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‘The Old Coach House’

George Blandford Matthews built on the south side of the road, opposite the Tower building, a good-sized stables building for the horses used with the brewery drays. It stand there, one end on Wyke Road, double doors at one side fill a large arched doorway which has carved above: "G.B.M. 1884" The doors face an unmade side road which some people call ‘Drum & Monkey Lane‘, but more commonly known as Brewery Lane. The building, which is now called "The Old Coach House" is now a private residence.

The Old Buffalo pub which stood nearby on Wyke Road, opposite the brewery, was demolished later - houses now occupy the site. The present Buffalo pub, nearly 100 yards away in Lydford’s Lane, was built about 1900.

At one time there was a weighbridge at the entrance to Pound Lane, perhaps used to weigh in the goods to the brewery and for the use of other traders if they so wished.

Source - Gylla’s Hometown by Charles Howe

 

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