The Bridge Inn

Specialties

A traditional pub with famous homemade food, a large array of cask ales and a large, leafy, garden. The Bridge has been proudly serving customers since Good Friday 1868. Please call in for a warm & friendly welcome!

Our Cask Ales are great value with prices starting at £2.40. Three third pints can also be tried in a beer bat for £2.80. Leeds Brewery, Tetley’s, Green King, Sharp’s and Treboom Brewery all supply some great real ale.

The wide ranging menu includes many old favourites, chef’s specials, and £4.49 value meals for those with a smaller appetite. Pies are a specialty, the double and triple pie challenges topping the menu with great fanfare. Vegetarians are well catered for and be it fish & chips, roast beef, filled Yorkshire puddings, steaks, curry or pasta you won’t be disappointed.

History

Established in 1868.

The first recorded history of the collection of buildings that became known as the Bridge Inn was in 1754 when they were bought for the princely sum of £100. It would be over a hundred years before Charles Edwin Marsden, Richard Wood and William Wood as joint owners opened the Bridge Inn as a beer house.

The Bridge opened as a pub on Good Friday 1868. The original landlord was William Wood, to date he is the longest serving landlord at 33 years.

In 1899 The Bridge was bought from it’s original private owners by Leeds City Brewery Company (as seen in the attached picture). They ran the Bridge until they were liquidated in 1934 and Ind Coope and Allsopp Ltd of Burton-​on-​Trent took charge.

Joshua Tetley and Son Ltd took over the Bridge in 1970 and, although they would become part of Allied Breweries, the Pub remained theirs until 1999.

With the breweries selling their pub estates further transition ended with Warm & Friendly Ale Houses returning the pub to local ownership in 2002.

Meet the Manager

Rachel J.

Manager

Rachel Jenkinson first came here in 2000 after finishing her degree at Leeds Met. Four years ago she took over as landlady, running the Bridge for Warm and Friendly Inns, which sounds like a big chain, but isn’t. In fact, the Bridge is the only one.

«I’ve tried to build up the food and the cask ale,» says Rachel, who despite being a confirmed Mackem, seems to have her finger on the pulse of what makes a great Yorkshire pub. Rachel certainly holds the Bridge in high esteem, her wedding reception was held in the huge leafy garden back in 2004,