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The Plough Inn was situated on West Street. This pub waS A popular wartime haunt for American airmen and soldiers from around Barkston Heath airfield. It is now used as a private residence. It was visited by Laurel & Hardy in 1947 - Stan Laurel's sister and husband, Olga & Bill Healey were the publicans at the time.
I am currently researching and writing a book in my Pride Series with a working title Pride of the Clyde by Derek Niven. It is based on the family histories of celebrities who were associated with Glasgow. Chapter 2 is Stan Laurel, whose family lived in Glasgow for a few years and his career started there in the Britannia Panopticon, which still exists and runs Laurel and Hardy nights. I was interested to see on your site that Laurel and Hardy visited the Plough Inn in Barkston in 1947, run by Laurel's brother-in-law and his sister Olga. In fact, his father Arthur J Jefferson, (b. 1862) a retired theatre manager, 86, died in the Plough Inn, Barkston on 15 January 1949 and buried in barkston and Syston Cemetery. He left his effects of £203 3s 11d (less than £8,000 today) to his daughter Beatrice Olga Healey.
John McGee (July 2025)
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