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Date of photo: 1952	Picture source: National Brewery History Trust
The Bedford Arms was situated at 269 East Street. This pub has now been demolished.
Source: Ian Chapman
I lived almost opposite born in 1946. In the days of pop music we used to run inside the doors on the right of your photo to put a record on the Juke Box. I always played Ben E King stand by me. Jolly boy outings used to leave from here on a Beano to the coast. All the kids used to gather around the charabanc bus waiting to leave and the people on the bus threw money out of the windows and the street urchins scrambled to collect vast sums of coins as the Chara left. This did eventually stop due to someone getting knocked down chasing a Tanner which rolled into the road. Good times. Alan Shingles lived in the bay window house on the right of your pictures and I lived opposite on the corner of Exon street
David Yound (October 2026)
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