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Jacksons Arms, Hartlepool
Hartlepool
TS24 7HH
Pub Type
Punch TavernsReviews (Current Rating Average: 4½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Gill Smith left this review about Jacksons Arms
I am sorry but one undrinkable beer in a cask marque pub didn't work for us today. Lovely old pub but one cask beer on and we had to leave it. Very poor
On 7th August 2019
- rating: 3
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custodian 42 left this review about Jacksons Arms
Bar to middle with a pool table to back right. Four hand pumps, two were on but nothing worth drinking.
On 13th August 2017
- rating: 3
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Will Larter left this review about Jacksons Arms
I called in here on the recommendations of some of my Luton Town drinking mates, on the basis of its inclusion in the Good Beer Guide. It was ok, but nothing special on the beer front. They had a hand-written pump clip for Monument Bitter, but the landlord was unable to say where it came from. To be fair he tried looking it up in the GBG - two possibilities, neither of which turned out to be the right one - I have since Googled it and it turns out to be from Tyne Bank brewery. This is a pleasant, unpretentious street corner local, handily placed if you've a few minutes to kill before catching a train out of Hartlepool (though not as handy as the Rat Race, obviously).
On 7th October 2015
- rating: 6
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Gill Smith left this review about Jacksons Arms
This is a super corner back street local pub that has friendly staff and customers. Deserves its place in the 2010 Good Beer Guide as the quality of the ale is superb. Clean and tidy with beers sourced from micros. There is a pool table and dart board. Dog friendly too. We enjoyed Mordue Workie Ticket and Wold Top Mars Magic.
The above was in August 2010, and we called in yesterday in our search for real ale in Hartlepool, knowing we would get some here at last. There were 2 beers on, Wychwood Hobgoblin and Mordue Workie Ticket, both in good condition. The lounge was full and there was a good atmosphere. Football was on the TV here, and music was playing in the bar area being accompanied by some of the regulars singing along. Lovely back street boozer for the locals.
On 5th October 2014
- rating: 8
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Pub SignMan left this review about Jacksons Arms
The Jacksons Arms is a pleasant, traditional back street boozer, close to the town’s train and bus stations. The Cleveland CAMRA website notes that a novel approach to selling the pub resulted in it being put up as a prize in a raffle, with tickets costing £100 each. It certainly wouldn’t be a bad prize to win, with the building retaining a traditional two room interior. To the left of the entrance is the lounge – a smart room with red banquettes around the perimeter, some floral carpeting and patterned wallpaper. The servery is in dark wood with a stained glass hood over it and the room is decorated with various items of interest including a beer bottle collection, displays of knots, brewery mirrors and a TV screen which was switched off on my Tuesday night visit. To the right of the main entrance is the public bar which also looked quite nicely appointed with less seating, some semi partitioning screens with stained glass insets and the obligatory pool table and dartboard.
The pub has been a Good Beer Guide regular in recent years, supposedly getting through over 100 different beers each year across its four hand pulls, mostly from microbreweries nationwide. It therefore came as something of a disappointment to find just two ales on the bar, both fairly mainstream offerings of Wychwood Hobgoblin (£3.00) and Shepherd Neame Spitfire. The Hobgoblin was okay and the barmaid was friendly enough, but sadly the pub was practically empty, with just two others in the lounge and a couple more throwing some arrows in the other room.
Clearly, a late Tuesday night visit on a freezing winter’s evening wasn’t the time to catch this place at its best. It’s the sort of pub I can imagine it’s nice to settle down in for an evening, but I’d hoped for a better ale choice to go with it. I’d give this place another try and hope for better luck on the beer front next time.
On 3rd February 2013
- rating: 6
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