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Date of photo: 1996	Picture source: Michael Croxford
The Carrier Inn was situated on the High Street. This grade-II listed pub closed in 1972 and is now in residential use.
I had my first pint here, aged 14, in 1967. My father took me there. It had been his regular haunt in his young days as he had been born and brought up in the village, not leaving until he joined up in 1939 aged 23. In 1967 the landlady was an Irish woman called Birdie. I think she was a widow. My grandfather visited the Carrier almost every evening of his adult life. He was born in the 1880s and lived well into his eighties. The Carrier was very basic with long wooden table and benches. Beer was drawn from a barrel and poured from jugs. The pub just up the road, then the King’s Head, later the Dial, was much ‘posher’. It had nice tables and chairs!
David Hammond (August 2020)
Listed building details:
Formerly the Carrier Inn, now renovated. C18 timber-framed and plastered building. One storey and attics. Casement windows. Roof thatched, half hipped at the north and south ends, with a central chimney stack and 2 dormers.
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