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Brox Road, CHERTSEY, KT16 0HG

The club was originally started as Ottershaw Working Men's Club in 1883. It was for almost 80 years a men only club, but in 1962 women were admitted, although they were not allowed to become full members until the late 1980's. Today it is a family orientated village club, with a wide age range of members. There is a bar and also food is served, but not on every day of the week. During its history the club has also amalgamated with the local British Legion Club.

These shops front Brox Road, and include Ottershaw Dental Practice, Shawmore Estate Agents, Clikkers Hairdressers, Lloyds Pharmacy, a Londis store, and Coopers News.

As well as being a One-Stop convenience store, this is also the local post office.

The row of shops along the east side of Brox Road. The Spicy Cottage used to be a junk shop in the 1980s. The barriers were erected for gas main repair works.

The original Brook Hall, was a church hall, donated to the Parochial Church Council by Eliza Brook, the widow of the Rev. Arthur Brook, in his memory. It was destroyed by fire in the Second World War, when it was ironically being used as a temporary fire station. Shortly after the war, the present hall was erected. In 2008 it was leased by the PCC as a village hall, to a new charitable organisation, who are running it on behalf of the local community. They are presently undertaking fundraising to make improvements to the building.

The Ottershaw Society commissioned the sign to celebrate the Millennium Anniversary. This plaque is on the sign's post. For more details of the plaque, please select the maximum resolution version of this image. The sign:- Image

The sign is by Brook Hall, which is the village hall. For the background to the sign, see: Image

Off the B3121 in the north of the square, this appeared to be a church - and is marked as such on the OS map. However, it turned out to be a private residence, nicely converted(!)

With the Harvester chain, the emphasis is on the Harvester brand, with the names of the individual pubs very much a secondary matter. Indeed, looking at the building, it is difficult to see what its name is. But here, on the traditional pub sign, attached to a post, it is revealed that it is called Otter. Image Image

The Harvester restaurant/pubs are run by Mitchells & Butler, which used to be the name of a famous Midlands brewery. However the brewery was closed, and later the name disappeared. It then re-emerged to be used as the name of a company running restaurants, bars & other leisure interests, of which the Harvester chain is one. M & B beers are apparently still brewed, but currently this is done by a South Wales brewery. Image Image