Punch Bowl - Exley Bank/ Huddersfield Road, Salterhebble.
Earliest recording in 1829, closed several years ago and then demolished in 2022.
The earliest recorded landlord was Thomas Earnshaw in 1829.
John Aspinall, who was the registered landlord from 1841 to 1851, apparently arrived, with his family, in Sydney, Australia aboard the Mary Ann in 1857, but on arrival the parents of both John and Sarah Aspinall were shown as dead.
On 21st January, 1863, Robert Mitchell was being disorderly at the pub, and Sarah Wilkinson, the landlord's wife, asked him to leave. He refused and struck Sarah on the chest and head. She became sick and ill. She was found dead in bed the next morning. Robert Mitchell was charged with manslaughter.
The tram would stop here and people would climb the hill to the Halifax Zoo, which you can see advertised on the pub wall(picture above). This would have been when the zoo was in it's prime and tens of thousands of visitors from miles around were attracted.
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