Old Inns and Taverns
Y ES, these old-inns are to be found dotted over every part of England. It doesn’t much matter where you go you will surely find that the inn of yesterday has its sign out to-day. A great number of these are linked up with some famous or infamous historical person, or event, closely associated with the district. Go to the Rose and Crown Inn in the Essex village of Hempstead, for instance, and let mine host tell you the story of Dick Turpin, who was born there, He will show you with pride the hole in the ceiling where Dick Turpin was in the habit of listening to travellers relating their stories of recent highway robberies. As a result of this eavesdropping, Dick Turpin shaped his rather doubtful career. Near the stream a short distance away, the landlord will show you where Dick -had his cockpit. The site is now marked by a circle of trees. Then there is another old inn at Hadley, which boasts .of the Royal Arms pre-
sented by Queen Elizabeth as a token of her visit to Worcester. One of the chief attractions of this inn is its 400-year-old bowling green. Not being a bowler, I cannot say whether the rules of the game to-day conform to those of 400 years ago. Among the many rules of. the game to be seen at this inn, I have chosen this one as being
rather unusual: "A bowler using profane language, shall be dragged over the green on the seat of his breeches and pay a fine of two shillings for the benefit of the poor of the parish." Perhaps some modern bowler. might enlighten me on the point.("Just Ye Olde. Inns and Taverns." Major F. H. Lampen. 2YA, January 22).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 139, 20 February 1942, Page 5
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298Old Inns and Taverns New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 139, 20 February 1942, Page 5
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