There are a few Barley Mow pubs about. This one is located in Shoreditch, on the corner of Curtain Road and Rivington Street. It's a small pub and a lovely spot for a drink in summer when people spill out onto the pavement.
According to wikipedia - A barley mow is a stack of barley and also a cumulative folk song. The verses of "The Barley Mow" wish good luck to various sizes of vessels of alcoholic beverages, and lastly to the barley mow, a venerable reserve of one of beer's key ingredients. Later verses supplement this list with roles and occupations associated with beer, from brewing, to distribution, to serving in public houses, to drinking. Each verse wishes good luck to a new subject, which is then added to the beginning of the litany recited in the second line of the refrain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barley_Mow
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