One mention of The Changing Lights pub at Folly Hall in Huddersfield and the memories came flooding in.

Old chum Peter Budd asked what it was originally called and, while it seems to have had several name changes, it was originally The Yorkshire Hotel, one of the BYB (Bentley's Yorkshire Brewery) houses.

James Smith lived there for a year when he moved to Huddersfield from Scotland at the age of six with his father. His aunt and uncle, George and Jemima Booth, ran it during the Second World War.

“They put on meals – meat and potato pie and food like that – that were great value during the war years.”

Mrs Bernice Holdroyd, 70, of Crosland Moor, used to live in Lockwood Road from 1958 to 1963 when it was known as The Yorkshire – not to be confused with the Yorkshire Victoria further down the road, she says.

The landlord at that time was Bert Maddocks, who went on to have the Wagon and Horses at Leeds Road (now Ricky's Bar). Mrs Holroyd (nee Hobson) says her uncle, Bernard McCluskey, was a regular at The Yorkshire and that she used to play with Bert's son, Tony.

Barrie Sheard of Honley knew it as The Yorkshire Hotel – “thanks to a misspent youth” - and Don Sykes adds: “It was originally The Yorkshire followed by Smiths, Vaults, Leadbeaters, Fevers, Revival Bar, Far Pavilion and Centrefold, possibly not in that order.”

Brothers Graham and Paul Rushworth recall it was once called The Commercial, as does John Bostock, and it was also an Asian restaurant called The Chutney Mahal.

One reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, says: “The Yorkshire was the venue for my worst New Year's Eve experience.

“We couldn't get into The Starlight because we had no tickets and called there on the way back to Primrose Hill. When the pubs closed at 12.30 am, we had had more than our share of beverage.”

The next day, he and his mates played district league football with colossal hangovers – and won.

David Peacock remembers The Yorkshire for a very specific reason.

“On the juke box was a record by me, Matt Silk. The song was called Remember Me and the B side was Call Me Funky. It was written by Bill Forbes and recorded at Look studios at Golcar.”

Rocky Jalota of Golcar also remembers it for musical reasons when it had changed names and become the KU club. He DJ-ed there “many years ago,” he says. The KU club closed and it became a gentleman's club called Blueberry's. He played the music there, as well.

Allen Jenkinson of Milnsbridge used the pub on a regular basis in the early to mid sixties while serving an apprenticeship to become an electrical engineer in the Building Maintenance Department of the Huddersfield Co-operative Retail Services.

“The building we worked from was in Nile Street, which ran off St Thomas's Road, by what was Brook Motors. It was only a couple of minutes walk from the Yorkshire Hotel. The parents of a fellow apprentice ran it at the time but I can't remember their names.”

Allen recalls another link, although he admits it to be tenuous.

“Do you remember a night club someone tried to start up in the old Huddersfield Co-op buildings in town called Heaven and Hell? They tried to jazz it up by saying it was in what was the old Co-op Funeral Department: it wasn't. The Funeral Department shared the same buildings with us on St Thomas's Road. That building is still there and still functioning as a funeral home but it's not the Co-op any more.”

After noting that I was battling a cold, Allen adds this advice: “The best medication for the common cold is whisky and green ginger. It won't cure your cold but, with persistence, you will cease to care about it anymore.”

I would try it, but I think I've beaten it on my own.