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Date of photo: 1991	Picture source: Michael Croxford
The Case Is Altered was situated at Church End. This pub was present by 1786, closed in 1995 and is now in residential use.  In it's day it was unique.  A village thatched pub with, skittle team etc. had been refurbished in the 1960's with red Formica tables and mock brick wall paper. There wasn't a bar - just a plank over the door to the beer barrels and till (of sorts) and rows of old sweet jars.
Source: Sylvee Snowling
When I visited in 1991 there was one small room with four tables, one in each corner. There was a bead curtain separating the cellar from the bar. You went through this to get served. The Landlord was very old, wearing a three piece suit with a watch chain. Only keg beer; the kegs stood upright on the floor, and as mentioned there was a bank of large sweet jars on one wall.
Michael Croxford (April 2020)
I knew the pub well in the 1970's (legally so from 1973). The "very old landlord", Dick Peet was, at that time, the licensee's husband - the pub had come through Connie's family. At the time the Tartan bitter was no worse than the Charles Wells keg bitter available at the competing Horse and Jockey. A real attraction on a quiet evening was to listen to Dick talk about his youth, the only person in the village who could handle the epicyclic transmission on a Model T, and an expert in ploughing the local heavy clay with traction engine cable ploughs.
Neil Mitchell (June 2021)
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