Holmfirth pubs - Princess Royal (Rotcher Road) and Druid’s Hotel

[NNR]

Meltham! Yes, that's the other reference I found, too. That's the R+C where the Mason meetingsetc. Take place...

[NNR]

Notes on Wm Bray and R&C

1842 - R&C George Higgins
1847 - Rose & Crown (George Higgins') - WB is butcher (Cartworth)

1851: Hant Row, Cartworth, WB 29, butcher, with wife and son

1854 - R&C - Joseph Lodge. WB - butcher
1858: R&C Joseph Lodge. WB butcher

1861: Rose & Crown, Higgin Bridge, 39, butcher, Cinderhills with family and Ann Charlesworth, 15 year old house servant from Hepworth

1866 - R&C Martha Dearnley. WB - butcher

[josey]

Pubs in Holmfirth mentioned/pictured in archive photograph book [Peter & Iris Bullock 1995]:
The Friendship Inn    demolished] to widen Towngate
Jolly Hatters       demolished] ditto
The White Hart       now Brambles
The Crown       now The Postcard
The George Inn [Upperbridge]    now Cellar 88
Elephant & Castle [Upperbridge]
The Victoria Hotel   demolished in the 1960s [?corner of Station Road & Bridge Lane]
The Nook               aka Rose & Crown
The King’s Head Inn [Upperbridge]   demolished 1969 after runaway lorry damaged adjacent
                                                         buildings

[drodgers34]

Peasants and clothiers, by pupils of holmfirth sec school in the late sixties.

Lists all the above inns and notes most were closed when stricter laws came into force after the first world war

Reference to Princess Royal simply states Used to be Higgin Briff

Couldn google any reference to Higgin Briff but it threw up lots off repeated references to Higgin Brigg as a summer wine filming location

[josey]

For anyone interested in Holmfirth drinking dens the Holmfirth Civic Society have just launched a book called
Public Houses of Holmfirth - Past & Present

http://communitydirectory.kirklees.gov.uk/communityDirectory/organisationdetails.aspx?orgid=1000

[davepattern]

The abovementioned book is now available to download for free:
https://www.holmfirthhistory.org.uk/books/