Big 6, Halifax

An innocuous row of terrace houses in a back street hides this famous pub. A partly deco’ partly older pub with a multitude of small rooms, the servery in one, darts in another, sitting in the others and a garden across the way at the back. Five pulls of beers from mostly Yorkshire and surrounding counties. The corridor leading into the main rooms is decorated with interesting old documents relating to the pub, census returns, maps and letters etc. Everything positive you’ve read or heard about the pub is true so if in Halifax get yourself there, a gem.

An unassuming stone fronted pub tucked into a row of terrace houses down a series of backstreets hides an absolute corker of an interior. A multi roomed interior that looks like it has not changed in both decor or layout for many many years. The layout consists of a central corridor with two partly opened-up rooms, a lounge room, a separate games room with dart board and an excellent, cosy snug. Plenty of wood panelling and some nice stained glass between the rooms. The pub also benefits from a sizeable garden area outback which is where all the regulars, who have seen the interior all before, had chosen to go largely leaving the inside for us who hadn’t. The small serving area has five hand pumps and for our visit the Old Mill Traditional Bitter house ale was reversed leaving Goose Eye Brewery Bitter, Leeds Brewery Pale Ale, Settle Brewery Old Smthy Porter and Thornbridge The Importance of Being as the available guests, and the Leeds Pale was very good. This is not the easiest pub to get to if you are on foot. There are a couple of intermittent bus routes out of Halifax that can get you close, but being a group of us a taxi for four was £6 from central Halifax which works out cheaper than four single bus tickets. You can walk in in 15 to 20 minutes from town but this is best done from the pub back into town as it’s down hill all the way and for the couple of us who were in need of increasing our step count it was a brisk 16 minutes back down to The Three Pigeons, another corker of a pub.

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