VILLAGE HISTORY

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The house to the left of the girl in a dark skirt with a bicycle has gone and has been replaced by modern houses.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.

The Same View, 100 years later in Spring 1999

And another from a little further down the High Street and again in about 1900. It is of a Foresters' Parade. The Foresters were a mutual society like the Order of Oddfellows and a Masonic Order and a Catholic Order both existed at that time. The Masonic Order still exists today in USA and Canada. This is taken from a postcard sold by A J Goodfellow Stationer, Welford and printed in Germany. It bears a halfpenny stamp.

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