8 Horton Street
Town Centre
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX1 1PU
07807 136520
graystonunity@gmail.com
Modern Town Pub
The Grayston Unity opened as an independent bar in 2016 and since then has become one of the top live music venues in Halifax. It moved to its current location a few years ago, giving it a 110 capacity concert hall in the basement. Bands are on every weekend and other events include poetry open mikes, DJ nights, a film club and a monthly quiz.
The bar is one long room with a 1960s living room at the rear (!) and attracts a real mix of mostly young people but a few older cask beer fans. There’s another room upstairs and an outdoor rooftop terrace. There are 5 cask beers with Goose Eye Chinook as a regular, five craft keg taps and Victoria lager direct from Malaga.
The pub is close to the famous Piece Hall, an 18th century cloth hall which is well worth a visit. The Piece Hall has itself become a live music venue, for bigger acts than the Grayston Unity can put on, but the bar is a popular pre and post-gig venue.
The pub name may be interesting to brewery history geeks. The founder’s mother was called Grayston and she was part of the family that ran the Aaron King brewery in the centre of Keighley until 1958.
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