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The Rowlands, COALVILLE, LE67 8GH

The Queen's Head stopped being an inn some time in the late 19th or early 20th century.

An ancient hostelry, dating at least back to mail coach days, built in local red brick albeit now rendered, and with addition of front porch and chimney and extension at the rear.

Coleorton Moor, looking south from near The Angel Inn, with Pilgrim Cottage on the left, up towards Pitt Lane a couple of hundred yards up on the right. Going on past Pitt Lane, the Moor itself leads on to Sinope and the curiously named Botany Bay. The whole area of Coleorton, and particularly in the village itself, is literally festooned with public footpaths that criss-cross the surrounding fields enough to show the red-dotted lines quite densely on Ordnance Survey maps.

A rather poor image of The Angel Inn around 2004, on an early generation digital camera. The old mail coach has gone, and the inn now sports an extension and a new chimney at the front. Rather less large mature trees than in former years, but a lot less coal and quarry dust around, and altogether a much healthier place.

Taken from very close by the 1955 image, note the same telegraph pole on the left. Apart from the road markings, better road surface and edging, and of course, the cars in the pub car park, the scene has changed very little in 50 years.

Taken around 1955, this b&w image was photo-tinted, and now digitally enhanced. The Angel Inn is an ancient hostelry, and after this was taken, sported a full-sized yellow mail coach outside for several years, but now long gone. This 50-year old view shows how many large and mature trees there were at that time, compared to now. Also, by the 60's, the leaves of hedgerows and trees were covered in a fine, greyish dust for much of each summer, the product of several local quarries and coalmines, spoilheaps, etc.