Best away day in this division

[Master D]

Consult the Natural Order for the definitive list of who's who.

 

[shoddycollins]

Who's who then?

Well this isn't my opinion, but I remember when we were drawn to play Rochdale or Maidstone in last year's FA Cup, someone said the Maidstone fans thought their brief time in the league meant they were a massive club. I'd say the former group contains the likes of Hereford.

 

[GTFCfish]

Who's who then?

You need to ask ChrisFGR as he is the law on this.

 

[Pliny Harris]

I've walked/cycled loads round Sowerby/Hebden Bridge,Mythomroyd,Todmorden is that we're the clogg factory was?
So might be but muddled.
Last time I was there parked in Sowerby Bridge & walked back towards Halifax along the canal,with a river down below.Theres a pub where canal came to a dead end.
I might have seen a sign for Triangle & it's stuck in my mind as I thought it's a strange nameplace

Yeah the clog factory's Mytholmroyd as far as I'm aware! I think I had my 6th birthday party there or summat because we visited once and it had a tiny indoor play area. Time to go back I reckon.

We're a great area for having ordinary, everyman place names, with two exceptions: the sprawl villages of Triangle and Friendly. Not much worth seeing in either bar the names, unless you're keen on attractive cricket grounds (Triangle CC). No nonsense place names like Phylum St. Edwin or Meston-le-Peanuts to be seen over here, just proper ones like Stainland and Midgeley.

Honestly unsure which pub it is you're hinting at sadly, though when it comes down to it the Three Pigeons is easily one of the best pubs within a few minutes of a ground in the country, and for those willing to go a little further out, The Big 6 is also both brilliant and unique.

 

[Silver Stone]

Well this isn't my opinion, but I remember when we were drawn to play Rochdale or Maidstone in last year's FA Cup, someone said the Maidstone fans thought their brief time in the league meant they were a massive club. I'd say the former group contains the likes of Hereford.

literally no Stones fan has ever said that.

 

[Farleigh]

I would say Maidstone are well aware of their place in the non league world's pecking order. Those who do remember our brief dismal stay in the fourth division are gradually being replaced by a new generation who are creating a completely new identity for the club.

 

[shoddycollins]

Yeah the clog factory's Mytholmroyd as far as I'm aware! I think I had my 6th birthday party there or summat because we visited once and it had a tiny indoor play area. Time to go back I reckon.

We're a great area for having ordinary, everyman place names, with two exceptions: the sprawl villages of Triangle and Friendly. Not much worth seeing in either bar the names, unless you're keen on attractive cricket grounds (Triangle CC). No nonsense place names like Phylum St. Edwin or Meston-le-Peanuts to be seen over here, just proper ones like Stainland and Midgeley.

Honestly unsure which pub it is you're hinting at sadly, though when it comes down to it the Three Pigeons is easily one of the best pubs within a few minutes of a ground in the country, and for those willing to go a little further out, The Big 6 is also both brilliant and unique.

Personally my favourite and most stereotypically Yorkshire place names are Thorngumbald and Heckmondwike

 

[Monkey Tennis]

We're a great area for having ordinary, everyman place names, with two exceptions: the sprawl villages of Triangle and Friendly.

I used to live near here for a short while - a street named Football: https://sabotagetimes.com/sport/a-street-named-football

 

[Back in the DHSS]

Honestly unsure which pub it is you're hinting at sadly, though when it comes down to it the Three Pigeons is easily one of the best pubs within a few minutes of a ground in the country, and for those willing to go a little further out, The Big 6 is also both brilliant and unique.[/QUOTE]

I think the Three Pigeons is worth a visit on its own, without any football. Not as good as when it was a Websters house though. Probably in my all time top 3 pre\post match watering holes along with Wolverhampton's Great Western and Rochdale's Cemetry hotel.
Shears inn, Paris gates not as brilliant or unique as the Big 6, but always worth a visit when in Halifax.

 

[shoddycollins]

Honestly unsure which pub it is you're hinting at sadly, though when it comes down to it the Three Pigeons is easily one of the best pubs within a few minutes of a ground in the country, and for those willing to go a little further out, The Big 6 is also both brilliant and unique.

I think the Three Pigeons is worth a visit on its own, without any football. Not as good as when it was a Websters house though. Probably in my all time top 3 pre\post match watering holes along with Wolverhampton's Great Western and Rochdale's Cemetry hotel.
Shears inn, Paris gates not as brilliant or unique as the Big 6, but always worth a visit when in Halifax.[/QUOTE]

The Great Western in Wolverhampton has to be one of the best pubs full-stop.

 

[B2TF]

The Shears Inn is unique in its own way (as you'd expect ). Just a quarter of a mile from The Shay and often enjoyed by small groups of away fans (or big groups if you're Bristol Rovers) it claims to be Halifax's oldest hostelry, dating from the 1600s. It is situated by the river in a valley bottom, on a historic, medaeval pack horse route from Lancashite (what a serendipitious typo , I think I'll leave it there) to Leeds- you can still imagine a train of laden mules passing through there. Talking about place names, all my life I've seen buses in the station destined for "Portsmouth", which is presumably somewhere local and I still have no idea where that is.

