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If you love the British pub, you will like this blog. Here I will review the pubs I drop into in my wanderings around my home region - urban, rural, posh, homely, fun pubs, restaurant pubs, and local backstreet pubs. I hope to encourage people to appreciate them.
I will score each pub out of five points each (30 points maximum) on its ambience, decor, service, whether it serves real ales, state of the toilets (but I can't vouch for the state of the gents because I don't use them!) and what extras it has - games, beer garden, newspapers, serves food, karaoke, quizzes, live music.
If after reading one of my reviews you decide to check out a pub, I hope you enjoy the experience. But bear in mind that I have only visited some of them once, and pubs and pub managers change. If the review needs updating, please leave a comment.
Ups and downs? Well, people drink when they're down. And they drink to celebrate, when they're feeling 'up'. Besides that, this is hill country. It's full of ups and downs.
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Saturday, 6 April 2013

The White Hart, Todmorden


The White Hart, White Hart Fold, Todmorden OL14 7BD

A Wetherspoons pub, with everythng you would expect of a pub of the Wetherspoons brand. It is a 19th century building which looks like it was originally built to accommodate railway passengers. Like many Wetherspoons pubs, it has posters on the walls giving information about the locality's history, including the local railway line and famous Todmorden residents: Peter Lever, cricketer; Sir JOhn Douglas Cockroft, who split the atom; John Ramsbottom, industrialist. The white hart was Richard II's heraldic emblem, and is very old pub name.

decor - 5
dark wood theme, original features
Comfortable seating. It was refurbished by Wetherspoons in 2011

ambience - 4
relaxing

service - 5
friendly and attentive

real ales - 5
at least 5 real ales, (as expected in a Wetherspoons pub!)

features - 1
serves food until 10pm 

toilets - 5
pristine, fully stocked with handwash, loo rols, etc

Score 25 out of 30

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