Photo above: scene outside the Barlow Mow circa 1904.
Laying of tram lines outside the Barley Mow c1904, note the Temperance Hotel near Station and buildings corner of London Rd and Northampton St.
The Barley Mow has a side and rear entrance in Calais Hill. Reports suggested, that the Barley Mow was built on the site of the Nags Head, but they are both recorded in a directory of 1850.
The pub became a popular billiard room during the 1870s and 1880s. Fashionably known as Wheatley’s Billiard Room, after the owner Charles Wheatley, Everards were to purchase the pub in 1885.
The easily recognisable Barley Mow, 2007, its ‘Regency’ façade added circa 1926. Much altered inside, but still survives, a credit to owners Everards.
Hard to believe this was taken in the 1960s
My great great great grandad’s pub