Emma Jane Brook outside the Union Inn with young Archie Cudmore in the pram. The Union Inn (established date unknown) was a cider house which closed in the 1950s. The Palk Arms adjacent is a 16th Century free house situated on land once owned by the Palk family. In the 1891 Census, the Union Inn records a family of nine living in the house and the Palk Arms a family of ten. According to this Census the then proprietor, Thomas Loveys, was also a baker. By the entrance to the ladies room downstairs a large bread oven, 8ft by 20in. By the early 1900's the pub opening house were from 6am - 10pm. Apart from selling alcohol the pub also sold petrol, clay pipes and fishing hooks. At one time the houses had an interior door allowing patrons to move between both establishments. The Palk Arms is still a very popular pub today.

Chapman Collection