The Malt Shovel - Barkby, Leicestershire
Posted by: SMacB
N 52° 40.959 W 001° 03.680
30U E 631050 N 5838732
Pub sign hanging outside the Malt Shovel pub in Barkby.
Waymark Code: WMQQ6F
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/17/2016
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Apparently there has been a pub on this site since 1271 [Source - (
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The pub used to have a large copper in the kitchen for brewing ale in the 1900's. The sign depicts a brewer shovelling malt, which would be used in the brewing process.
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