Nonington’s Alehouses, Beer Shops and Pubs

  • Church House, once The White Horse alehouse. In the 1830’s it became the home of the Morgan family who were blacksmiths and vets. In the 1930’s it became the village dairy owned by Abbot Bros.
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    Nonington Forge in what was then called Church Street [now Pinner’s Lane], late 1920’s, St Mary’s Church is in the background, Church House is off to the right.
  • Phoenix Cottages, once the Redd Lyon ale-house. The elderly couple are Mr & Mrs Jarvis, the woman on the left is believed to be their daughter. Mrs. Jarvis and her grand-son, Colin, moved to Holt Street when the cottages were demolished in 1959
  • Phoenix Cottages a few year before they were demolished. The lady with the dog is Mrs. Jarvis, the last tenant.
  • Holt Street: the old Walnut Tree alehouse, on the left, as it was in 1929. Now a single storey dwelling.
  • Walnut Tree cellar-the ramp from the road to roll barrels into the cellar
  • Walnut Tree cellar-the bottom of the ramp, the entrance is off to the left
  • Walnut Tree cellar entrance
  • Walnut Tree cellar door entrance to the house
  • Walnut Tree cellar roof corner
  • Walnut Tree cellar roof
  • Holt Street pond opposite The Royal Oak 1900-1910. Taken from a glass plate negative from around 1910 the picture shows the pond across the road from the Royal Oak
  • The Royal Oak, 1920's
    The Royal Oak: around the time of the First World War
  • The Royal Oak in the 1940’s
  • The Royal Oak in the 1950's, land-lord R. Reynolds
    The Royal Oak:pre-1951
  • The Royal Oak corner:1950’s
  • Royal Oak:1950’s
  • The Royal Oak, winter 1960
    The Royal Oak, winter 1960
  • The Royal Oak sign carved by Steve Finnis in the 1990’s