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 Powick, the Roundabout c1955 (ref: P108002) |
Year: 1991
44 The Village
My wife and I moved to Powick in the 1980s. Dating back to the late 1500s the whole row of (now four) houses were used by Cromwell as a hospital during the Civil war. It had no central heating and during our stay there we added that, changed the old drafty windows, put in a damp course including new flooring in the kitchen and lounge, had the roof re-tiled replaced some of the rotten roof beams and timbers and the loft was insulated with a firewall put in place between No44 and No43. Over its many years, the row had been two, three and finally four houses and sometime in the 1700s the end house No45 (Now the Red Lion) had a fire which also destroyed part of No44 thus the two fronts were changed to brick and the cellar was use to dump the rubble and was eventually filled in with its entrance (at the rear) bricked in and now visible only from the inside of the utility room in N044 as a few years after we left, the Pub owners bought No44 and used it to house their staff (shudder) and added an extension to the rear as a restaurant. The internal walls were mainly lathe and plaster upstairs and down and the main kitchen beam ran across its length and into next door No 43. The kitchen was large and about 16 x 16 feet. The back of the house was about 3 feet below the pubs car park at the rear, hence the need for a damp course, and at least one original support beam ran from the roof to below the ground and rested on a large rock as its base. The upstairs floors were the original long oak planks, slightly warped and original beams ran down the walls in all the rooms. Upstairs had been at some time converted into four rooms with the bathroom the smallest. We changed all the flimsy doors made from cheap wood, with ledged and braced solid wood and iron latches, fitting a late 18thc lock to the now new front door. Shortly in about 1990, illness and circumstance forced us to move and other planned work was abandoned. We bade farewell to No44 and its ghosts ( a few were seen ) with moist eyes. Last edited: 26/05/2008 11:00 by Fred Dager-Brown |
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Powick, the Roundabout c1955 (ref: P108002) |
Red Lion Inn Publican 1841
I am currently researching my family history and my gt gt gt gt grandfather is registered as the publican keeping this pub. his name was William Kerby and his wife`s name was Mary. The year was 1841. does anyone have any further information regarding this. Posted: 16/01/2008 21:22 by Christopher Tunstall |
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Powick, the Roundabout c1955 (ref: P108002) |
Notes from the Frith files.
This photograph shows the Red Lion pub set back from the junction of Malvern Road with Upton Road which is on the right. The traffic island was soon to disappear as this main road section became a one way system by the early 1960s. The pub still exists. Seasonal hop pickers would have used the pub as extensive hop yards existed behind the houses on the right. I lived in this part of Powick and was 5 years old in 1955. Last edited: 30/08/2006 16:30 by The Frith Memory Archivist |
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 Powick, the Village c1955 (ref: p108502) |
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This photograph shows residents waiting for the No.144 Midland Red bus from Malvern to Worcester outside the village shops. Far left is EW Bird's butchers, left is Cromptons newsagents, off picture further left is Procters general store. There were three shops in this row, all now closed. The pub sign behind the lady in the centre is for the Coventry Arms which was down the unmade short lane to the side of the butchers. This pub was one of three in the village and the first to close in the 1960s. The lane leading up the hill is Kings Lane. The tiny tree within the iron circular seat to the left of the cottage didn't last long as the road was widened. Last edited: 30/08/2006 16:31 by The Frith Memory Archivist |
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