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Picture source: Ian Chapman

The Woodman was situated at 105 King George Street. This pub is now used as a private house.

I can recall this small pub from my childhood, and confirm that it was located as in the more recent photo in your post, the house with bay windows. My Grandfather Stanley Brown and his wife Elouise, lived obliquely across from 105 at number 118 (seen in a street view now painted white with a yellow door). My father and his two brothers grew up in that house and I, as an infant, used to visit regularly shortly after the end of WW2. I would have been around six years old. Grandfather was a plumber by trade, and fancied himself as an entertainer. He would regularly in his words "Put on a turn across the road" and I, being a minor, would be sneaked into the Private with Grandma to view his performance. Sadly, I do not have any images to send you as most of the paper memories of my growing up in England were lost during a flooding episode some years ago. I do not recall exactly when trading ceased at the Woodman, but I cannot remember it continuing to operate into the fifties. I am now 81 years old, but in great health, and as sharp as a tack.

Robert Brown (October 2021)

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