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The Bradley Arms, an inn that goes back 200 years. Our first landlady was Sarah Frobisher. We are a proud hub of our community.
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We serve quality cask beers and home made food. We have a garden, a quiz night, acoustic music and there's a grand open fire.

01/11/2026

Good morning. Our friend Bev Golding carves us a pumpkin every year. This year’s theme was our pub coat of arms and our CAMRA awards. Good ‘un eh?

31/10/2026

Good Morning. If you're coming up to The Brads today, you might like to try this. It's the multi award winning Old Moor Porter from Barnsley. It's a rich mahogany coloured ale, tasting of roasted malt and perhaps a hint of liquorice, with a beautiful smooth velvety mouth feel. As the weather turns its the perfect b**r for autumn days.

30/10/2026

Good evening. Our latest line up…..two fine pales and an extremely moreish Porter.

29/10/2026

Good Morning. Yet another packed house for the Wednesday evening quiz here at The Bradley Arms. It's getting to be a real scrap for the weekly crown just lately. Last night no fewer then eight teams scored the same number of points, but just edging it on the night were The Spectacle Girls who scored 23 on what was considered a tough quiz. A shout out too, to The Number Fours who were handicapped by a four point deduction for winning the quiz twice in a row and nearly overcame it to be the first team ever to win it three times in a row. Great showing as well from Not So Fantastic Four and Oldies and Goldies. Please book your table each week, even if you are a regular, this quiz now as a waiting list to join.

26/10/2026

History Monday. From Pennsylvania to Featherstone. The remarkable story of Thomas Sides

Pub Landlord, Brewery Chairman and Violinist.

Thomas Sides was a massive self publicist, an eccentric politician and highly successful business man. He owned the Purston Hall estate for a time and it was he who sold that estate to Featherstone Town Council when they wanted to lay out a public park. Between 1902 and 1916 he was the landlord of the Featherstone Hotel. While there he obtained a cinematograph licence and bought equipment to both make and project film. In this way he was able to record and show local Rugby matches on blank walls in the pub. Sides was thus Sky Television a century before its time. He organised walking races, fancy dress competitions, brass band contest, dog shows and athletics events on a track he had laid out on land near the pub. He was jealous of his rival George Johnson who had formed Featherstone Rovers and based them at The Railway Hotel, so in 1910 he formed his own team 'Featherstone Northern Union' and paid good money to attract the best local players. This team merged with the Rovers two years later.

Tommy Sides inevitably entered the murky world of local politics and was immediately accused of trying to bribe local voters by tossing coins to local children as voting day approached. When the Reverend Stebbings announced that Sides would in future be responsible local church finances, the decision was criticised by the preacher at St Peter's Mission. Sides retaliated by accusing the preacher, Reverend Jackson of being a socialist and no more than the Archbishop of York's bobby.

Thomas Jeffries Sides was born in Pennsylvania, USA in 1874 of English parents who had emigrated. He came to live in Henry Street, Featherstone as a teenager. He first worked on the screens at Featherstone Main. The 1901 census describes him as 'Colliery Surface Contractor.'
He became a local councillor, chairman of the licensed victuallers', the local burial board and even head of recruitment of local volunteers during the first war, though he was too old to enlist himself. He went on to be Mayor of Pontefract and Chairman of the famous Carter's brewery, where he was paid a huge annual salary and rode around in a company car. He was Chairman of Pontefract races, Chairman of the Queens Theatre company in Castleford and in is spare time played the violin. In later life he moved to house called Fernhill in Nevison, which was later to become the Prince of Wales Working Men's Club. Sides died in September 1937, the bells of All Saints Church in Featherstone, tolled solemnly and flags were flown at half mast on all public buildings. The cemetery at North Featherstone was filled with mourners and onlookers. His elaborate gravestone is still there.

25/10/2026

Good morning. A warm welcome awaits you at The Brads. And we’ve got some new b**rs on.

