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The Bull Inn was situated at 19-23 High Street. This pub closed in 1991. A grade-II listed building. The renowned Nettlebed Folk Club was formed at The Bull Inn in July 1975.

I was 5 and it was my first stay in a hotel. My mother was having a difficult pregnancy and in need of a rest so my father booked us into the Bull Hotel, Nettlebed, 27th May to 3rd June 1944. We were taken by taxi from our home in Maidenhead to Nettlebed, which, owing to wartime petrol rationing, was powered by gas, stored in a large white bag on the roof. I have just come across the bill - £13 11s. 10d., a week's full board for the family! Mr & Mrs Walter King were the proprietors.

Michael Sprackling (December 2020)

Listed building details:

Inn. Early C18 with C19 alterations to ground floor. Grey brick with red brick dressings; plain tile roof; brick ridge stack. Complex plan. 2 storeys and attic; 7 window range, 1:5:1. Central carriage entrance. Canted bay window with flat roof and sashes to left, former doorway with flat hood on shaped brackets and 4-pane window to left end. C20 window to right and doorway to right end with C20 door. Five 12-pane sashes with thick glazing bars to first floor. Broken 3-bay pediment to centre of roof with carved brick mouldings and central half circular window. 2-light gabled dormers to left and right. One bay ends to left and right recessed. C19 tripartite sash to ground floor left. C20 shopfront to ground floor right. 12-pane sashes with thick glazing bars to left and right. 2-light C19 casement window to right below eaves.

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Name	Dates	Comments
Richard Neville	1967/1969	I was an occasional customer to this lovely old english pub The pub was then presided over by a fearsome old chap, a retired Admiral David Evans & his ceremonial sword hung above the stollaged barrels behind the bar. next door lived a bachelor gent. who HAD been a "007" & 'licensed to kill' as in James Bond whilst nearby was 'Joyce Grove' the then home of Col. Peter Fleming....older brother of Ian author of JB no less!!
Gail Bell	1957/1965	Was still at school at first, then went nursing at The Middlesex Hospital in London. Due to back injury was advised to give up and, not wanting to be out of work I took over the Bell while David and Joy Evans went on a break for a couple of days, then worked there for a short while which I enjoyed. My mother's cousin lived next door in The Small House and married Joy's sister Vici who was wonderful.

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Date of photo: 1944	Picture source: Michael Sprackling