BAR staff from two York pubs have created their own version of Calendar Girls to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

More than a dozen barmaids and barmen from the Yorkshire Terrier, in Stonegate, and the Last Drop Inn, in Colliergate – both York Brewery pubs – stripped off at the brewery for pictures to be taken for a special calendar.

But instead of using buns and scales to protect their modesty, they used strategically placed beer mats, bar towels, pumps and pint glasses.

One of the organisers, Kaleigh McLinden, 22, who works at The Terrier, said a female photographer had taken the pictures for the 2011 calendar.

“It was very good fun,” she said.

“We were just laughing from start to finish.” She said 500 were being printed initially and would go on sale from the beginning of April at a cost of £5. It would be sold at the pubs and the brewery, and also a newsagents next to The Terrier. She said she and Cass Donato, a fellow barmaid at The Terrier, had originally planned to raise funds by getting sponsorship to give up smoking, but that flopped.

They had then had the brainwave of creating the calendar, with their colleagues and the brewery giving enthusiastic backing.

The funds would go to the Mercy Corps, which had been in the thick of work to assist people in Haiti, which was devastated by the massive quake. She said businesses had agreed to sponsor the calendar.

Kayleigh has told previously how two barmen, Jack Baldwin and Neil Sherman, were also raising money by taking part in the Mongol Rally, going through France, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia and Kazakhstan, en route to Mongolia.