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« on: August 23, 2006, 10:30:20 PM » |
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So - resident experts - is this the original, or has it happened since ??   |
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Anna
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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2006, 10:37:20 PM » |
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Not an expert, and haven't been around long enough even to be 100% sure this is the building I think it is... But I'd be inclined to guess that it's not "the" hole. But looking closer I could be wrong... Replacement bricks do look kinda weathered... I dunno, just saw the thread...
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tony the roundhead
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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2006, 10:46:28 PM » |
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They clearly put the arrow sign in the wrong place. Glad to see it missed the original 3x4 Georgian windows though.  |
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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2006, 11:07:11 PM » |
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Today, it is strictly one direction at a time, controlled by traffic lights.
As I came down the hill and saw the building ahead, I just knew it had to be the former Angel Inn.
Easy to see how vehicles could drive straight through the wall !
Doesn't look very lived-in these days ?
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2006, 11:26:40 PM » |
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I wonder why the window bottom right is a 4x4 - must be a later alteration. Definitely not Georgian. The rest of it looks very convincingly like a Georgian inn (especially that gap on the left if it lead to what might have been stables or latterly a pub car park.
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abby (tank girl)
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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2006, 08:28:15 AM » |
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can anybody please tell me what the heck this is all about???
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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2006, 08:30:59 AM » |
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See "Angel Delight", miduck..... |
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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2006, 08:54:27 AM » |
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aaah. for those 'in the know'................ thanks shirl  |
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Malcolm
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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2006, 09:05:30 AM » |
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I live about three miles from the Angel. Standing back, you can see the near perpendicular run of replacement bricks much higher than what, I imagine, was another door.
A pal of mine lives exactly opposite and was the first one into the building to help . Having pulled the occupant of the right hand seat out alive, he realised that the 'passenger' was, in fact, the driver, unfortunately dead. He was a Dutch truck driver in a left hand drive vehicle.
My pal did say he had never seen anyone as white in the face as Swarb. Hardly surprising.
The only time I have ever spoken to Swarb was at the 'obituary signing' a few years ago. Having told him where I lived, his only reply was "Good God!"
Everyone I have spoken to in Little Hadham who was around in 1971 speaks fondly of the band.
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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2006, 12:39:11 PM » |
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is it listed ??
Where's the blue plaque??
A building of great historical significance.................let's flit.
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« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2006, 12:49:00 PM » |
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Thanks for adding a bit of local info, Malcolm. I was going to say that the replacement bricks looked more like an in-filled doorway but you've beat me to it. Here's a couple of pics, the first one mid 70s I think, with a second doorway, the second photo is from the Angel Delight CD booklet and rather puzzlingly has another window in place of the door/brick in-fill.
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« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2006, 12:52:20 PM » |
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I'm confusing myself  Looks like the second doorway has been replaced by a window, and the area of in-fill was originally wall....so that may well be "the hole in the wall where the lorry came in". |
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"It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory."
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Jim
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« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2006, 01:31:42 PM » |
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lets split
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gower flower (Shirl)
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« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2006, 01:35:23 PM » |
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lets split
Oh Jim, you really know how to pulll, don't you? (chortle, chortle.....) |
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« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2006, 04:54:22 PM » |
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the bottom bit looks like a bricked up doorway but some of the bricks above it look like they have been replaced, so it could well be the "hole in the wall"
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Jim
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« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2006, 05:09:13 PM » |
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whera a lorry came in?
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fat Billy(Bill)
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« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2006, 05:23:03 PM » |
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whera a lorry came in?
I'm not gonna reply to that just in case Jim upsets me and I have to leave the board. he like that is Jim |
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Jim
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« Reply #17 on: August 24, 2006, 05:52:29 PM » |
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youre already in my little black book, Bill just dont push it ok  |
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