Angel Hotel and Barn

The Angel

Address	9 Northgate
Postcode	BD17 6LX
Building Date	pre 1779
Early Licence	1779
Licencee	Stephen Eric Winrow
Brewery	Greene King
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The Angel

This is a pub at 9 Northgate, Baildon and faces close onto Towngate.

Though it might be thought that The Angel is the oldest pub in Baildon there is no reference to it earlier than 1779 ^{Page 39}

Manor Courts were held at The Angel Hotel in 1779, 1806, 1807, 1809, 1811, 1813, 1854 and 1865.^{Page 56}

1865 is the latest date listed for the Manor Courts. This explains why the Royal Coat of Arms are still in The Angel and also why, at the time of the Greene King refit, a change of name to The Courtyard was being considered.

Royal Coat of Arms

The 1929 Baildon Hospital & Charities Week and 1930 Baildon Hospital & Charities Week handbooks have an advert for The Angel. Proprietor Will Needham, (The Old Manningham Football 3/4 back) - Tetley's ales served here - Headquarters: Baildon Rugby Football Club & Baildon Musical Union. Although Wm Whitaker & Co Ltd. owned The Angel they had stopped brewing in 1928 but continued to operate as bottlers, wine and spirit merchants thus allowing The Angel to already promote Tetley's Ales. It was not until 1959 that Tetleys acquired Wm Whitaker & Co Ltd. along with 119 houses of which the Angel Hotel was one.

Later The Angel was a John Barras pub - part of Spirit Pub Company (Punch).

In the early 1980s, after having been formed following meetings in Baildon Community Link, the Baildon Runners met on Thursdays in The Angel. After a major re-fit of The Angel in 1987 the Runners started to meet at the Malt Shovel. The facilities did not really suit a running club so in 1989 they agreed with Baildon Rugby Union Football Club that they could use the clubhouse; this enabled runners to have showers and drinks in the bar on Thursdays.

See the 2013 T&A article about the refit of the Malt Shovel and The Angel on the Malt Shovel page. I assume the delay in the refit of the Angel was caused by the acquisition of the Spirit Pub Company.

In 2015 Spirit was acquired by Greene King.

May 2018 - The Angel was refitted as a Greene King pub. At the time there was a suggestion from Greene King that the name could be changed to The Courthouse. This is referring back to the fact that Manor Courts were held in The Angel Hotel. There were a few objections to this suggestion from locals and it was decided to stay with The Angel.

Freemasons at the Angel Inn

1856 - 20 February. The Airedale Lodge of The Freemasons started holding their meetings at The Angel. (Prior to that they had been held in the Malt Shovel).

1866 - 31 January. The Airedale Lodge agreed to give the landlord of the Angel Inn at Baildon (then Mr. Joseph Field) two shillings and sixpence per lodge night "as a small remuneration for the use of the lodge-room, fire, and light, as under the present circumstances he must be a loser through the bad attendance of members and other causes."

1868 - 30 December. The Airedale Lodge held their last meeting at the Angel Inn before transferring to the new lodge rooms at Westgate, Shipley.

1875-1876. The newly formed Baildon Lodge held their first meetings at The Angel before moving across the road to 12 Northgate.

Licencees

Please read the page Licencees, sources for information about where a lot of the licencee names and owner names have come from. The 1822 Baines Directory has William Wainman as victualler of The Angel.

The 1841 Baildon Census lists Wainman Holmes at The Angel. Wainman also gets a mention in the Allotment of Pews, 1848.

1857 - Wainman Holmes listed Angel & farmer

1870 - White's Directory 1870 lists William Chamberlain at The Angel.

The 1893 Kelly Directory has Frederick Waller, Angel P.H.

The Licence Register shows The Angel to be a Wm Whitaker pub for many years from 1898. It was advertised for sale in 1897 with brewhouse, in the occupation of Mr Martin and acquired by William Whitaker & Co. Ltd the following year.

1872 to 1955

Summary of Register of Alehouse Licences granted in Otley for Angel Inn.
1872-1955.

Licencee	Date	Owner
Joseph Field	1872 Aug 30	William Wainman Holmes, Malmsbury, Bristol
John Walker	1873 Nov 7
Hannah Elizabeth Walker	1880 Feb 27
William Boyes	1880 Nov 5
	1881	Wm(?) Wainman Holmes, Baildon
Walter Chamberlain	1882 Aug 11	Thomas Wainman Holmes, Baildon
James Scott	1883 May 18
Frederick Waller	1889 Nov 8
Emma Waller	1893 July 7
Frederick Henman Martin	1893 Aug 18
	1898	Wm Whitaker & Co Ltd., Bradford.
John Harry Hanson Boyes	1900 Jul 6
Alfred Berry	1903 Jun 19
Walter Boothroyd	1905 Dec 8
Edwin Pattinson	1906 Dec 7
Arthur Smith	1913 Jan 31
Francis James Robinson	1915 July 9
Daniel Clark	1915 Dec 17
William Carter Needham	1927 Aug 12
William Thomas Lee	1941 Oct 31
Herbert George Farrar	1943 Sep 17
Albert Edward Partridge	1951 Jan 5
Transferred to Bingley Petty Sessional Division 31 Dec 1955

1955 onwards

Licencee and owner/brand summary from various sources

Licencee	Date	Owner
	1959	Tetleys acquire Wm Whitaker & Co Ltd.
		John Barras brand (part of Spirit)
	2015	John Barras brand (Spirit acquired by Greene King)
Stephen Eric Winrow	2018	Greene King brand. Refit.

