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Chapel Drive, ARLESEY, SG15 6PB

Just one motor vehicle on a normally busy mud track. Previously known as Paradise Row. The home in the foreground to the left was The Stag Public House which opened in 1868 and closed in 1926.

For a variety of reasons we didn't. This is typical of the houses in Arlesey. Note the light coloured brick. This is made from clay dug locally and turned into bricks by a (largely) italian immigrant workforce near to the village.

The Church is on the west side of the High Street and was opened in 1981 at a cost of £85,000.

Heavy rain caused a flash flood this afternoon. Photo taken from the junction of Chapel Drive and High Street at 3:42 pm after about twenty minutes torrential rain.

Only a little over four years on from Robin's Image and the pub has joined the remorseless and seemingly irreversible trend of closures. Even the building's Grade II Listed status has failed to save it. The English Heritage Listed Buildings website describes it thus:- "18th Century. Timber framed construction with colourwashed roughcast render. Thatched roof, half-hipped to W end. 3-room plan, one storey and attics, gable end to road. Variety of casement windows, all small with glazing bars. Eyebrow dormer to N elevation. 20th Century porch to N elevation. Red brick chimney stacks, one to ridge, one to each gable end. Single storeyed addition adjoins to E gable end, weatherboarded and thatched, with casement windows." The north elevation with the eyebrow dormer is this one. Comparing the older image with this one the other obvious change is the erection of the bus shelter in the period since 2005.

Small independent fuel retailers find it difficult to compete against the oil giants and the supermarkets and the small garage here has lost its forecourt dispensing pumps some time ago.

Right on the edge of the square, The Three Tuns is one of two pubs in it. The buildings behind are new houses. This village has seen a lot of development in the last couple of years.