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Where is This ? #187

Would it help if I were to say that the Farmhouse building in the photo was replaced by a Public House in roughly 1930 and a large public housing estate was built on the farmland.

Phil
 
This sounds like Chelmsley Wood to me but what would the pub be is there a pub called the Fordhouse up that way. Dek
 
As I said earlier, we seem to be dancing all around this location without hitting it. I don't think I can give another clue without giving it away, but I will give one more before I retire for the evening. I don't know anything about the sport, but I am told that they has quite a popular bowls club at the pub that replaced the farmhouse.

Phil
 
It used to be the College Arms Lloyd. My Uncle Fred lived just up the road and drank there for years before moving on to the Yenton. It always seem funny to me to see a McDonald's in there now.
 
Bernie

You got there first, the photo is of Gospel Farm which stood as near as no matter to where the Gospel Oak Public House was built. The farm was compulsory purchased from a Mr Severn & a Mrs Wynn in 1929 for a price of £12,900 a price that had to be agreed by a court case. Nearby there stood a large Oak tree, hence the name Gospel Oak it was felled in 1840 and the trunk was that big it took a team of 16 horses to drag it away.

Phil
 
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