The King’s Head Inn stood on Towngate where the Newlands Avenue junction is now, opposite the Co-op. The inn was opened sometime in the 1700s and was indeed used in 1761 when John Garnett was recorded as the innkeeper.

It closed when the licence expired in 1926 and the building later became the Church Institute. It was later demolished, probably in 1947 when the Almshouses met the same fate to make way for modern developments.

Innkeepers, licensees and landlords:

• 1761: John Garnett
• 1822: Job Sutcliffe
• 1834: Job Sutcliffe
• 1840: John Sutcliffe
• 1853: John Sutcliffe
• 1868: William & Ann Sutcliffe
• 1871: William & Ann Sutcliffe
• 1874: Ann Sutcliffe
• 1887: Mrs Siddall
• 1887: Mrs A. Sutcliffe
• 1889: John Walker Wood
• 1894: Thomas Walker Wood
• 1901: Thomas W. Wood
• 1903: Dennis Bottomley
• 1904: Dennis Bottomley
• 1904: Alfred Wight
• 1906: Alfred Wight
• 1906: James Henry Camm
• 1906: Helena McTaggart
• 1907: Helena McTaggart
• 1907: Fred Turner
• 1911: Fred Turner
• 1911: Albert Edward Bray
• 1912: Albert Edward Bray
• 1912: John Henry Uttley
• 1915: John Henry Uttley
• 1915: Emmett Wood
• 1918: Emmett Wood
• 1918: Joe Wood
• 1919: George Edward Bairstow
• 1919: Herbert Ellis
• 1919: Joe Wood
• 1922: George Edward Bairstow
• 1922: Joseph Henry Inman
• 1925: Joseph Henry Inman
• 1925: Louis Hellowell

Information from Malcolm Bull’s Calderdale Companion