Wells, Sadler Street 1961
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WE BEGIN the tour of the city by the Dean's Eye gate-house, the dropping-off point both for mod- ern tour coaches and ancient stagecoaches. Until about 1970, one-way traffic passed under this gate-house into Sadler Street, the main road from London and Bath to Exeter. The Dean's Eye is also known as Browne's gate, after a cobbler who lived alongside it in 1553. The east side of the street was developed after 1340, but some deeds for the west side date back as far as 1301. On the west side is the white Georgian façade of one of the earliest coaching inns: the Hart's Head, known as the White Hart from 1700. It was built on dean and chapter land, and has been an inn since 1497. The site of the Hart's Head first appears in the 1343 Commoner's Accounts; it was bequeathed five years earlier in return for prayers for 'the repose of the soul of Ralph de Lullington'.
An extract from Wells Photographic Memories.
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