The New Inn, Bradford

Largish, long stonebrick building, knocked into one L shaped room. Dividers and residual walls split it into three distinct areas, seating at tables, pews and chairs at one end with album cover decor, booths at the other end; the main bar area and counter are in the middle with banquette seating and cast iron based tables. A bit over modernised for my tastes, the decor in places is more alehouse than roadhouse with pump clips on ceiling beams and modern enamel signs, banknotes of many lands adorn the bar back where the Cask Marque certificate resides safely out of reach. Six pulls of beers from Goose Eye (3), Bingley (2) and Ilkley’s boys beer Mary Jane, I had a Bingley which was the first out that day and was smelling iffy and tasting a bit of coconut- not off but not right. Some of the customers on the other hand were a bit off, others just salt of the earth types. The gents are hidden in plain sight by the front door, the ladies and disabled are at the right hand side of the counter down a short corridor.

Official site of The New Inn - www.thenewinnthornton.co.uk

Official site of The New Inn - www.thenewinnthornton.co.uk