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Big 6, Halifax
Halifax
HX1 3HG
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 9 of 10) see review guidelines
Brainy Pool left this review about Big 6
This felt like the holy grail after missing it on previous trips to Halifax, this time I made a beeline for it. A real timewarp of a pub amongst backstreet terraces, unspoilt and full of local character. Clearly very popular too with tables at a premium on a Saturday afternoon in all of the rooms, with conversations flowing between mixed groups. Beer-wise, there is a decent Yorkshire cask selection. The walk from town isn’t the easiest but along Savile Park it does offer some nice views.
On 23rd February 2025
- rating: 10
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Will Larter left this review about Big 6
What a lovely pub! It's been well described by Nev below, so I'll content myself with singing its praises. One of Camra's heritage pub interiors (two stars), with a real step back in time feel to it. Five beers on at the time of my Monday afternoon visit, with Old Mill Bitter on a solitary pump to the left, and four others in the centre (see photo). My Jericho Blonde from Settle Brewery was in tremendous condition, and expertly poured with a tight sparkler, with the appropriate period of rest before topping up (NBSS 4.5). Two millimetres short of the top, but I'm really not complaining. I walked from the Cross Keys at Siddal, which was enjoyable exercise given that it was pleasant autumn sunshine today, not sure I'd fancy it so much in the rain. A pub this good deserves a further visit, though, so I'll give it at least another go, and who cares about the weather.
On 9th September 2024
- rating: 10
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Moby Duck left this review about Big 6
A bit of a hike from the town centre so it was a taxi ride for most of the assembled crawlers, obviously worth the effort to get to this very good multi roomed pub with some added heritage interest. The beers, listed by BF below, were a good range and my Thornbridge Importance Of Being was spot on.
On 7th July 2024
- rating: 8
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Bucking Fastard left this review about Big 6
"If you haven't been to the Big 6,you haven't done Halifax" was a most correct quote from Quinno and this really is a must visit.The pub's name came from a former sister mineral water operation at the site under the name Big 6 and this stuck to the pub too.It's all very old school and unspoiled,various rooms off the corridor and a great internal Tetley's sign and Big 6 in stained glass.A small snug with a fireplace ,a seperate darts room,two other rooms with decent wood panelling.There is a beer garden over the rear lane,it's a very local kind of place and no muzak ,machines, flatscreens or other nonsense.
The bar offered Goose Eye Bitter,Leeds Pale,Settle Old Smithy,and Thornbridge The Importance of Being (NBSS 3.5) .A decent line up, this is well worth the trek from the town centre which ever mode of transport you use.
On 30th June 2024
- rating: 9
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Tris C left this review about Big 6
There isn’t much I can add to this fine pub: established in 1857 as a purpose-built beer house, an interior courtesy of brewer Ramsden from around the late ‘20s, the ‘Big Six’ leaded stained glass (see photos), added as a heritage touch in the mid-’80s by Tetley and all with a CAMRA heritage listing of ** along with a fantastic beer garden with a lovely blue bush (see photo); scenes from The Choral were recently filmed here.
I went for the Leeds Pale at just £1.60 a half and fine.
This is a must-visit pub when in Halifax.
On 28th June 2024
- rating: 8
[User has posted 2208 recommendations about 2165 pubs]
Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Big 6
Rather fabulous old terraced pub in a side alley than only has an unmade surface (with just grass beyond the main entrance) although the rear door accesses a paved street. Retains its multi-room heritage interior, with all rooms simply furnished but with some breweriana and local history pictures to add interest. Five cask ales on handpump: Old Mill Traditional Bitter, Gilded Lily from Durham, Settle's Attermire Pale, Goose Eye Black Moor and Long Moor Pale from Small World Beers (£3.60). Well worth a detour to visit.
On 27th June 2024
- rating: 9
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Old Boots left this review about Big 6
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.
On 23rd June 2024
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Steve of N21 left this review about Big 6
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.
On 22nd June 2024
- rating: 9
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Big 6
The Big 6 was my last pub of the night and probably the best of 21 pubs visited on a 2-day trip trip to Yorkshire.
The pub is located in the midst of terraced housing on some fairly awful unmade streets with potholes galore. Inside is a pub with loads of character and multiple small rooms. An entrance corridor has a couple of rooms to the left-hand side (front and rear), a bar just to the right with a tiny room just beyond it and another larger room further off to the right.
There are tiled floors all around and a number of real fires keeping it warm. Old Mill Traditional Bitter is the regular ale. Guests were Craven SPA, Nailmaker Paleton, Goose Eye Pommies Revenge & Salopian Midnight Express. There was no real cider that I could see.
Despite seemingly being well off the beaten track, it was quite busy late on a Friday evening. Long may pubs like this continue to flourish.
On 7th January 2024
- rating: 8
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Quinno _ left this review about Big 6
Terrace pub and to be honest you'd be hard-pressed to think it's a CAMRA Inventory-listed heritage gem from the outside. But it is and it's also surprisingly big, with a number of small rooms off an equally small main bar – I’m amazed that it has escaped the dreaded knocking-through craze of the 80’s. The interior is cosy, with lots of varnish wood, coffee cream shades, leather banquettes, pub carpet, glasswork and high shelves with displays of ceramics and vintage beer bottles. GBG’22 listed, with five cask at the bar and it was flying out; my Wharfedale Blonde (NBSS 3.5) and Neptune Abyss (4) were both very drinkable. Packed-out on late Friday afternoon to the extent that I bagged the last table and others had to stand and loiter. A cracker – absolutely worth the taxi fare to get out and sample. 9.5
On 25th June 2022
- rating: 10
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