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Big 6, Savile Park, Halifax
Halifax
HX1 3HG
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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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Alan Winfield left this review about Big 6
The Big 6 is hidden away down streets of terraced houses,i found it hard to find after walking up from Sowerby Bridge,when i finally gave up and asked where the pub was,i found out i was only 50 odd yards from it.
Once inside there is a corridor and there are two small rooms off it to the right,these rooms have comfy bench seating but no bar,the main bar room is to the rear left,this is a smallish square shaped room which has comfy bench seating and small stools,there is another separate room to the rear which has a pinball machine in it.
There were four real ales on the bar,i had a drink of Robinsons Dizzy Twisted Sister which went down very well,the other beers noted were,Hawkshead Lakeland Gold,Acorn Forestry and one from Bad Beer Company,which i think was called Boundary Brown.
This is a really nice unaltered pub.
I had a good chat with the landlady who said the pub is privatly owned.
This pub was well worth the walk.
Pub visited 29/8/2015
On 29th August 2015
- rating: 9
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Big 6 Inn
A historic pub of regional importance and well worth a visit. Please note when visiting this pub you are made very welcome by the locals, so allow some time for a good old chat at the bar, whilst supping some very well kept ales.
Big 6 established itself as a pub in 1857, when the propery owner turned the middle terrace house into a beerhouse, with a brew shop and stables either side. The original name of the pub back then was known as the Bowling Green. This traditional pub consists of the central bar, a lounge on the right hand side with partitioned seating areas and a family room, on the left of the bar area.
Five ales on hand pump on our visit, we went for the Hawkshead Cumbrian 5 Hop and the Hanlons Firefly.
On 16th June 2015
- rating: 10
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Keith Taggart left this review about Big 6 Inn
Well worth finding. Head from King Cross towards the old infirmary. After the mini roundabout you can see some terrace gable ends across the green. On the middle one there is a faint outline of a big '6'. The pub is made from knocking together several back to back houses and is full of character. Several rotating guest ales (5 I think) always in good condition.
On 15th August 2008
- rating: 8
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