Oddfellows Arms (3) - sign, 24 Foregate Street, Astwood Bank
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Oddfellows Arms (3) - sign, 24 Foregate Street, Astwood Bank
Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 31 Jul 2011
The Oddfellows refers to a number of friendly societies and fraternal organisations which were set up to protect and care for their members and communities at a time before the welfare state, trade unions and National Health Service existed. Many of them still exist today, although on a smaller scale than in the past. Pubs with the name Oddfellows or Oddfellows Arms were almost certainly used in the past as a meeting place by an Oddfellows lodge. Image Image
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Image Location
Latitude
52.258762
Longitude
-1.938715
