When I started visiting Shropshire more than 30 years ago there were three pubs in Minsterley. You can see them all in this aerial photograph from 1947.
The pub that is still open today is the Crown & Sceptre, which is in the bottom left-hand corner.
In the top left corner is the pub I knew as the Bridge Hotel, but may still have been known as The Miners' Arms when the photo was taken - they were lead miners in this part of the world. The building is still there, but it is now a private house.
And in the centre of the picture is the Bath Arms Hotel, which has been demolished and replaced with new housing.
We used to stay at the Bath Arms as children over 50 years ago. My nans sister used to run it, there used to be a swing in the garden. We lived in Craven Arms too for a couple of years.
ReplyDeleteHappy days. I lived at The Bath Arms in the early 1980s, my parents ran it as a pub and ‘hotel’. We used to have the occasional guests staying, sometimes on business connected to the creamery and sometimes tourists. It was mainly a pub though. Three pubs in a small village was never going to be sustainable as times changed. The Crown and Sceptre had the bowling green, The Bridge Hotel was a drinker's pub and The Bath Arms was something in between.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, around 1979/80 my friends nan worked at the creamery. We were about 17, and would go and stay with her. We would do the BBC, Bridge,Bath and Crown, then on to the minsterly dance at the village hall. We would finish the night getting chips from a van that would appear. I think it was either the Bridge or the Bath that did the bar at the dance, two brothers? We had such a lovely time . Happy days, and some lovely memories.
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