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Date of photo: 2005	Picture source: Alan Chappell
The County Arms was situated at 189 Newport Road. This pub has now been converted into flats.
My grand parents Anne and John (Jack) Elliot, and then my parents George (Joe) and Edith (Jen) Elliot lived in and ran the County Arms during the pre-war period until just after WWII. I do not know why they gave it up at that time. I was only five or six years old at the time. My older and late brother Clifton Elliot was born on the third floor of the pub in 1934. My earliest memories of The County Arms are during WWII when I was about 4 or 5 years old and the large hall on the second floor at the rear of pub ( I suppose that would be called the first floor in Britain) which we called the dance hall, was taken over as a billet by the US military. The garage below became their kitchen. I just remember that they were a good source of candy and chocolate at a time when all good things were scarce and rationed. As kids we would greet any American soldiers we encountered with the line “Got any gum chum? “ They were a friendly lot and could always be counted on the oblige with a goody of some kind. During the war my father “Joe” was in the RAF so my mother ran the pub. After the war my grandparents continued to live close by at 169 Newport Road. My parents moved to Northampton where we lived until we emigrated to Canada in 1952. I passed by the pub in 2017 on a visit to England hoping to enjoy a nostalgic pint, and was disappointed to discover that The County Arms was no more.
Geoff Elliot (April 2022)
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Date of photo: 2013	Picture source: Alan Chappell