Friday 1 June 2012

I have had one person write in stating that he had never heard of the Cottage of Content, nor the Three Tuns, and that he had drunk in the village all his life, and that I was talking absolute bunkum. I am not surprised he had not drunk in them - perhaps he should have lived a wee bit longer, as these two beerhouses existed in the Victorian era - they both appeared in the 1892 Petty Sessional Retruns for premises purveying alcholohic beverages in the town and were gone before the First World War. Just because you had not heard of them does not mean that they did not exist!!