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This little specimen was found in the bushes outside the Pence Union Building on the Cheney Campus of Eastern Washington University.
Green Dragon Inn, Hardraw.Hardraw is old English for Shepherds dwelling, and the land once formed part of land owned by the Cistercian Monks, who settled here before moving to Jervaulx Abbey in lower Wensleydale. They kept a Grange (French word for a barn ) at Hardraw and possibly a small chantry chapel.
In times of old the early Northern (Yorkist) Kings would rally their troops at certain known locations: ‘Meet at the banner of the Green Dragon near the waterfall’ for example. It is possible that this is where the pub's name comes from and indeed the present Inn sign depicts a green dragon and a small white rose.
The public bar area perhaps dates to the fourteenth century.
Rog and I visited the Crestwood as part of a Kingswinford area pubcrawl in June 2016. The pub is situated on the corner of Blenheim Road and Lapwood Avenue.
A 16th century country pub - nestling between two farms in the tiny hamlet of Fickleshole, in the North Downs countryside,
notes on the pub quiz at the Salmon & Swan, Alfreton. The quiz wasn't content with being often difficult or obscure; it was also scored on a mind-boggling bingo system. If anyone thinks they can win the quiz on the basis of this picture, send a stamped addressed jiffy bag and I will think about giving you the two bottles of Becks that I won at the end of the night by proposing, not quite accurately, that John Wayne had been born in 1909.