The Griffin Inn Whetstone
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The Griffin Inn Whetstone
Image: © John Kingdon Taken: 18 Jan 2022
The Griffin prospers as a gastro pub on Whetstone High Road, once the Great North Road. It was a Coaching Inn originally from the seventeenth century I understand. Diagonally opposite it to the camera's right and out of picture is the soon to be demolished 1960's concrete office block that has become an eyesore. I have also uploaded a photo of that building. That the old building survives and the new one goes under perhaps is the exception to the economic rule of creative destruction as expounded by Joseph Schumpeter to explain the workings of capitalism. In front of the blue car in the photo the horse trough is not original and the 'whetstone' was no such thing. Perhaps it's creative heritage capitalism?
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Image Location
Latitude
51.630164
Longitude
-0.174604
