PICS BY JONI
Barley Mow Kirk Ireton
Lovely Olde Worle Pub in Derbyshire. Kirk Ireton remains what it has always been, an agricultural village. Following the Second World War the number of working farms dropped from over thirty to half a dozen in the space of 40 years. The last cow was turned down Main Street in the late 1980s, but Rowlands, Markses, Walkers and at least two families of Fords still work their farms, as, in the case of the Fords and Walkers, they have done for countless generations. Many of the former farm buildings have been adapted into houses. Much of the older part of the village dates back to the 17th century and is mostly built from sandstone, quarried locally.
One of the oldest buildings in the village is the Barley Mow pub, which was one of the last premises in the country to accept decimalization, as the 87 year old landlady, Mrs Lillian Ford did not hold with the new money. The parish previously housed at least five other public houses; The Wheatsheaf, The Bull's Head, The Angel, The Windmill and The Gate.
Barley Mow Kirk Ireton
Lovely Olde Worle Pub in Derbyshire. Kirk Ireton remains what it has always been, an agricultural village. Following the Second World War the number of working farms dropped from over thirty to half a dozen in the space of 40 years. The last cow was turned down Main Street in the late 1980s, but Rowlands, Markses, Walkers and at least two families of Fords still work their farms, as, in the case of the Fords and Walkers, they have done for countless generations. Many of the former farm buildings have been adapted into houses. Much of the older part of the village dates back to the 17th century and is mostly built from sandstone, quarried locally.
One of the oldest buildings in the village is the Barley Mow pub, which was one of the last premises in the country to accept decimalization, as the 87 year old landlady, Mrs Lillian Ford did not hold with the new money. The parish previously housed at least five other public houses; The Wheatsheaf, The Bull's Head, The Angel, The Windmill and The Gate.