Mr Fickling (Dougie) of Leeds became the landlord of the Angel Inn during the 1970s. He had been a policeman earlier in life and he was the Police Constable who arrested Zsiga Pankotai. Hungarian born Zsiga Pankotai was hanged, aged 31, on 29th June 1961 by Harry Allen at Armley jail. Pankotai had stabbed to death a wealthy market stall holder called Jack Eli Myers (Jack Marsh) while trying to rob him in his home on Chelwood Avenue, off Street Lane in Roundhay. Eli returned home unexpectedly during the burglary and the pair fought before Pantokia stabbed him to death.

Census Data

1841 Census Data, Angel Inn, Northgate

Name	Age Male	Age Female	Birthplace	Occupation
Wainman Holmes	35		Yorkshire	Innkeeper
Ann Holmes		30	Yorkshire
Wainman Holmes Jr.	15		Yorkshire	Engineer Apprentice
Louisa Holmes		9	Yorkshire
Sarah Holmes		4	Yorkshire
Sarah Ives		20	Yorkshire	F.S.

1851 Census, Angel Inn, Northgate. No. 18. Page 5.

Name	Relationship	Condition	Age Male	Age Female	Occupation	Born
Wainman Holmes	Head	Mar	45		Inn Keeper & Registrar	Yorkshire, Baildon
Ann Holmes	Wife	Mar		43		Yorkshire, Baildon
John Walker	Servant	Un	30		Hostler	Yorkshire, Baildon
Bridget Dockerty	Servant	Un		24	House Servant	Ireland

1861 Census, Angel Inn, Northgate. No. 132. Page 47.

Name	Relationship	Condition	Age Male	Age Female	Occupation	Born
Louisa Walker	Head	Mar		29	Manager of Angel Inn	Baildon, Yorkshire
Thomas Walker	Son		6		Scholar	London, Middlesex
Hannah Walker	Servant	Un		15	House Servant	Baildon, Yorkshire
Amelia Dobston	Servant	Un		15	House Servant	Baildon, Yorkshire
John Walker	Servant	Un	40		Hostler & Brewer	Baildon, Yorkshire

1911 Census Data for Angel Hotel, Northgate

Name	Relationship	Age	Gender	Birthplace	Status	Occupation
Edwin Pattison	Head	48	Male	Bradford, Yorkshire	Married	Publican
Agnes Pattison	Wife	45	Female	Bradford, Yorkshire	Married	Assisting in Business
Maud Pattison	Daughter	20	Female	Queensbury, Yorkshire	Single	Assisting in Business
Geo Henry Pattison	Son	17	Male	Bingley, Yorkshire	Single	Wool Merchants Office
Harold Pattison	Son	13	Male	Bingley, Yorkshire		School
Dorothy Pattison	Daughter	7	Female	Bingley, Yorkshire		School
Harriet Orchard	Servant	59	Female	Leeds, Yorkshire	Widow	Cook (Hotel)
Nellie Phelan	Servant	25	Female	Carlisle	Single	House Maid (Hotel)
Ernest Warrington	Servant	19	Male	Bradford, Yorkshire	Single	Waiter (Hotel)

Barn at the rear of the Angel

The barn at the rear of the Angel is a listed building dating back to early to mid 17th century.

Listed Building description. Grade II

Barn. Early-mid C17. Coursed rubble, roughly dressed quoins, stone slate roof. 4-bay barn. Central cart-entry has composite jambs the lintel raised. Mistal doorway to right has composite jambs and large quoined lintel. Interior: good king-post roof with mostly original purlins and rafters.

Angel Yard

J Whitaker, Plumber & Glazier etc. was advertising as working from Angel Yard, Baildon in 1936.

Photos

Many photos of the centre of Baildon feature The Angel. Some of these photos show that part of the building to the right of The Angel was the Angel Hotel petrol station. Prior to that the signs look as though they say "Angel Hotel Stables". It is more likely that the stables were round the back where the barn is. In The Story of Baildon John La Page says The present petrol station at the Hotel was originally the brewhouse ^{Page 39}

Several of the earlier photos, show The Angel with no bay windows and much smaller accommodation to the rear. Some other photos show The Angel with bay windows and rebuilt accommodation but no Stocks in Towngate. The Stocks were taken away in 1862 when the Potted Meat Stick was built and brought back in 1904. It is therefore reasonable to think that the bay windows and accommodation were built in the 1880s or '90s.including the 1943 photo, show that the Angel had etched glass in the windows displaying Angel Hotel & Bar Parlour. The later photos show that the glass is no longer etched and it looks as though the window frames have been replaced.

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  1862, no bay windows

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  1880s-'90s (?) no bay windows

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  Royal Field Artillery

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  1943 Fund raising

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  "Angel Hotel ????? Stables" is legible on the sign.

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  Angel sign 2008

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  Angel sign 2012

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  2013

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  Angel Sign. March 2018

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  Angel Sign. September 2018

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  The Listed barn behind the pub

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