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High Street, SANDBACH, CW11 1FT

This building (45 High Street) was, I recall, a clothes shop until recently, but currently a restaurant. Like many of the buildings on Sandbach High Street it is listed (grade 2, list entry number 1159843); the listing attributes it as "late C16 or C17 origin but much altered".

Another change of name. This building (45 High Street) was a clothes shop until about 2013, but then became a restaurant called Folks Image It has now changed its name again to a more risque one. Like many of the buildings on Sandbach High Street it is listed (grade 2, list entry number 1159843); the listing attributes it as "late C16 or C17 origin but much altered".

The building is now a Cuban themed bar, but was most recently called Piste Image, before that a restaurant and previously a clothes shop. Like many of the buildings on Sandbach High Street it is listed (grade 2, list entry number 1159843); the listing attributes it as "late C16 or C17 origin but much altered". The weather on this October day was anything but Cuban.

These shops are the last at the bottom of the High Street before the Old Hall. As of 2017 they comprised Williams and Lowe (funeral directors), Pink Feather (fashion) and J Hopkins & Son (painters and paperhangers). Like many of the buildings on Sandbach High Street they are listed (grade 2, list entry numbers 1130356 and 1159844).

The approach from the High Street side. You can't see much of the church from this side because of the trees.

This building (41 High Street) is, like many of the buildings on Sandbach High Street, listed grade 2 (list entry number 1130354), as is the shop to its left (1130355).

A cocktail bar taking its name from the cobbled square on the corner of which it is situated, see also Image The 17th century building, address 34 High Street, is grade 2 listed (list entry 1130358) and was originally Williams Deacon's Bank.

The pub is not a new one (in fact it dates from c.1810, and is listed grade 2, list entry number 1330397). But it had recently (November 2013) been taken over by the J D Wetherspoon chain. They retained its historic name. See also Image

The pub has existed under the same name for a long time (at least 1822, possibly 1782 or earlier, see Image) but is now a Wetherspoon. See also Image

The sign on the right gives the pub's history from its origins c.1822 to it becoming a Wetherspoon pub in 2013. A document I found online listing the names of past landlords of Sandbach pubs indicates that William Lindop held the George Inn in 1782 so its origins are even older than the sign suggests, though it may have been an earlier building. In 1899 it was the George and Dragon but has reverted to the shorter name since then. Listed grade II (list entry 1330397), see Image for context.