The Singing Chocker is called so, because before it opened people voted for a name for the new pub, and The Singing Chocker was the most popular. It is named after my uncle, Bill Walstow, now about 98 years old and still going, he was obviously a chocker in the mines and you guessed it he was always singing, hence the singing chocker. Honestly this is no bull, ask any Walstow in Castleford.