It only takes a few hours if you do it my way; stick the dog's lead on and amble down Storrs Hill and over the fields to the Brewers, up Healey Rd to The Tap then across Green Park to the Vic.

I'm happy to be out of my 80's, speed-drinking pub-crawls to be honest - with the exception of the occasional foray into Shakey Wakey with the lads for a Friday night revival, I'd rather walk a few miles and get a couple of decent pints.

It probably means I'm approaching old-fartdom, but that's fine by me.

Not called the Wo Sang anymore I don't think, can't remember the new name but think its just about to move into what was part of the Royal, which has been disected into seperate shops by the looks.

I always thought Horbury was more of the place for the decent ale drinkers. The boozer in the middle of the town centre, accross from the Co-Op with the wooden floors that creaked all over them. I forgot its name, thought that was the main one.

Not any more!

You're talking about Henry Boons I think - didn't short-lived Trinity player Paul 'Curly' Brown used to have that?

I think he's at the Cherry now, don't quote me though, McD's used to have Woolpack for a time, Bulls players used to be there quite often. I went in once, staff told me to get out :/

Understandable.

Boons in Horbury is the one Dennis Beecfraft had as well. The place still does a decent pint. The re-born Cricketers on Cluntergate is well worth a visit for those who apprieciate top quality ale. Owned by the same people who have the real ale mecca that is the West Riding refreshment rooms at Dewsbury train station.

Ah - I never knew that; haven't been in the Cricketers for years - I'll have a wander down this weekend - cheers for that!

Think they are having a beer festival in a couple of weeks as well. Might make one in for that!

.... and very wise of them.

I was always welcome in the Horse and Jockey, I never did beat Kev at Pool though

Remember going to the Weavers a few times on a Friday night with my old man, a bit of pool and then a chat with Kev Harkin about his days at Wakefield. Nice guy to be honest, not sure if he is still there though.

The Weavers re-opened recently as a free house, after a long period of being closed; on balance, I preferred it closed.

I'm hearing "little monsters" is being earmarked for Witherspoons.

That should help to town centre over the edge.

Thats been rumoured for years to be honest.

I thought we already had a Wetherspoons on the mushroom?

How many unemployed people do we have in Ossett - surely not enough to support two such establishments?!

Former boyracer?

Former? No - I go up there every Friday night in my Ford Galaxy and do some doughnuts.

Must be alone then... thought they had upgraded to the Retail Parks these days ?

No idea - it was a lie; the only time I 'did a doughnut' was when I worked at Speedibake in the late 80's.

Yeah but they missed on on the Maypole building and Little monsters is empty.

Briers should be a baker...

......he really does love putting icing on a cake.

We've hit the 1,000 post mark for this thread, which always used to be the max. number of posts allowed (for some techy reason), so I'm locking this one now. A new chat thread will be available in a couple of minutes, so we can all enjoy Lupset's cats and Huddersfield's playoff dreams.

TTFN