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The Slubbers' Arms

1 Halifax Old Rd, Huddersfield HD1 6HW, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England

Submitted on February 11th 2007 by straysider.

Schedule:

Monday


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The Slubbers' Arms

This is an irish tunes session, with banjo, accordian, mandoline, fiddle and guitar usually present, plus often uilleann pipes and other passing instruments. Reliable most Monday nights from 9.00 - 11.30pm, less reliable Summer months. Good standard of playing, but not too fast.

Kevin

# Posted on February 11th 2007 by straysider

Sounds good. But what's a slubber?

# Posted on February 12th 2007 by Bren

It's from cotton manufacture - "The final stage in the carding department. A slubber hand-operated the slubber machine, which received processed cotton from the cards and formed it into roving. The "speeder" was a device in the slubber machinery, often operated by a separate worker, which expelled the roving from the machinery in long coils."

# Posted on February 16th 2007 by E

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