 

[Pliny Harris]

The Shears Inn is unique in its own way (as you'd expect ). Just a quarter of a mile from The Shay and often enjoyed by small groups of away fans (or big groups if you're Bristol Rovers) it claims to be Halifax's oldest hostelry, dating from the 1600s. It is situated by the river in a valley bottom, on a historic, medaeval pack horse route from Lancashite (what a serendipitious typo , I think I'll leave it there) to Leeds- you can still imagine a train of laden mules passing through there. Talking about place names, all my life I've seen buses in the station destined for "Portsmouth", which is presumably somewhere local and I still have no idea where that is.

Oh yeah, the final settlement in Yorkshire is called Portsmouth, situated north-west of Todmorden before the valley dips down again into Lancashire. So-called I believe because a local who joined the navy was so enchanted by the Hampshire city that when he'd finished there, he named the area after it. Being at the top of the Pennine watershed and some 35 miles from the sea as the crow flies, it's about as far from being the mouth of a port as it's possible to be.

 

[EnglishRed]

Everything I know about Halifax I learnt from the Steve Bruce novel "Sweeper":

Halifax, like all places in this area, is set among hills. There is moorland all around. Not as high and barren as Pennines, but windy nonetheless. Yet the valleys, with rivers and streams, are sheltered and pleasant. Until twenty or thirty years ago, this was an area that thrived on wool manufacture.

 

[rudebwoyben]

Everything I know about Halifax I learnt from the Steve Bruce novel "Sweeper":

Halifax, like all places in this area, is set among hills. There is moorland all around. Not as high and barren as Pennines, but windy nonetheless. Yet the valleys, with rivers and streams, are sheltered and pleasant. Until twenty or thirty years ago, this was an area that thrived on wool manufacture.

Bruce's books are masterpieces of literature!

 

[Pliny Harris]

Everything I know about Halifax I learnt from the Steve Bruce novel "Sweeper":

Halifax, like all places in this area, is set among hills. There is moorland all around. Not as high and barren as Pennines, but windy nonetheless. Yet the valleys, with rivers and streams, are sheltered and pleasant. Until twenty or thirty years ago, this was an area that thrived on wool manufacture.

Yeah that commentary is a classic of the English language. Halifax is actually part of the Pennines, it just lies low cos the range isn't particularly wide at that point. He has a... fairly exotic take. Even when Halifax's Piece Hall (Best away day posts passim) as a place of wool commerce was approaching obsolescence by the start of the 19th century...

There's another classic bit in one of his books where a gang leader's holding a gun to his head and in his "final" moments he decides to go on a rambling internal monologue about how irrigating and building reservoirs in the Pennine moorlands has helped make the land productive

 

[B2TF]

Everything I know about Halifax I learnt from the Steve Bruce novel "Sweeper":

Halifax, like all places in this area, is set among hills. There is moorland all around. Not as high and barren as Pennines, but windy nonetheless. Yet the valleys, with rivers and streams, are sheltered and pleasant. Until twenty or thirty years ago, this was an area that thrived on wool manufacture.

Interestingly, my cousin married a Welshman in the early 1970s- he loved Halifax because he said it so reminded him of the "Valleys": the hills, the sheep, the blackened buildings, but mostly the privations (at the time the local textile industries were collapsing like a house of cards) and the "community" among the people. He loves it still.

 

[SomeMightShay]

Honestly unsure which pub it is you're hinting at sadly, though when it comes down to it the Three Pigeons is easily one of the best pubs within a few minutes of a ground in the country, and for those willing to go a little further out, The Big 6 is also both brilliant and unique.

I think the Three Pigeons is worth a visit on its own, without any football. Not as good as when it was a Websters house though. Probably in my all time top 3 pre\post match watering holes along with Wolverhampton's Great Western and Rochdale's Cemetry hotel.
Shears inn, Paris gates not as brilliant or unique as the Big 6, but always worth a visit when in Halifax.[/QUOTE]
Shears serves Tim Taylor's Boltmaker and serves roast beef sandwiches served with a side of roast potatoes and gravy. On that basis alone i'd never want to drink anywhere else pre-match.

 

[SomeMightShay]

The Train Station pub at Harrogate is one of the best on the non-league route. And given its a bit of a slog to the stadium it was almost tempting to stay there and get text updates last time out.

 

[PaulHaddock]

Never been in the Three Pigeons but I've tried the Shears twice and both times were excellent. We were in quite rush too so that was very helpful. Decent tapas.

 

[rocknrollnobody]

The Train Station pub at Harrogate is one of the best on the non-league route. And given its a bit of a slog to the stadium it was almost tempting to stay there and get text updates last time out.

The Harrogate Tap
It's a decent place, but as you say, not really close to the Wetherby Rd ground.

 

[B2TF]

You know you've been in non league way too long when a pub in fucking Harrogate is one of your favourite pre-match venues.

 

[B2TF]

Oh, and just breaking, grim old Halifax one of UKs top 10 destinations for spontaneous get-aways: http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/new...-s-top-spontaneous-getaway-hotspots-1-8761085

How inconvenient for our dark satanic mills/post industrial reputation.

 

[Pablosammy]

Oh, and just breaking, grim old Halifax one of UKs top 10 destinations for spontaneous get-aways: http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/new...-s-top-spontaneous-getaway-hotspots-1-8761085

How inconvenient for our dark satanic mills/post industrial reputation.

Is this that 'disaster tourism' I recently read about?

 

[EnglishRed]

Bruce's books are masterpieces of literature!

One day his genius as an author will be recognised, as will his good O level in English.