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The Gardener's Arms pub with a painted sign on its brick wall, featuring sash windows and two tall brick chimney stacks.

The Gardener’s Arms (MoC142A.71)

440 Newmarket Road, Gardener’s Arms

History of the Gardeners' Arms

1913 Garderners’ Arms

George Powter, brewer


1962

Charles V Clark

Two-storey white brick corner building with a Greene King sign above the door and a small pub sign on the front wall.

Gardener’s Arms (MoC142A.71)


c.1980 Doug Royston told ‘Memories of Abbey and East Barnwell’ [circa 193]:

My mother’s mother – my grandmother – together with my grandfather, had an allotment by the railway oine at Barnwell Bridge, where he grew all the vgeteables. The Honda garage is there now; in fact the site of that garage also covers the site of the old Gardeners’ Arms public house, where grandfather spent some of his leisure time …. the Gardeners’ Arms which he always referred to as ‘Biddles’ because the proprietor was called Bidwell.

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