Dick has been pestering me to make him my cover star (it’s like being a mascot at City but cheaper), so here he is, training for a job at next year’s Octoberfest.
Note how we ruins the fun of real #PubMen who like to take their own glass back in Northern towns.
Next up was Slubbers, a life highlight, let alone the pinnacle of a Huddersfield crawl.
On the 10 minute walk from the Sportsman we passed Magic Rock, listed under Birkby in the Guide, before reaching Hillhouse and the Slubbers. Nothing gives Old Men (not you, Luke) as much joy as moaning about CAMRA’s geographical quirks.
We contemplated the best approach, then the nice local in a green top let us in via the smoking shelter.
Clearly I’d been here before, years ago, but as with the Big Six in Halifax you often take the West riding boozer for granted in your youth.
Four pints of Boltmaker, two Landlords. I nab the fourth pint, Paul nabs the window seat.
The sun shines in, as it always must when Paul is in a pub.
Paul recognises someone from the CAMRA AGM where local branches were given free reign to undercook broccoli invent new places to put GBG entries under.
We got on with saying “Mmm, wow, NBSS 4” as Boltmaker suddenly made perfect sense.
Then the Landlady came over and said “Where’d you come from ?“, both apologetic and apoplectic we’d come in through the fire exit.
It was wonderful.
I particularly like the South Korea/Japan World Cup scarf.
Somehow recognising an American accent in our midst, a friendly local popped over.
“Are you an American ?”
“Deny it Dave !”
The ensuing conversation touched on the Kentucky Derby, Dave’s life story and probably the best way to cook broccoli.
THAT’S why people go to pubs.
We went out the right door this time.
retiredmartin 
A gorgeous northern boozer. How pubs should be like.
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It really should be better known and used.
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I miss Free Houses with prominent brewery signage and livery. There can’t be many left.
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Quite a few Greene King houses gone free and GK signs embedded in wall but that Slubbers is certainly indistinguishable from Tim Taylors 😊
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Yes but those Greene King ceramic plaques by Doultons of Lambeth and dating back to the 1930s were part of the fabric of the building and meant to last longer than ay painted pub sign.
http://www.breweryhistory.com/Defunct/DefunctimissiveCeramicPlaquesFeb2004.htm
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There’s nowt like a pint, after ‘ard day on t’ slubbin’ machine, our lad.
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Slubbin’ is a local term for Autovaccing, surely.
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https://www.thefreedictionary.com/slub
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Don’t you thesaurus me, Etu 😱
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There’s another of those pretty West Yorkshire names, in the stream which flows near to the Slubbers, incidentally.
“Grimescar Dike”
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“Paul recognises someone from the CAMRA AGM”.
He recognised me first and it’s Neil Leeson who for nearly thirty years has chosen the nation AGM venues.
I never knew where he lives but it’s Huddersfield and close to the Slubbers.
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It’s them rolled up Jim Reeves me old flower, and no mistake.
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So many lovely photos in this one. I couldn’t help noticing in the “study in satisfaction” photo that one of the three drinkers was moving at a faster pace than the other two– perhaps his was NBSS 4.5? 😉
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Actually, that was my glass (😱). I was drinking at a notably faster pace but the rest were five pubs up.
Yes, the Slubbers is gorgeous.
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I gave a much abbreviated version of my life story.
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I think that pubs of that shape, including the Brunswick and the Baltic Fleet, are referred to as being of a Flat Iron shape but that top picture reminds me of the ship on the Titanic pumpclips.
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