The Pride of Shipley, Shipley

I'm not a great fan of Wetherspoons and only came in here because I had done all the open pubs in Shipley that I wanted to do and had half an hour to kill before my train. This unusually shaped building has been adapted well, despite the toilets being on a different floor, and as has been commented below is smaller and more publike than a lot of 'Spoons. I quite liked it here - to be honest, I would be well-disposed towards any pub, 'Spoons or not, that could serve me a half of excellent Elland 1872 Porter for just £1.05. Yummy! Date of visit: 20th October 2017

An elegant curved glass frontage ,there are two entrances from the street and you step up into a single room with a decent sized bar to the rear.For a 'spoons its not vast which helps give it some pub atmosphere but the interior has been well worn and it looks a little tired.There are two ranks of five handpumps witht on my trip thankfully only two regular ales in Abbott and Ruddles Best.Guests included Wychwood Hobgoblin,Goose Eye Chinook,Sambrooks Red Ale and Elland 1872 Porter among other which I thought was a decent range ,making this a place worth including on any crawl around Shipley.

This Spoons was a former Co op supermarket back in the its day. You can enter the pub up a staircase along the side or via the main entrance near the market. The bar area was in the middle of the pub, situated over on the right. The bar counter was black granite and the bar front was metallic with small timber panelled sections running the bar length. The service here was excellent and my pint of Goose Eye Chinook at £2 a pint was very refreshing.

The Sir Norman Rae is a Wetherspoons that is situated in the middle of Shipley. I quite liked the look of this pub from the outside. Once inside there is a long curved room with the bar on the right side,the room is carpeted,the seating tall ones near the bar and normal tables and chairs elsewhere,there is also bench seating facing the bar. There was a very good choice of real ales on the bar,i had a drink of Acorn Barnsley bitter which went down very well,the other beers noted were Daleside Legover,Ossett Nervous Turkey,Goose Eye Chinook,Elland 1872 Porter,Hobgoblin and Spoons regulars Ruddles best,Doom Bar and GK Abbot. I quite liked this Spoons. Pub visited 28/11/2015