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White Hart and Bridge End
Here are two aerial photographs of the White Hart, which were kindly loaned to
me by the landlord, Sam Thacker. They are exactly fourty years apart, to the
day:
1962 and 2002. The pub has a history spanning four hundred years - and it has
a ghost. In the old shot, we thought that the the white
car was a
Hillman Humber and the black one in the pub car park was a Rover.
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In the modern picture, 'The Bridge' public house next door to the White Hart, is closed and boarded up. The pubs page shows them from ground level. A pelican road crossing and traffic lights have replaced the old zebra crossing but the red telephone box is still in place.
The small top left building is a chip shop in both pictures, although it was rebuilt a few years ago. In the old picture, the wooden shack next to the crossing was a bicycle shop, which was handy for the schoolies. In the old 'wireless' days, it was common for people to take their accumulators to the shop for recharging. It is now a small car park for the Indian restaurant.
This is a view from 1973, showing the old row of houses on Wentworth Road and Mr Taylor's blacksmiths, on the corner with Talbot Road. Mr Taylor died a few years ago but he was known to be annoyed by the use of an old nickname. In deference to his good name, I won't repeat it here. The other view is a barbeque by the White Hart, date unknown.
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