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Date of photo: 2024	Picture source: Carl Griffin
The Village Inn was situated at 19 Fane Drive.  This pub closed for Covid 19 in February 2020 and never reopened. It has since received planning permission to turn the premises into flats, the conversion which has almost been completed.
I visited once to play bar billiards, frosty welcome is the best I can say. Greene King acquired Morrells at the time it was renamed The Village Inn. Back then there was a food offering. The food went, ground floor shutters were fitted, Sky sports came and went. Having moved into the village myself in 2010, I visited rarely, but the still frosty welcome brought back memories. My recollection is it was a failure to attract tenants (frosty welcome) before COVID, not COVID itself that caused Greene King to pull the plug. The photograph you have shows the first floor extension over the final two rear windows, the moved side door and the strange always empty "spare front room" left of the front door now the block's communal laundry.
David Gormley (August 2025)
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