Magic Buzz

Aliens!

The crop circle "stuff " hasn't been removed as such, it just comes and goes from the noticeboard and is put up by those interested in the subject. As the 'season' gets underway, more info / pictures are added. Made by clever students with bits of string, that's not what I heard!

........."bit like a Camden Town boozer transported to Wiltshire by aliens". That probably sums it up very nicely. On the original question of being a tenanted pub, that has always been the case. Even the Lottery funded "community group" were tenants, they did not own the pub, but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise given the size of their grant. Music is now on every Saturday night at 9pm and a new dining extension has just opened in part of the new barn. When completed the main part of the barn will be used as a visual and performing arts space, all funded by the pubs owners, who have actually owned the Barge since the days of Adrian and June Potts, the tenants for seventeen years. But some things don't change - interesting UFO / Alien conference being held there today.

The Barge has traded for 200 years and in it's time has had many tenants, some great, some bad and some wrong'uns. The Lottery funded community project, despite trading for two years and turning over in excess of £1 million failed to register and account for VAT and are being investigated by HMRC. However, life at the Barge will go on, although not for the project group, Honeystreet Ales, the landlords, will be taking the pub back in house, completing the unfinished refurbishment and will be re-opening the pub in due course.