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Welford High Street, looking North, about 100 years ago. The Inn sign behind the girl in white with a bicycle is for The Shoulder of Mutton. It is recorded that at about this time there were 16 pubs in the village. The house to the left of the girl in a dark skirt with a bicycle has gone and has been replaced by modern houses. The buildings on the right hand side of the road remain much the same today, although the Pub, The Wheatsheaf, further down the High Street has closed as has The Shoulder of Mutton. Update August 2008: R F Palmer of Lilbourn writes to tell us that the house to the left of the girl was the home of the Porter family who ran a saddler’s business from that property up to c1935. R F Palmer is directly related to the Porter family in that R F Palmer’s paternal grandmother (Lizzie Porter) was born there and also lived there until she married in 1899. The business continued through the family up to John Porter until his untimely death at the age of 61 years old (he was Lizzie’s brother) The house was eventually sold & demolished c1958. The resultant space became the adjacent pub car park. R F Palmer’s grandfather, who was a builder, designed their windows to mimic the windows in the postcard as a reminder of her own home. |
