The Square is seen here from two opposite views.
The dark coloured building on the left of the first picture is the "The Kings Arms". A few years ago it was re-branded the 'Hungry Horse' public house and restaurant to the disapproval of local residents and now bears both names.
The
'Kings Arms' used to be much further forward, level with the white building
seen in the middle of the picture, but was demolished and a new building
erected in its present place to enable the road to be widened.
Readers not familiar with the English usage of our language may like to know that a 'public house', almost always abbreviated to 'pub', is a place licenced to sell beer and other alcohol for consumption on the premises without it being necessarily associated with a meal. Many people might call it a bar, but to us a bar is the counter within a pub from which the beer is sold.
How 'The Square' got to be called this is a mystery, there is nothing square about the area!
Ann Roberson (nee Kircher) recounts that her cousin has been telling her about a circus that was held on VE day behind the Kings Arms and this is where he saw his first elephant. He worked in Johnson and Spooners' Cobblers shop next door to Goodwins and Mr Hatton the clock and watch repairers, in turn next to the Kings Arms Public house. 6118.507
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