Family At Griffydam

My mother Jean is the daughter of Ben and Alice Stone. She grew up in the Griffin inn with her brother Benny (now deceased). Ben and Alice are long gone also, but I've been back to the area as recently as 2007. There was a relative across the street, in the house with the Monkey Tree, named Sam Dimmock, who may be the Sammy in your story? I don't think he had a mustache when I knew him, but he was older then I'm sure. He had a daughter Phyllis who lived there also, with the dog Mick. I know Sam was captured by the Japanese in WWII, but he never did talk about it. I have fond memories of playing in the main pub room a a child, but it had long since closed as a pub.