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496</div></div><div class='text     '> <p>The Perky Peacock is situated in Barker Tower, on the banks of the River Ouse. This medieval building was built in the 14th century and, over the years, has been used for many different purposes.</p> </div> 
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507 <h3 class='subheader     font-italic  '   >The Barkers</h3> 
508 </div> <div class="cell small-12 medium-auto "> <div class='text     '> <p><p>Barker Tower was most likely named after the 'Barkers', who extracted the tannins from oak bark to be used in the tanning of leather.</p>
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518 </div> <div class="cell small-12 medium-auto "> <div class='text     '> <p><p>The tower's original purpose was as a toll tower; a huge chain stretched across the river and connected Barker Tower to Lendal Tower in order to control traffic on the River Ouse.</p>
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569 </div> <div class="cell small-12 medium-auto "> <div class='text     '> <p><p>We, Shirley and Richard, are the current owners of The Perky Peacock, and have recently taken over the Café after many years living in Bahrain.</p>
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.