Former Sawyers Arms
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Former Sawyers Arms
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 24 May 2017
A former pub on Hastings Road, now a McDonald's fast food restaurant. There was a pub on the site by the 1840s, and a c.1920 photo shows a much simpler cottage-like building with a large Sawyers Arms sign on the front. The 1933 1:2500 map shows the current, much larger, building suggesting that its rebuilding may have coincided with the building of the bus garage next door (see Image) with the additional clientele it would have provided. It is thought to have closed as a pub in the late 1990s.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.375418
Longitude
0.044657