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Inns of Sport

Author: (not credited)

First published: 1949 by Whitbread & Co. Ltd.

Format: Hardback 9½" by 6¼" with 54 pages

This book is about inns in Britain associated with sport - shooting, fishing, rowing, racing etc. The connection with Welwyn Garden City is twofold. At the front of the book is a colour reproduction of an oil painting of 1948 by Bernard Venable the subject of which is the bowling green at the Cherry Tree pub (below). Later in the book is a couple of pages of tales from pubs near Welwyn Garden city - namely The Cherry Tree, The Waggoners and The White Hart of Welwyn, and The Red Lion at Ayot Green. I bought it on eBay because the description mentioned Welwyn Garden City. Luckily it only cost me £3.

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