Joiners Arms

This is the sole survivor of the six, possibly seven, pubs where pitmen slaked their thirst in Hunwick’s mining heyday.

The Joiners building is shown on an 1856 map but is not identified as a pub. The 1871 census records the occupant, Samuel Goy, as a coke drawer but by 1879 he was listed as an innkeeper. The 1911 census has John Henry Watson as the innkeeper and a later landlord was “Tidler” Temby, who also had a milk round. His brother, Richie Temby, was the farmer at South View Farm, which was directly behind the pub and included the fields on which Quarry Farm Close is now built.

Joiners Arms