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An inn sign dedicated to an extraordinary fellow who, along with his wife Ann, turned his Ingleby home into a pub. At the age of 16 John Thompson served in the Home Guard during World War Two. In 1943 he ran away to join the Royal Navy and he served on the destroyer HMS Myngs in the pacific and far east. After the war he went into the family's business of Market Gardening, an industry on which his locality thrived. In fact, the neighbouring towns of Melbourne and King's Newton grew famous for this branch of agriculture. The Thompson family had lived in Ingleby and Stanton-by-Bridge area for many generations and were one of the most prominent of the market garden families. Trading in Derby as a fruit merchant, John remained at Ingleby. Ann Thompson hailed from a farming family north of Derby at Coxbench and first met John, appropriately enough, in a pub. The John Thompson building has only been a pub for a very short period of its life. It was in 1969 that John converted his 15th century farmhouse into a public house. He said that the interior always had the ambience of a pub and that after returning home with friends they often enjoyed the atmosphere at home more than in the pub they had just left. Moreover, it was a period when the breathalyser was being introduced and by opening a pub the villagers of Ingleby, Stanton-by-Bridge and Foremark, none of which had a pub of their own, could just walk along the lanes to enjoy a drink with good company in fine surroundings. John Thompson is pictured here at what we believe is the Quorn hunt.
Date: 23rd June 2009 Source: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX150

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