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The White Hart Inn was situated on Thornhill Road.

I grew up in the White Hart from 1948 until 1960. My father Vernon Thornton was the landlord having the tenancy shared between Webster’s’ Brewery of Halifax and Wormald and Walker textile family. This was a strange partnership and I can only presume that originally the pub which was only some 50m away from the mill, was wholly owned by Wormald and Walker. During and just after the second World War, Wormald and Walker was the largest blanket weaving mill in the world later making the famous Dormy luxury blankets. My parents transformed the pub from a working mans pub with stone flag floors and spittoons in the tap room to an up market business mans pub serving cold buffet lunches, a first for Dewsbury, to the business community and traveling salesmen. The pub was subject to occasional flooding from the river Calder that ran close by mainly from water coming up the sewers and waste water pipes into the cellars where the beer was kept.

Jeremy Thornton (December 2023)

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