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Picture source: Malcolm Ackland

The Blue Anchor was situated on Ramshill. This Tamplins pub was sold to Friary in 1955 and closed in the 1980s. It is now in residential use.

We lived here for six months in 1957 on long leave from Tanganyika.

Angela Knisely-Marpole (December 2014)

This was with Friary Ales until 1978 when Churcher’s College (local independent school) purchased the property and turned it into three flats for staff. When the school stopped doing boarding in 1998 the property became mostly derelict and was then put on the market in 2000 when I purchased it on September 15th. I spent about 3 years converting it into a family home, but was always aware of the pub link, as I had been at the school in the seventies when it was sold to them. The rear of the property is about 250 years old and the front is about 160 years old.

Charile Smith (July 2015)

My great great grandfather, Henry Kimber ran the pub from c. 1868 to 1877 when he died there. His passing was dramatic in that he fell out of his bedroom window late one night (He had the DTs) and was discovered up in the early hours of the next morning by his daughter. He died the following day. The inquest was held in the bar, and paints the picture of life in the pub that evening. His wife, Harriet, continued to run the pub for a few years. I have a copy of the newspaper report telling the story of the inquest in great detail. I would love one day to visit the pub and see where these things happened. I would also like to know who owned the pub at that time, and how Henry was appointed.

Geoff Kimber (November 2023)

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Picture source: David Fisher