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Date of photo: 1911	Picture source: Hania Franek
The Bell was situated at 25 East Street. This grade-II listed pub closed in 2011 and is now in residential use.
Listed building details:
Public House. C16 or earlier wing, front range 1729. Front range: ground floor coursed galletted stone, first floor painted brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys on moulded stone plinth. Plat band under 3 of first floor windows only. Boxed eaves cornice. Hipped roof. Rear stack to left end. Regular fenestration of 4 glazing bar sashes in open boxes. Ground floor has late C19 sashes with horns. Half-glazed and panelled door with plain rectangular fanlight under 2nd window from left. Heavy late C19 bracketted hood over door, with dentilled frieze and moulded triangular pediment. Datestone to first floor. Rear wing to left: in 2 sections. Timber-framed, tile-hung, with plain tile roof. Single bay adjoining front range 2 storeys, with large red brick stack at rear end, in right slope of roof. Approximately 2 further timber-framed bays with more steeply pitched roof, also 2 storeys, with lean-to to left side, hip to rear, and small stack. Short right return wing C19, brick and tile-hung, 2 storeys. Interior only partly inspected.
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Name	Dates	Comments
David Bowen	1969/1974
Anthony McLean	1967/1969	Charlie Ledger and his Irish wife Betty were the landlords. A pint of Fremlins county bitter was 1 shilling and ten pence . A hot raost ribes of beef doorstep sandwich was 2 shillings, only available on Tuesdays. Charlie was very slim and moved about his bars with the speed of a Greyhound.