Bell Inn, Balsham

History of the Bell Inn

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An old Balsham bakehouse with its oven, which has stood for 50 years at the entrance to the Bell Inn yard and used to provide the whole village with bread, has been demolished. . Some villagers who have very sentimental memories of it and organised a ‘save the oven campaign. Mr Arthur Gray, who lived at the Bell until 1935, used the oven, built by his father, until he built a more modern one elsewhere. It used to be heated by a furnace at the side until it was hot enough to put in the bread.
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