Title
Charnwood Railway Inn
Subject
Charnwood Railway Inn
Description
John Thorley recalls childhood at the Charnwood Railway Inn during the 1910s.
Creator
East Midlands Oral History Archive
Source
EMOHA
Publisher
EMOHA
Date
1988
Contributor
Image courtesy of John Speller. To use seek permission from https://www.spellerweb.net/index.html
Rights
You may use this item in accordance with the licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
Format
.mp3
Type
Oral History
Duration
1min 30sec
Transcription
I was born in the Charnwood Forest Railway Inn in The Rushes at Loughborough. It was the original pub built for the Charnwood Forest Railway when it was a gravity railway, it wasn’t a steam railway…it was a railway to bring the stuff down from the forest, mostly granite, to the canal… In those days of course it was a bit ram-shackled because, first of all, they couldn’t have cellars in The Rushes for the pubs because of the low water table so the cellar at the Charnwood used to be one step up at the back and everything was fetched in jugs you see, big enamel jugs to the front where there were two rooms, a tap room and a bar and a sort of a best room at the back. Then there was our living accommodation which was one room and at the back of that was the cellar… Six in the morning till eleven at night those were the opening hours…being an inn it had bedrooms but my father packed those up after a while…I had to help quite a lot in the pub…there was always the smell of beer…
Interviewer
J. Carswell
Interviewee
John Thorley
Location
Loughborough, Leicestershire
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