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.
1745 the recognizance orders records a Barley Mow in Leicester but no address, The lists of licensees are numerous with the earliest listing in 1747 according to Joe Regan, and that’s of Johnathan Chottle, I don’t know of this information although there is an auction at Jonathan Chottle’s Barley Mow in 1767 and another in 1772 but the auction describes it being held in Barley Mow Highcross St. So unless the LC report is incorrect we are none the wiser at the mo!
from 1815 we can see official directories and justices lists, Charles Hannam 1815, 1818 Edward Cannon, Charles Higginson 1827, (died 1847) John Greenwood 1847, John Gregory c1848, William Neale c1855, The Neals would be listed as owners of the Barley Mow, George Sturges 1863, Charles Wheatley 1875. Charles Wheatley apparently a well known entrepreneurial character who liked to engage in Pony trotting races with his own Pony ‘Polly’ where he would have side bets of £50 with his opponents.
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 and John Walker was made licensee. John Crouch (died in 1917 after a short illness) 1905, John Crouch was assaulted by William Pettitt -hawker- Oct 1915, by knocking three of Crouch’s teeth out, after refusing to quit the Barley Mow, In court Pettitt was described as a” man who drank other peoples beer” Pettitt was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment. James Bamford 1919 licensee who moved to Skegness to run a hotel Osbert House Hotel, William Talbot licensee of Barley Mow in 1822,
The easily recognisable Barley Mow, 2007, its ‘Regency’ facade added circa 1926. Much altered inside, but still survives, a credit to owners Everards.
Asaph Bell licensee in 1928, Charles Talbot c1936, in 1937 Talbot was fined £5 for selling watered down whisky labeled “fine old Scotch” The public annalist said it was 5.5% below the required strength, for every 12 bottles one bottle was water was the annalist verdict.,
1945 Archibald Lewin bcame licensee, 1950 Harry Ward, 1955 James McKenzie, 1967 Archibald Young,
Hard to believe this was taken in the 1960s
Joe Regan listed licensees from 1969-96. 1969 Horace Gunn, 1971 Sidney Worwood, 1973 John Witchard, 1974 James Newton, 1977 John Cooledge, 1987 Jonathan Pyle, 1989 Trevor Jones, 1990 Jonathon Annetts 1991 Christopher Murphy, 1993 Christopher Hill, 1995 Andrew Shaw, 1996 Kevin Nolan.
Below livery change taking place 1994.
My great great great grandad’s pub
The Wheatley family were also at the Old Blue Boar, Southgate Street and at 10-12 Castle Yard which still exists near Leicester Castle and Ruperts Gateway in old Leicester.