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This pub used to look like it had been painted with nicotine, sold grim Whitbreads, and had noting bar a friendly barmaid going for it. I is a massive improvement on what it was. It is not perfect, but the handpulled is good and seeing it is at the top of a 1 in 2 hill it is worth a chance after the climb.
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Far from inexpensive drinks, and the interior was as dead as my pint and as soulless as a zombie. Avoid. I do.
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Saw Kate Bush in here. Honest!
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called in friday evening not a bad pint of golden pippin the place was buzzing with an art exhibition outside well worth a visit.
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OK, I've been back for a revisit - and I was pleasantly surprised. Now the godawful chintz has has had a few years to be pub-ised the Bull's developed quite a decent atmosphere - what remains of the Georgian interior is actually pretty evident in places. Beers were Copper Dragon's Golden Pippin (pretty good but nowhere near as fine as the Crossroads pint at the other side of the valley)... a weird, soapy tasting Wessex Brue (I have a feeling it's meant to taste that way) and an excellent Deuchars.
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Avoid this pub, staff spent most of the time smoking at the end of the bar, then serving pints and foods without washing their hands ............. was too late by then, we had already ordered our food. Beer o.k, but this is a basic get the tourists in, get their money off them and then get them out. No character, shame as this pub has real potential, they need to stop playing on the loose connection to "Branwell".
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Found it hard to reconcile Albert_Campion's comments re this being a "Wetherspoonalike" with my experience recently. Quite a friendly place, some decent ale (Nettlethrasher was good), and some soothing folk music on one evening.
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I found the black bull to be a good place to visit,
the staff and locals to be friendly and helpful,
real ales in very good condition,guest ales changed on a regular basis, well worth a visit,
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Soulless, by-the-numbers chain pubbery. More of a Wetherspoon's type place than what is typical of others in the town.
By the way, "Branwell's chair" is a replica!
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Looks good from the outside...but the beer wasn`t much cop,Branwell Bronte`s chair is halfway up the stairs near the window.....& I can only assume he was looking (as well as going!)downhill towards The Fleece & yearning for the day when all his sisters popped their clogs & he would be let off the leash to get on the lash!.....See the Thunderers headline 1/4/1846...`Beermonster Branwells Boozy Antics-They`re Twisting His Melon`
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