23/10/2026

Good morning. From a galaxy not too far away. Scarborough to be precise! Comes this lovely b**r. We’ve only got one barrel so look sharp if you want to try it.

22/10/2026

Good Morning. Another huge full house here at The Bradley Arms for the quiz last night. with seventeen teams taking part. And we had a rare result. Due to our handicap system, whereby the winning team from the previous week is deducted two points the following week, it's difficult to win two weeks in a row. It's happened just once when Geoff's Marauders did it a couple of years ago, last night it happed for just the second time. It was a close one with The Number Fours scoring 22 after their deduction to tie with The No Hopers. A tie break ensued...'What year was the actor David Niven born?' The Number Fours guessed nearest and were crowned champs for the second week in a row. They now move into joint second place in this years league table and overtake The Tap Room Flat Cappers to go into third in the all time table. Shout out to The Tap Room Fillies. Oldies and Goldies and The Not So Fantastic Four who were close last night.

19/10/2026

History Monday. The remarkable story of Featherstone’s first woman driver.

Gertrude Poppleton was the first woman in Featherstone to drive a goods vehicle and possibly a motor car of any kind. During the first world war her brothers went off to fight and she and her sisters were left to run the family grocer’s business. Gertrude obtained a driving licence for the shop delivery van and in 1916 became Featherstone’s first young woman driver. It is a remarkable story on its own, but Gertrude and her family had a much bigger story to tell, one of heart-rending sadness that starts on the morning of December 12 1866, thirty years before she was born.

On that day the sirens sounded at the Oaks Colliery near Barnsley. A huge explosion of coal dust and firedamp ripped through the pit and shook the earth for more than three miles around like an earthquake. One of the cages was blown up into the headgear. By the end of the following day and after further explosions 383 men, boys and rescuers had been killed. It was the worst colliery disaster recorded in England. One family, The Poppleton’s of Hoyle Mill and Monk Bretton suffered unimaginable loss. Henry Poppleton aged 57 who was labouring underground and all four of his sons who worked alongside him were killed. They were Joseph, Henry, Alfred and the youngest brother George who was just 11 years old and working with a pony. The eldest Joseph was married to Sarah Anne; she had three young children. After the disaster she was kept out of the workhouse by a small stipend given to grieving widows and their children. She moved her young family to Featherstone where she remarried. Her youngest son Joseph named after his dad became a famous man in our town. He founded a grocery business and Poppleton’s shop which stood on the corner of Henrietta Street and Wakefield Road opposite The Jubilee pub became a renowned store where you could buy most things from a pork pie to a roll of lino. Joe Poppleton was also a property owner, a councillor and a JP; He died in 1927 after catching a chill while watching Featherstone Rovers on a bitterly cold day at Belle Vue Wakefield. He is buried in Featherstone cemetery. Joe had five sons and four daughters.

During the first World War, three of the Poppleton sons went off to fight. It was then that three of the daughters Alma, Francis and Gertrude took on the running of the family business. Sadly, two of the sons Frank and Burton never made it home, they were killed in 1918 in the last months of the war. Gertrude lived a long life right up to the 1980’s.

18/10/2026

Good morning. And a beautiful autumnal morning it is. There’s always a warm welcome for walkers here at The Bradley Arms. If you’re using one of the lovely public footpaths that lead almost to our front door you’re especially welcome, but please be aware it’s getting toward muddy boots and paws season. Please give paws a wipe and if your boots are caked leave them in the boot racks we provide by the front and back door. The fires will be lit soon, but you’ll have to fetch your own slippers.

Address

96 Willow Lane North Featherstone
Pontefract
WF71BG

Opening Hours

Monday	3pm - 12am
Tuesday	3pm - 12am
Wednesday	3pm - 12am
Thursday	3pm - 12am
Friday	2pm - 12am
Saturday	12pm - 12am
Sunday	12pm - 12am

Telephone

+441977700800

Website

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