Detail of the derelict Railway Hotel in Cinderford
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Detail of the derelict Railway Hotel in Cinderford
Image: © John Winder Taken: 24 May 2020
This plaque still adorns the wall of the former Railway Hotel on Station Street in Cinderford (see Image] for a photo of the building itself, and some history), closed in 2007 and derelict since a suspected arson attack in 2011. The castle motif seen here was used by the Cheltenham Original Brewery, who decorated their own tied houses with similar plaques reading "Cheltenham Ales". After the Second World War, the company acquired the Hereford and the Tredegar breweries and began trading under the banner 'West Country Breweries'; the wording on the plaques was changed to "Cheltenham and Hereford Ales" to reflect this. The "Best in the West" plaques as seen here date from between 1958 and 1967: Whitbread took over West Country Breweries in 1963 but continued to install the plaques for a few years afterwards. These are a surprisingly common sight even now, usually in buildings which are no longer pubs!
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