub:
https://whatpub.com/pubs/HAL/1178/new-delight-inn-colden
You’ll love the one star review on Yelp
https://www.yelp.com/biz/new-delight-inn-hebden-bridge
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That’s the one!
Thanks Paul. Def in Beer Guide once 😱
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Great review too 👍
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The white VW Golf.
Where is that parked I know somebody who owned it back in the 90’s.
I googled the registration and your pic came up
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Oakworth, West Yorkshire. But that was nearly 5 years ago now !
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Ah ok, I was hoping I could have google street viewed it for a better look.
Thanks anyway
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