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Picture source: Shayne Harrison

The Fir Tree was situated at 299 Lynchford Road, close to North Camp station and the Old Ford pub. Due to its proximity to the station and nearby barracks the pub was popular with soldiers and opened in 1862. The first landlord is reported to be Mr. L. Monoghan and he announced in the local press that he had obtained a wines and spirits license and could sell a wide variety of beers. The Fir Tree was reputed to have been used as a ticket office for the horse drawn tram service that ran from North Camp station to Farnborough mainline station via North Camp village. Part of the pub's car park was removed to make way for the then new A331 Blackwater valley road in the early 1990s and the pub eventually closed in the late 1990s. The pub building still exists and is now part of a builder supply merchants.

I used to go there regularly in the early 1980s when I served in the Army at the old Mons barracks. The landlord in those days was a chap called Tonym a big fellow with ginger hair; his wife used to serve trout and chips and great sausage butties. If I remember right he was ex RAF. A great pub always full of life but it was very small.

David Luscombe (October 2013)

Remember it well from my time with the Duke of Boots 75 / 76 and the landlord described fitted my memory of a big ginger behind the bar , we kind of took the place over as the unofficial Dukes band club, far too many drunken nights playing spoof and as long as we managed to get the key in the ignition then we were sober enough to drive home, Salananca Park opposite the polixe station. Also remember drunken afternoons horse shoe tossing in the back garden, not much success due to spoof, hey ho ! mis spent youth 1976 - blazing hot then we all shipped out to Minden and new watering holes to be discovered.

John Taylor, band of the Duke Of Wellingtons (August 2022)

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Name Dates Comments Tony Bunce 1974/1986 I held the licence for 12 years. David Whitehead 1980/1992 Was my Dads “Digger” local for many years when we lived in Ramiles park. Also started my stag night there in 1987.

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Picture source: Daniel Boys

Picture source: Daniel Boys