Towcester, The Brave Old Oak c.1960
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The Brave Old Oak pub with its fake timber-framing is a Phipps House here, and had just been taken over by brewers Watney Mann. Note the characteristic Watney's sloping lettering and the barrel over the inn sign - the symbol of the then voguish keg bitter that so nearly was to destroy real ale, in my opinion, in the 1960s. The chemist next door is now a bank. 'Phildelphus Jeyes' was a local business then, a branch of the chain set up by Philadelphus Jeyes of Northampton - the inventor of the disinfectant, Jeyes Fluid.
An extract from Northamptonshire Living Memories.
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