Sheila Maile… Remember Bill & Irish at Welcome. Had wedding reception at Wheatsheaf 1982
Stuart Moir… Chinese restaurant for a while.
Paul Phillips… Stuart, Still is
Ian Johnson… I do, I used drink there sometimes
Pauline Richards… It was my grandmother s local as she lived nearly opposite at 133!
Martin Richter… i went to a memorial service in the catholic church down the road for a young lad on a work placement from Africa and (suited and booted) popped in for a pint on my way home – it wasn’t busy and the bar staff served the people to my left and to my right – but not me – even though i was holding a tenner to help pay their wages
Michael Dengate… It was my local for a long time, Kay and Jackie run it, many a good night was had in there, played darts, snooker and shove penny, also card games.
Chris Fitzgerald… I used to buy sweets before school across the road from there.
Chris Hart… Wasn’t that the local cop shop hangout?
Ted Cogger… Went in there with my dad
Nicola Harvey… I remember it having a full-size snooker table in the back bar, not Off pub had that
Gill Harrod… My mum was a barmaid there – during the war! She told me she was at the back on the roof one day hanging washing – and saw bombs dropping on the town!
Rosmary Fisher… Lived in flat above in 1988 when Ted n Jean had it.