The Ellowes (Spriggers Arms) Updated 21/2/03 with Jo's memories

Thanks again to local artist and photographer Gary Tilyard for this image of The Ellowes pub, now demolished like its famous namesake Ellowes Hall. Andy Cashmore says: The Ellowes pub (Spriggers) - that takes me back a bit! We sometimes popped in at lunch time from school for a half to wash down our chip cobs. The chips we bought from the chippy and the cobs we had from Arthurs opposite. My family lived in Park House Gardens at the back of the shops when I was a nipper, I used to have a matchbox containing 'coppers', and Mom would take me to the shops to buy sweets. We always went to Arthurs - he had the grocers. Don had the meat shop and I'm sure there was Meggans on the corner, the knitting shop. Jo McGovern says: The Spriggers was a closer to home Pig on the Wall pub during my school years. No questions asked kind of pub when you were 15 years old and looking for a place warmer than the local street corner to down cider and black. Many happy (and drunken) memories are stirred when I think back to the 'Sprigger' days. I've moved out of Gornal and now living in Yorkshire (though I still have the yampy accent which I will never give up), and can't believe how many local pubs have been pulled down. Pubs like the Spriggers were the sort of place that you could walk into and always find a face that you knew. Living in a City, its details like that you can sometimes miss. Although McDonalds (as I noticed on my last visit home, where the Pig On The Wall last lay) I must admit can come in handy after a three hour drive back to Yampy Land!! Please help to fill this page with your memories of the pub, its licensees, and its regulars. Email us at admin@yampy.co.uk.