Abandoned The Wharf Pub Huddersfield Abandoned Places

IN THIS VIDEO WE TAKE YOU ON A EXPLORE THE ABANDONED THE WHARF PUB IN HUDDERSFIELD.

HISTORY

The Wharf Pub closed in 2011 it was a popular venue in the late 1970s with Spike, Alternative DJ, playing the music.

This was where the then unknown Joy Division called for a drink before their only Huddersfield gig at The Coach House.

But this is just a small part of the pub's 200 years of history that started when Aspley Basin was an axis of transport in the heyday of barge transport when canals were the motorways of the nation.

Huddersfield Broad Canal opened in 1776 and linked the Calder and Hebble canal at Cooper Bridge to the town at Aspley.

Huddersfield Narrow Canal opened in 1811, going from Aspley to climb through 74 locks along the Colne Valley, through Standedge Tunnel, to link with the Ashton Canal.

Aspley was a throbbing vital place of commerce and The Wharf Inn was at its heart.

It's listed in Baines Directory of 1822 with M Lockwood as licensee, although it's reasonable to assume it had been there since the docks became established.

The book 'Discovering Old Huddersfield' by Gordon and Enid Minter records a vivid picture of what the period was like: "With its wharves, docks, warehouses, cranes and weighing machines, the Basin was for many years a scene of bustling activity where horse-drawn barges were loaded and unloaded.

"Coal, lime, stone, timber, slates, corn, machinery and textiles, all these and more were carried along the canal and although transport was slow by modern standards it was much easier and cheaper at one shilling and sixpence (71/2p) a ton, than carrying goods over the difficult roads of those times.

"The importance of the Basin was increased when, in 1811, the Huddersfield Narrow Canal was finally opened through the Pennines to link up with the western waterways and ports, thus putting Hudders-field at the centre of across country trade artery. Activity at Aspley Basin continued for some 150 years."

Reader and pub historian Raphael Morris has kindly provided this evocative photograph of the pub in the early part of the last century, after the heyday of the docks, and when the junction of Wakefield Road and Firth Street was much quieter, with a corner shop opposite.

The pub later underwent structural changes to give it a bolder corner frontage and it is hoped to incorporate this into the new five-storey development which will house student flats.

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