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Slades Yard

A Memory of Wooburn Green.

In the 70's I knew Herbert Slade as a member of the Woburn Green Methodist Church. His family owned the scrapyard . His father had been the village blacksmith working at the rear of the Red Lion Pub. When the pub was refurbished, I took pictures of the forge that they had walked away from leaving almost everything. The entry door could be seen , solidly closed, in the side wall of the pub for a very long time.

Added 24 January 2017

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I am the Great Granddaughter of George Baker who owned the yard before Frederick Herbert Slade. He was known as the "Grand Old Man " of Wooburn Green, was president of Wooburn Working Men's Club and Wooburn Athletic Football Club and vice president of Wooburn Park Cricket Club. He had carried on business as a coal and scrap metal merchant and farrier in the village. He had been a generous supporter of many chariatable movements in Wooburn Green and Bourne End. He lived in Arch House and died in 1947. Does anyone remember him?
By dmdundjer on Wed Nov 15th 2017, at 5:25 pm
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Hello there. I am looking for information on the Red Lion pub in Wooburn Green, I think my Great Grandfather Henry Clarke and his wife Fanny ran the pub for a few years. Henry was also a Butcher and I think part of the pub may have been given over to this occupation.
The reason I have commented here is because you mention the pub in your comment.
I would really like to know abit more about the Clarke's and their time in Wooburn Green, and i'm hoping as they ran a pub there my be some evidence remaining of them being there.
By ndclarke on Sun May 10th 2020, at 11:17 am
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Hi, I am David Slade and my grandparents, Fredrick Henry Slade, lived in Arch House, 39, The Green, Wooburn Green. He had been the manager to George Baker and I remember his living in the house, when I was a child.
It would be good good to hear from you if interested?
David Slade
By David Slade on Wed Jan 27th 2021, at 4:36 pm
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