Long Melford, The Green And Black Lion Hotel c.1955
Photo ref: L101005
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Photo ref: L101005
Photo of Long Melford, The Green And Black Lion Hotel c.1955

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This is the north end of Melford Green with the road to Stanstead to the left. The Black Lion was rebuilt in c1840, but stands on the site of an earlier inn of the same name, which can be traced back to c1660. On the left is Ye Olde Top Shoppe, 'high class grocery and provisions', which closed in the 1970s and is now a house. Ahead, Church Walk leads up to the hospital, rebuilt in 1847, the church and the rectory.

Memories of Long Melford, the Green and Black Lion Hotel c1955

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I vaguely remember visiting the corner shop seventy years ago. Not sure if the owners were relatives or just friends of my grandparents. If anyone knows who lived there and operated the shop in the 1940s the information would be appreciated. David, in Napa, California