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Caption For Elsenham, Fullers End C1960

The two pubs featured here are The King's Arms (far left) and, up the hill, The Barley Mow.

Caption For Wells Next The Sea, The Quay C1955

This was originally constructed in stone in 1853 as a 250-yard-long working quayside for vessels trading in barley, linseed cake, corn, timber, salt, malt and manure, rather than for holidaymakers

Caption For Spilsby, The Terrace C1955

The barber's pole (centre right) has also gone.

Caption For Bebington, The Village 1936

Irwin's Grocery shop is now occupied by a barber's, a ladies' hair salon and an electronics shop.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Bridge From The Church C1960

On the south bank of the river is the Barley Mow, which is featured in Three Men in a Boat.

Caption For Colyton, Queen Square 1907

Note the barber's pole advertising the 'Haircutting, Shaving, Shampooing Saloon' on the right.

Caption For Richmond, Trinity Church And Castle 1913

Outside King & Son (centre right) can be seen their saddle-horse, and beyond is the barber's pole of W Myers, who succeeded hairdresser Charles Todd, visible in 32280 (page 18).

Caption For Richmond, Trinity Church And Castle 1913

Outside King & Son (centre right) can be seen their saddle-horse, and beyond is the barber's pole of W Myers, who succeeded hairdresser Charles Todd, visible in 32280 (page 18).

Caption For Histon, High Street C1965

We can see the sign of the Barley Mow, which is set back from the street.

Caption For Willingham, High Street C1955

A barber's shop has replaced the radio shop on the left, and the Willingham Auction Rooms now occupy the adjoining building.

Caption For Marske By The Sea, Redcar Road 1906

The shops in the foreground include a grocer's on the corner, and next to it is a barber's shop with its distinctive pole.

Caption For Ipswich, The Docks 1921

The main cargoes brought into Ipswich were grain, barley, coal and timber.

Caption For Saffron Walden, Myddleton Place C1965

There are still louvered windows on the ground floor, remnants of the time when the building was a malting with fires beneath the upper floors to help the barley laid out there to ferment.

Caption For Histon, High Street C1965

Just past the Village Green, the Boot (left), one of the oldest pubs in the village, and the Barley Mow beyond, are both still trading, although the General Stores between them has been demolished to make

Caption For Clifton Hampden, Village And Church 1890

This photograph, taken from the east bank of the river, south of the Barley Mow pub, manages to exclude George Gilbert Scott's rather fine 1864 seven-arched brick bridge over the river.

Caption For Blaenau Ffestiniog, Church Street 1901

A striped barber's pole projects out over the street, and just beyond it the Temperance Hotel and W J Penny, who sells ales and spirits.

Caption For Clifton Hampden, The Barley Mow Inn 1890

The Barley Mow is one of the most famous and historic inns on the Thames.

Caption For Redruth, Fore Street 1898

Opposite, a barber's pole advertises a humbler shop.

Caption For Bewdley, View From The Bridge 1956

Further downstream, weir pools have became the haunt for barbel, which were introduced into the river in the 1960s.

Caption For Coltishall, A Cornfield 1902

Today so much of East Anglia's beautiful countryside is in the hands of more exploitative 'barley barons'.