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	Picture source: Graham Dale
The Freemens Arms was situated on the corner of Freeman Street and Alfred Street Central. This pub was closed and demolished in the early 1970s when the area was redeveloped.
My dad was landlord of the Freeman's from 1952 to 1957 then we moved down the road to The Oliver Cromwell. The Freemans had one vaults that ran the full length of the pub, a wide passage where customers stood for a drink and a best room with seating all around. There were outside toilets Both the Freeman's and the Cromwell had deep cellars cut down into the sandstone that was below both pubs. These were forty feet deep and kept the beer cool not cold in summer It was a magnificent sight seeing the draymen ,with the shipstones horses ,put the wooden hogsheads ( 56 gallons) of beer down the deep shaft with rope and pulley
Graham Dale (February 2023)
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