Blacksmith Arms

A Memory of Two Dales.

My grandfather, Walter Walker, used to own the Blacksmith Arms public house in Two Dales which has now been converted into cottages with houses built in what was the garden and orchard. My father was brought up in the pub and left the village when he married my mother, an evacuee from Croydon. As children, my brother and I returned to Two Dales every year for our summer holidays;
I still have very fond memories of the village and the friends I made there. My wife and I and my children, when they younger, returned many times to Two Dales just to rekindle happy memories.
Things have changed in the village since my childhood days, but on our returns I still manage to purchase some bread and teacakes from Hayes's bakery. It's still in the village after all these years having moved from their original premises to what was the Co-op warehouse.