The Flouch Inn, Stocksbridge

The sad demise of the Flouch Inn – 

https://wwwapplications.barnsley.gov.uk/PlanningExplorerMVC/Home/ApplicationDetails?planningApplicationNumber=2017%2F0989

Demolition of this pub has been on the cards for a while now. Oout in the Wilderness of the Pennines, the Flouch is called so because its former name of The Plough became weathered and Plough Became Flouch with the loss of a serif or two.

The demolition will make way for houses; an entirely unsustainable location, and the canabalisation of what could be a great pub  as part of the chain of cyclist stops found in this area.

Also being demolished is

Silkstone Working Men’s Club –

https://wwwapplications.barnsley.gov.uk/PlanningExplorerMVC/Home/ApplicationDetails?planningApplicationNumber=2017%2F0556

Not so pretty…but still a meaningful building