The Fighting Cock, Listerhills, Bradford

A well worn looking boozer with a robust and earthy interior. There are a whopping thirteen handpumps in all, eight in operation for beer and one for Cider, Old Rosie, the beers were Landlord and Boltmaker from Timothy Taylor, Oakham JHB,Vocation Bread & Butter and Naughty & Nice, Theakston Old Peculiar, Salopian Kashmir and Pictish Mosaic. Despite the number of beers on and only three other punters in early Saturday lunchtime, the Kashmir and Mosaic were in good form. A chatty knowledgeable guy behind the bar helped make this old school pub a winner for me despite the arduous walk all the way from The Corn Dolly, well worth it.

It's quite a long walk through an old industrialised area to get here. Once you've negotiated the numerous car washes (are Bradford's cars really that dirty) and the multiple scrap yards (probably caused by over cleaning), you arrive at this gem of a pub. This has to be a destination pub, there's nothing else to come out here for. A real survivor. The pub is as described by OB below. 12 handpumps on the bar and all 12 were on. Both the beers I tried were in excellent condition and served to me by a friendly barman. It was fairly quiet on my Friday afternoon visit but I'm guessing it gets busier later on. I'll definitely be making my way out here again.

A super, unspoiled boozer in a run down area a bit out of the city centre but well worth the walk and it's not that far from the New Beehive. A long thin bar is split into three rooms by partial dividing walls. Entering from the diagonally placed corner door you come into a basically furnished sitting room with an unusual double sided fireplace. The walls here have a selection of the many CAMRA awards won over the years and over the fireplace a board listing the beers available. The middle section of the pub is formed from a square alcove decorated with old photos of Bradford, pictures of guide dogs the pub has funded and some drawings of cocks, other pubs with cock in the name that is. The third section is similar in style being plain with wooden benches built in and round tables on a wooden board floor. The plain counter with its footrest shelf serves all three areas and is home to twelve pulls plus one for cider, six regular beers, three from Taylors, Copper Dragon Golden Pippin and Greene King Abbot, the other six are changing guests from northern micros in the main. There are three ciders and three "Speciality" lagers listed, there are plenty of bottles too including emptys on display all round the plate rack in each room. Remarkably, and deservedly, busy early doors on a Saturday morning I was told it was quiet because City weren't at home otherwise it would have been rammed.