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The Nelson
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Picture source: Movement80 |
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The Nelson was situated on the High Street. This pub closed in the 1950s and
is now used as a private house called 'The Old Nelson'. |
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My grandmother, Mary Lacey was
landlady of this pub probably around the last years of WWII, and/or shortly
thereafter. So she was one of the last, given that the pub closed in the
mid-fifties. She was born Mary Bass, and was one of eight children born in
Chinnor.
My mum had one lasting memory of the pub that she told me about several
times. She hated to cook, and (candidly) wasn’t very good at it. One night a
patron asked her for hot chocolate. She made it (not sure if they had
instant in those days!) and was told that she was a “Bonnie wee cook”! She
never forgot it.
My granddad, Geoff Lacey caught flak from Gran until his dying day because
during their tenure he spent most of his time playing dominoes, and was
definitely not landlord material in her opinion. |
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Linda Russell (July 2014) |
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The last landlords of
this pub were Gwen and Des Ginger my mum and Dad. They were there from about
1953 to 1956, when it was sold as a house. My Grandparents lived over the
road in the high st. Their name was Bass, and they were uncle and Aunt to
Mary Lacey, who were the landlords before mum and Dad, when the Laceys moved
to Gillingham in Kent |
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Deborah
Luker (August 2019) |
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Celia Martinschledde |
1949/1956 |
I lived in the small cottage(left
hand side of the building) attached to this pub until I was 9. The
cottage was tiny with 2 bedrooms, and we were a family of 4 children, my
parents and my grandmother. I remember the pub with all the small rooms,
and when the pub was closed and sold as a complete package for about
£1,000 in 1957/8 |
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Picture source: Deborah Luker |
