Echo Memories - the Secrets of the Ugly Porch and Barton's Plethora of Pubs

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Pigeon fanciers get sustenance from mangosteen juice as ECHO MEMORIES stumbles blindly around Ugly Porch UGLY Porch - there can't be many finer street names in the whole of the British Isles.

Ugly Porch can be found in the North Yorkshire village of Barton. It's a small stretch of a longer street called The Porch.

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Echo Memories - the Secrets of the Ugly Porch and Barton's Plethora of Pubs

Nowadays, we think of a porch as a roofed entranceway that doesn't have complete walls.

Hundreds of years ago, a porch was the main entranceway to a church. It was roofed and fully walled. It was where people gathered before the service.

Thousands of years ago in ancient Athens, a porch - or portico - was a public ambulatory, or meeting place, where philoso...

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