Lawn Community Association sign, Guildford Avenue, Lawn
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Lawn Community Association sign, Guildford Avenue, Lawn
Image: © P L Chadwick Taken: 22 Aug 2008
The Lawn Community Association run the Community Centre in Guildford Avenue. The premises were for many years a pub known as The Gamekeeper. In its early years it was a typical undistinguished estate pub. By the 1990's, as the population on the estate had aged considerably, very few local residents used the pub. It then attracted people from elsewhere whose anti-social behaviour, drug dealing, vandalism and after hours drinking caused great distress to local people. Fortunately the licence of the last landlady was withdrawn and the premises ceased to be a pub much to the delight of the vast majority of local residents. Today about the only reminder that this used to be a pub is this post which originally held the pub sign. Today it holds the Association's sign.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.54772
Longitude
-1.761569